Hubbardston News

Annette King of Hubbardston, left, shops with her mother, Theresa Lafortune of Gardner, and aunt, Rachel Boucher of Augusta, Maine, yesterday at Solomon Pond Mall on the Marlboro-Berlin line.

Shrewsbury Armed men take drugs from pharmacy SHREWSBURY - In a brazen daylight robbery, three men burst into the CVS Pharmacy on Route 9 yesterday, flashed semiautomatic handguns and demanded drugs.

Hubbardston Center School is closed today because of the high number of student absences because of illness.

GARDNER * The First Baptist Church, High Street, will hold a meatball supper at 5:30 p.m. Oct.

Two Auburn men and two Worcester women have been arrested in connection with the theft of a gun from an Old Princeton Road home.

From left, Sarah B. Latino, operations manager for the Rutland Emergency Communications Center, and dispatcher Eileen S. McCarthy, both of Rutland, work with different departments at the center.

An organizational meeting of the Quabbin Regional Citizens Audit Committee Thursday night drew a promise of cooperation from School Superintendent Maureen M. Marshall and praise from the advocate for school budget accountability.

Quabbin Regional School Committee members and district administrators are optimistic an additional cut of $228,382 from the proposed fiscal 2010 budget will be enough to gain voter approval in Hardwick or Oakham.

To get to the next level on regionalization, all of us have to separate hometown pride from the nuts and bolts of delivering public services.

It's beginning to look like dejA vu all over again. But no one at the Quabbin Regional School Committee Thursday night was amused when reminded - for a second consecutive year - the five-town district has started the academic year without an approved budget.

Share + Sep 9, 2009 2:34 pm US/Eastern Submit: Your Curiosity Reporting David Wade A lot of our viewers are telling us they're angry about paying bank fees.

In a matter of minutes they had picked nearly a bushel of cucumbers of all sizes from the robust green vines in the weed-free Quabbin Community Garden.

Folks from Westminster and beyond came out Saturday in the rain and heat for Westminster's 250th Celebration events.

Folks from Westminster and beyond came out Saturday in the rain and heat for Westminster's 250th Celebration events.

An announcement on the town's official Web site warning residents about a mountain lion wandering around likely refers to a bobcat, animal control officer Deborah H. Giordano said today.

The three-town pay-as-you-throw proposal for Hubbardston, Princeton and Templeton is back to the drawing board because not enough households signed up for the program by the already extended deadline.

The North Middlesex Regional School Committee voted 6-2 Monday night to enter into negotiations with the Quabbin Regional School District on a proposal to allow North Middlesex Superintendent of Schools Maureen Marshall to serve both districts.

The deadline for residents of Princeton, Hubbardston and Templeton to sign up for refuse and recycling collection through a new pay-as-you-throw program has been extended a month.

Judge Patrick A. Fox increased the bail from $50,000 to $100,000 for a Gardner man who allegedly was drunk when he crashed a stolen ATV into a tree late Saturday night, killing a Leominster teen who was riding with him.

With the national unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, Americans are becoming more resourceful - selling family heirlooms, jewelry and rare collectibles to get by - and buyers from Great Treasure Hunt shows are cashing in on hard times.