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There are 53 children enrolled in kindergarten next year. The goal is 60 K students in order to maintain the proposed four full-day kindergarten classes.

A Last month, U.S News and World Report ranked Westford Academy as the 27th best high school in Massachusetts and the 493rd ranked high school in the United States when it came to their 2012 "Best High Schools in America" ranking, earning the school a "gold medal" from the magazine.

As I was following the recent scandal engulfing Pal Schmitt, president of Hungary, in the European media, I kept thinking of Elizabeth Warren.

This week it's all about math with fun, facts and felicitations summing it up. As a little warm-up to get readers in the math mood, College Town shares the variation of a problem found in 'The Probability of Murder,' by Ada Mason.

The eighth year of the Janis Bresnahan Run for Education took place under a sky so blue, it looked like it was Photoshopped into the scene.

Her biography on oklahomaheritage.com says she "can track both sides of her family in Oklahoma long before statehood" and "she proudly tells everyone she encounters that she is 'an Okie to my toes.'a <" It does not mention any Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother. A DVD of the induction ceremony shows that neither Warren nor anyone else mentioned ... (more)

The Rotary Club of Ayer, Harvard, Shirley and Devens announced the winner of the 22nd annual Ducky Wucky River Race held on Saturday was Sue Holmes of Harvard.

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.

Police arrested John M. King, 38, allegedly living at 6 Whitcomb Ave., saying he failed to properly register with Ayer police as a sex offender living in town, as required by the state's Sex Offender Registry laws.

Central Mass voters may be the ones who decide the Brown-Warren Senate race in November, but they're not the only ones who are paying for it, which is a good thing for local voters, since it is shaping up to be the most expensive Senate race in US history.

The Rotary Club of Ayer, Harvard, Shirley and Devens announced the winner of the 22nd Annual Ducky Wucky River Race held on Saturday was Sue Holmes of Harvard.

LEARN TO WHISTLE LIKE A BIRD: Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m., at the Lancaster Community Center, 39 Harvard Road.

The public is invited to Fort Devens Museum's Open House on Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where Armed Forces Day will be observed with exhibits, talks and the opportunity to share conversation about the military and local history with others over refreshments.

A young man was injured Friday when he fell from a ladder at 247 Littleton County Rd.

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren did not rely upon affirmative action to get teaching work at universities around the country, documents obtained by several media outlets revealed on Thursday.

Popular children's singer Jeff Jam will perform live at the 60th annual Apple Blossom Festival on Harvard Common, Saturday, May 12.

From left, Joanne C. Foster of Lancaster reaches to shake the hand of Maud V. Ayson of Devens and Meg Bagdonas of Harvard during an "On the Green" event celebrating the history of Lancaster Town Green.

Malki Naoum Yousef, 69, of Worcester, died on Friday, May 4 at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale surrounded by his loving family.

He was born on July 12, 1817 and died on May 6, 1862 two months shy of his 46th birthday.

Want dinner anywhere in the world? Adopt a duck for the Ayer Rotary Club's 22h annual Ducky Wucky River Race, and you could be the lucky winner.