Pepperell News

Swift River Hydro's penstock and pump facility repair project is scheduled to be underway in July.

With the budget buttoned up and approved, the Finance Committee met to discuss the fiscal year's final line item.

The annual event awards $500 scholarships to Pepperell graduates from the North Middlesex Regional High School and Nashoba Valley Technical High School.

Rescue crews jumped into action when a dog took a tumble in Pepperell. The dog fell 20 feet down a steep embankment, forcing emergency responders to leave a Memorial Day parade.

The local recipients are Mark Liu and Eric Tao of Acton and Acton-Boxboro Regional High School, and Joseph Clark of Pepperell and North Middlesex Regional High School.

Pepperell residents Kyla Mahoney and Jessie Cummings-White were approved by selectmen earlier this year and thanked for making the commitment to Pepperell.

Two students from Nashoba Valley Technical High School have qualified for the SkillsUSA National Competition in June in Kansas City, Mo., by winning gold medals at the recent State Competition in Marlboro.

Come and learn how a small beetle is helping to protect our wetlands from being overwhelmed by invasive purple loosestrife.

The Lawrence Library, along with all of the member libraries in the Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing network, will be migrating to a new software product called Evergreen over the Memorial Day weekend.

On Saturday, May 5, I was honored to represent the Pepperell Business Association as its president in collaboration with the Pepperell Library, the Culinary Experience and Ray's Package Store in presenting the Pepperell debut of "Hand Held," the powerful documentary about Romanian Children's Relief founder and Pepperell resident, Mike Carroll, and ... (more)

The Lawrence Library will be closed from today through Monday, while it switches to a new catalog-database system.

US Representative Niki Tsongas has filed legislation that state, local, and federal officials hope will help protect the once heavily polluted Nashua River so that it can be a valuable ecological and recreational resource for future generations.

Plant sale: The Pepperell Garden Club Plant Sale will be held at Lawrence Library from 8 a.m. to noon.

Sparklers at the rotary is a far cry from Pepperell's usual offering of fireworks for the Fourth of July.

In a presentation to selectmen on May 14, the Economic Development Advisory Committee presented future goals along with its completed visitor's brochure.

Well into its Alzheimer's education series, the Pepperell Council on Aging's commitment to the disease is just beginning.

The Wastewater Treatment Plant sells composted mulch, a by-product of bio-solids that come through the plant.

This is really an urgent situation. Sudbury and Newton have issued townwide pulls and it is widespread in surrounding towns, blooming right now.

During the weekend of June 8-10, 2012, the New England Breed Show Series and the Young Horse Show wuk be held at Ten Broeck Farm in Pepperell, MA.

Misinformation, said Selectmen Chairman Joseph Sergi, was what led to the no-vote ruling at Town Meeting.