South Lancaster News

Mount Wachusett Community College had its largest nurse pinning ceremony to date Friday as a result of absorbing students from the shuttered Atlantic Union College of South Lancaster.

A 20-year-old Lancaster man was sentenced to 14 to 18 years in state prison after entering guilty pleas in Worcester Superior Court to charges of rape, attempted murder, kidnapping, arson of a dwelling house, and vandalism.

Hometown Bank's plans for a new full-service branch office in Webster's East Village have been on hold for a couple of years, but things are finally starting to come around, acknowledges Matthew S. Sosik, president and CEO of the bank.

The Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the college, recently voted to develop a non-accredited lay training institute to be called the Northeast Evangelism Training School.