Leicester News

The owner of a Leicester engineering company has been appointed town engineer. William A. Coyle will start on the job on Monday, he and Assistant Town Administrator Edward J. Kazanovicz said yesterday.

Selectmen last night approved an increase in rates for the town's emergency medical services, the first increase since 2005.

The owner of a Leicester engineering company has been appointed town engineer. William A. Coyle will start on the job on Monday, he and Assistant Town Administrator Edward J. Kazanovicz said yesterday.

The gates went up this morning at Union Station Parking Garage, the 500-spot facility viewed by some as a likely catalyst to the station's slow rebirth.

Remember to tip your caddy The folks at Quabaug Corp. in North Brookfield, the sole - if you will - manufacturer of Vibram boot and shoe soles in North America, are not ones to become complacent.

Lobster and steamers are summer specials at many area restaurants, but at Coral Seafood, 225 Shrewsbury St., Worcester, it's all about a New England clambake.

A group of Leicester churches, businesses and food providers is organizing a program to make sure no one goes hungry in these worrisome economic times.

Though the lazy, hazy days of summer are here, the School Committee will be at work this week.

A sign thanks the bikers who participated yesterday in Molly's Ride for Child Safety, to benefit the Molly Bish Foundation & Life Guards Center.

Two Worcester residents and a Grafton man were arrested during a break-in at a Leicester gas station.

Selectmen sat down this week with two National Grid officials and aired complaints about the shabby treatment from the utility company during a recent storm.

Leicester's recycling guru, Ruth L. Kaminski, e-mailed the Notebook with a tale about a young immigrant boy whose life she had a hand in recycling.

When I get back to Haiti, I am going to spend every day praying for the churches in the United States.

The bank that holds the mortgage for a rental property owned by state Senate candidate Douglas A. Belanger has filed notice in Worcester Superior Court that it intends to foreclose on the multiunit Worcester ...

A Leicester man who spent yesterday casting his line into a pond in Auburn is telling a story about the big one that got away - but it's no fish tale.

Michael N. Dubrule, who is about to step down after 10 years as superintendent of Leicester's public schools, says that what he is proudest of is that everything he has done here, and in all of his 35-year ...

Musicians come together to form town band Betty Lilyestrom 892-3454 blilyestrom@telegram.com Leicester's youngsters will have little opportunity to complain that they don't have anything to do this summer, if ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association will honor local individuals and a company for outstanding contributions in the effort eradicate ALS .

Victim in trestle fall identified LEICESTER -- The 26-year-old Rochdale man who plunged 30 feet from a train trestle Sunday night has been identified as Jeremiah Mowers of Wells Street, police said.

Moore: Belanger offer media stunt By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF ssutner@telegram.com After a lackluster start, the race to succeed state Sen.