Southbridge News

HillcrestFest, the free kids fair at Hillcrest Educational Centers at 788 South St., which was scheduled for today, is postponed due to the weather forecast.

Disaster relief aid sent to communities hit by tornadoes last June boosted cleanup efforts, but help was harder to find for many victims.

To fanfare two years ago, federal and local officials announced that Westfield State University had joined with a growing community college and would soon open a satellite criminal justice program in Southbridge.

Exactly a year ago, a series of tornados touched down in western Massachusetts, resulting in the loss of lives, homes and businesses.

Dan Butler, of Brookside Road in Southbridge, waters his newly-planted apple trees.

The crackdown on curbside trash rules has moved to 'targeted enforcement,' Town Manager Christopher Clark said.

It's been almost a year since a vicious tornado churned through this community and upended the lives of many people.

AGE: 17 HOMETOWN: Oxford PARENTS: Alan and Julia Corbin HONORS AND AWARDS: Vocational achiever in cosmetology, Grades 10 and 11; achiever in Renaissance, Grade 11; achiever in Algebra II, Grade 11; John and Abigail Adams Scholarship; Fall State Leadership Conference representative, Grades 9 and 10; academic high honors, Grades 9-12; Perfect ... (more)

Saint Vincent's Executive Director, John T. Weldon, announced that Dr. Donald L. Bigwood has joined Saint Vincent's staff as a child/adolescent psychiatrist and medical director.

Beginning today, the city's Department of Public Works and Parks will begin sweeping the areas bounded by Madison, Millbury, Cambridge, Canterbury, Hammond and Southbridge streets.

A chlorine gas scare in a building in the former American Optical complex triggered a hazardous materials incident response shortly after 8 this morning.

Firefighters have converged on the former American Optical complex for a hazardous materials situation.

Firefighters have converged on the former American Optical complex for a hazardous materials situation.

By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, directed by Mary Gahagan. Presented by Gateway Players At the Gateway Arts Barn, 111 Main St., Southbridge.

A Worcester Superior Court judge has upheld a sentence against a man who, 14 years ago, was convicted of killing a man and severely injuring members of the man's family in a drunken driving crash on Route 20 in Charlton.

The town will again distribute rain barrels and rotating composters from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. June 7 at the Community Center, 153 Chestnut St.

Kathleen Devlin-DeLisle, head of speech and listening therapy at Willie Ross School for the Deaf in Longmeadow, works with student Luis Ortiz, 4, of Southbridge, on speech and letter sounds.

The Southbridge police log -- its thick sheaf of printouts detailing several weeks worth of arrests, vehicle stops and reports of break-ins, assaults and other crimes - is encased in a new loose-leaf binder and is freely available to anyone around the clock on a counter in the police station's front lobby.

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The Quinebaug Valley Council for the Arts and Humanities is proud to present "I Wish I Could Draw" by Connecticut artist Phillip Browne.