Orange News

State environmental police are investigating the death of a Phillipston man who slammed a snowmobile into the rocky shore of Clubhouse Pond in Warwick Sunday afternoon.

GARDNER, Mass. - A father and son from north central Massachusetts have been charged with illegally baiting and then shooting a bear.

More than 50 years ago, Selectboard Chairman Bob Andrews was working all night long, fixing a damaged telephone cable in Athol.

Genevieve Fraser, artistic director of the Drama Circle, one of the organizers of the "Quabbin Civil War Remembrance" activities, pauses inside the remodeled main room of the Orange Town Hall.

Steven T. Fay of Hillsborough, N.H., 57, leaves the courtroom in Franklin Superior Court in Greenfield, Mass.

The New Hampshire man piloting the small plane that crashed last year on New Year's Day, killing his daughter, has been indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Even though a Mahar K-12 school regionalization proposal did not win the approval of all partnering towns this year, some form of the initiative may re-emerge later.

Siding blistered off six homes, but none burned last night as firefighters braved the heat to keep hosing them down while their colleagues battled a conflagration 20 feet away at the former N.D. Cass Toy Co.

Orange firefighters were able to work through the quickly falling temperatures Monday night to contain a house fire at 71 Intervale Rd.