Gardner News

Debbie Ahti, 46, of 10 Lamartine St., Apt. 1, Worcester, charged with aggravated assault and battery, dismissed at victim's request, filed.

A second suspect who was wanted on a charge of armed and masked robbery in connection with multiple robberies in Fitchburg, Leominster and Gardner, was arrested Monday in Fitchburg.

A man wanted in connection with a bank robbery last week has been arrested, according to police.

The pagan community has had differing attitudes towards the LGBT community, over the decades and over the millennia.

Ashburnham Boy Scout leader accused of child porn ASHBURNHAM - A 75-year-old Boy Scout leader was arrested yesterday on child pornography charges.

Two corrections officers working in the mailroom at the North Central Correctional Institute felt a burning sensation in their lungs while processing U.S. Mail Thursday morning, according to Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction.

A man wielding a knife fled on foot after robbing the Athol Savings Bank branch on Timpany Boulevard Wednesday morning.

GARDNER, Mass. - After being nominated for 13 TAMY Awards, the cast of Algonquin Regional High School's fall musical, "Pippin," did not return empty-handed. Algonquin took home three TAMYs on May 20 from the Sixth Annual High School Musical Theatre Awards at the Theatre at the Mount in Gardner.

Police responded to an armed robbery at the CVS store on Nelson Street just after 5 a.m. Tuesday, according to Sgt.

Local motorcycle riders are putting their boots on this Sunday for the annual Memorial Ride that organizers hope will top the 600 who rode last year.

A nearly five-hour standoff with police ended peacefully for a Center Street man, who had barricaded himself in a home after making threats against police Thursday morning.

Clementine A. "Tina" Folia, 86, of Ashby, formerly of Clinton and Harvard, died Tuesday, May 15, in the Rose Monahan Hospice Home, Worcester, after an illness.

Located in the rear of the school building, the 90x30 foot structure is chock full of all varieties of hanging baskets, vegetable plants, ground covers, annuals, perennials, herbs and an assortment of garden ornaments and birdbaths.

Fining minors for possessing cigarettes, banning tobacco sales in pharmacies, and informing the public about the benefits of breast-feeding are among 265 ways senators are trying to change a health-care reform bill that was debated Tuesday.

The Greater Gardner Community Health Connections clinic will expand with the addition of an on-site pharmacy later this year, thanks to a $396,000 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant awarded earlier this month.

Theatre at the Mount announced the nominees in the 2011-2012 TAMY Awards High School Musical Theatre Competition.

With cracks running through tennis courts big enough to step in, brush filling and trees limiting space, basketball hoops broken and backboards missing and not much available to address modern needs, Mayor Mark P. Hawke is looking to renovate and reimagine the city's parks and playgrounds.

The Stratton Players will present John Cariani's "Almost, Maine" at their temporary theatre at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 923 Main St.

The Jacobs Brothers of Dillsburg, Pa., will appear at Bethany Baptist Church, 72 Ryan St., Gardner, on Friday, May 18, at 7 p.m. The public invited.

Approximately 2,200 businesses and households were without electrical power for 90 minutes or so this afternoon Friday because of a damaged transmitter.