Monson News

Friday was the deadline for residents to take out nomination papers to run for town positions in the April 2 election.

Last June's tornado that ripped through southern Worcester and Hampden counties and left a trail of debris also wreaked havoc with tax collectors' ledgers.

Jeju Free International City Development Center Chairman Byon Jong-il, left, meets with Wilbraham & Monson Academy Head of School Rodney LaBrecque recently.

A 25-year-old Monson man was arrested for drunken driving early Monday following a car accident at Park Avenue and Church Street that injured three people in another car, police said.

Firefighters have had a busy year, forced to deal with all the damage the tornado left behind.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Model railroading in Western Massachusetts has been a family affair for generations.

Amherst Regional High School's Audrey Gould won the 1 Mile run at the indoor track meet at Smith College at a meet in December.

MONSON - Only a handful of Western Massachusetts Casino Task Force Committee members showed up at Wednesday's meeting, the first since casino gaming became legal, but the chairman was pleased with the outcome, as the group decided to create a list of ways member communities could protect themselves in the event a resort casino project opened in ... (more)

Amanda Carrier, of Monson, who started a parish clothing drive as a confirmation project, refocused the drive to help people affected by the June 1 tornado that hit the area.

Firefighters from various cities and towns in Massachusetts walk down Roosevelt Avenue in Springfield the day after a tornado struck Western Massachusetts.

LUDLOW - The Board of Selectmen has approved short-term borrowing of $3.5 million to pay for debris removal costs from the Oct.

A former Monson man, charged last March with participating in an international online child pornography ring, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

Central battled but fell in a high-energy matchup with Conn. power Windsor. See highlights and player interview with Central's Tyrell Springer.