Pepperell News

Martha Coakley was Massachusetts attorney general barely two weeks in January 2007 when Boston was locked down after authorities discovered what they thought were bombs planted around the city.

If you are an aspiring bird watcher trying to get a glimpse of warblers, John Ganem suggests you hit a hiking trail on an orchard.

If you're an aspiring bird watcher trying to get a glimpse of warblers, John Ganem suggests you hit a hiking trail in an orchard.

A tight economy hasn't snuffed the spirit of giving in Pepperell, which has rallied behind a local nonprofit to provide a traditional holiday meal for families in need this Thanksgiving.

Pepperell Selectmen Chairman Joseph Sergi has asked the North Middlesex Regional School District committee to cut $350,000 from his town's school assessment for 2011.

The concept of a regional emergency communication center that would include a Reverse 911 system that will allow residents to be electronically warned of trouble has come to town.

If you had the power to make over the former downtown paper-mill site just the way you want, what would you put there? Development consultants contracted by the town believe a restaurant that overlooks the river, along with professional offices and health club, might be on your wish list.

Acting on the recommendation of assessor Michael Coffey, selectmen have continued a long-standing Pepperell tradition of evaluating all four property types -- residential, industrial, commercial and open space -- using the same classification of "one." That means no one type of property will have a different tax rate than another.

Lawrence Library in Pepperell has until Dec. 15 to meet a $1,000 challenge issued by Pepperell resident and library patron Diane Murphy to install floor coverings to protect the building's newly refinished hardwood floors.

What's your vision for the 13.9-acre Pepperell Paper Co. parcel along the Nashua River? Outdoor music venue, restaurant or theater space? The Mill Site Study Committee and its consultants are detailing these and other scenarios at a master-planning session Wednesday at the Senior Center, 37 Nashua Road, beginning at 6:30 p.m., a forum The Sun will ...

Selectmen have signed and posted a 13-article Special Town Meeting warrant for the Tuesday, Nov.

Grange meeting: 7 p.m. Groton Grange invites the public to attend in observation of State Grange "Farm Week." Guest panelists from Dunstable, Groton, Littleton, and Pepperell Agricultural Commissions will be present to talk about their civic roles, etc.

President Obama's declaration of the swine-flu outbreak as a national emergency last week raised many questions as to when local communities might start seeing volume shipments of H1N1 vaccine across the Commonwealth.

The finance committees for Townsend, Ashby and Pepperell met last night to brainstorm cost-savings ideas, focusing often on the school system and regionalization of municipal services.

Real life crime investigation isn't far different from that on the popular television series CSI, it just takes longer, Lt.

The members of the Middlesex Correction Officers Association made a prudent decision last week in agreeing to take a 10-day furlough rather than see as many as 30 of their members receive layoff notices.

Selectmen have resumed a search for a new town accountant interviewing one candidate last night and reviewing other resumes in executive session.

When Aga Khan University's new Faculty of Arts and Science building opens in Pakistan, not a single drop of water that toilets are flushed with will go to waste.

In a yearlong manhunt that took police from the East Coast to the West Coast, Sgt.

Plans to mothball the Peter Fitzpatrick Elementary School in Pepperell have been temporarily put on hold, after concerns emerged that the move could jeopardize an ongoing state reimbursement from a past construction project.