Grafton News

Two fishermen enjoyed the day and kept dry under umbrellas and trees as joggers braved the rain yesterday.

A man has been struck by lightning and traffic problems reported as thunderstorms move across Massachusetts.

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You can jazz up your weekend just by heading to Grafton. Not a jazzy town, you say? Why, it actually is the very hub of jazz in southern Worcester County and beyond, due mainly to the fact that it is home to Apple Tree Arts, a nonprofit community music and theater arts school.

Firefighters from three towns battled an early morning blaze today at a small manufacturing plant at 4 Lincoln Ave.

Two men were arrested and police sought a third suspect in connection with a bank robbery yesterday morning.

Northboro shortstop Kevin Brown indeed had possession of the ball after tagging out Clinton runner J.P. Ashline, who was caught at second base after a botched sacrifice attempt in the second inning of Northboro's 11-9 American Legion victory.

There's nothing like enjoying ripe, just-picked tomatoes, succulent peppers bursting with flavor or sweet butter-and-sugar corn, fresh from the stalk on a summer day.

The City Council expressed outrage last night that the city received not a dime from the $185 million in federal stimulus money to Massachusetts for water and sewer projects.

IT WAS one year ago today that Governor Patrick joined with legislative, academic, and industry leaders to sign into law the Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative.

Elizabeth T. Gauthier leaned forward in the chair in the living room of her home in the Rockdale part of Northbridge where she has lived for 50 years and made it perfectly clear she is doing just fine.

Trust me, I know: One day, some crucial gland inside of me will cough a final puff of its stuff into my bloodstream and I'll arrive at a visceral understanding of why the prospect of paying to hear Linda Eder sing the songs of Judy Garland shouldn't make my each of cells puke in unison.

Auburn *The Rev. Liz Magill, co-pastor of the Worcester Fellowship, a ministry to the homeless, will be the guest preacher at the 10 a.m. worship service June 14 at the First Congregational Church, 128 Central St.

"Sound" would be reflected in the proposed Green Street bridge makeover. By Nancy Sheehan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF nsheehan@telegram.com After the bridges are gussied up, they would be linked by an Art Walk, on which people could wend their way under all the bridges.

David Glispin, founder and president of Sunshine Sign in North Grafton, wondered whether there could be a fast-tracked permitting program, similar to projects that have been pushed through in Worcester and Devens, for smaller businesses.

Tantasqua's Dan Kemp dives in a failed attempt to snag a ground ball near second base.

Auburn Town Moderator Charles A. Baker said this year's town meeting was the shortest during his 19-year tenure.

Like picking the bones, but wistfully, people from as far away as Maine found their way to the city yesterday to purchase the pieces of the Foothills Theatre.

A 51-year-old Grafton man who has been convicted of three armed robberies in Central Massachusetts was charged yesterday with involvement in the July 11, 2007, robbery of a Cumberland Farms in Thompson.

Police are investigating a fatal accident involving a motorcycle and a car that occurred last night across the street from the Stop & Shop Supermarket shopping center on Worcester Street .