Jefferson News

Ethics Commission Chairman Charles Swartwood III HARVARD/BOSTON - Word spread quickly that, after some three years of wait, Ethics Commission hearings into Harvard School Superintendent Thomas Jefferson and former School Committeeman Paul Wormser will be open to the public when they commence Thursday and continue as needed into Friday.

The ballot measure pushed by Jesse and Megan Weeks to limit how much carbon dioxide power plants can emit before they are regulated as green energy is founded on a legitimate concern but unfortunately takes aim at the wrong target.

After experiencing the turmoil surrounding the resignation of Town Manager Brian J. Bullock in June, residents will have their first opportunity to have their say about the matter when they vote at a special town meeting Monday.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the Superior Court trial of one of two Clinton men charged with setting a string of fires two years ago, including one that destroyed the historic Sterling birthplace of Mary Elizabeth Sawyer of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' fame.

In the past year, more than 910,000 people have visited our libraries, an average of over 76,000 visits a month.

President Obama's approval ratings are falling less because of conservative perfidy and more because of the healthy skepticism of the American public.

The Maine Warden Service this morning recovered the body of a Massachusetts man who fell from a canoe while fishing on a central Maine lake.

The Maine Warden Service is continuing its search for a 20-year-old Massachusetts man who fell from a canoe while fishing on a central Maine lake.

After seven years in Congress, Sam Adams returned to Massachusetts in 1779, and became a member of the Constitutional Convention, charged with writing a new constitution for Massachusetts.

This is a warning to all local homeowners to check a contractor's Better Business Bureau rating before hiring the contractor.