Sterling News

Howarth House, this former mill city's first bed-and-breakfast, has a rather unique claim to fame: Guests may find Fitchburg Fire Captain Brian Belliveau whipping up their pancakes or omelets in the morning.

Fitchburg Federal money funds firefighting positions FITCHBURG - Federal grant money for public safety is sparing two more firefighters from layoffs and will help hire six more, but budgetary benefits from the money, the mayor says, extend beyond paying salaries.

Two Massachusetts men were sentenced Monday to 15-year prison terms for torching a Berkshire County railroad facility and the Worcester County birthplace of the woman who allegedly inspired the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb." In addition to incarceration, John Rousseau and Michael Dreslinski were ordered to serve lengthy probation sentences ...

For some people, there is shame in losing their memory. And in some cases, there is fear.

The four-bedroom home on Main Street is designed to look like an old Colonial. Stepping from the farmer's porch into Anne and Rocky Trotto's family room, one focuses immediately on the long antique maple table in the kitchen.

It took more than three years, but developer Jim Whitney on Friday heard the news he'd been waiting for -- the state awarded a $1.1 million grant to Whitney's Southgate Business Park, which will be used to start building a road in the development.

'Peter Pan,' presented by Theatre at the Mount of Gardner, will fly into Gardner for Thanksgiving weekend for 6 performances.

Local residents cheered and waved at veterans who marched down Main Street Sunday for the American Legion Post 189 Veterans Day ceremonies.

Sterling Municipal Light Department has announced some power line repairs. In the Northwest corner of Sterling, contract line crews will be working with the Sterling Municipal Light Department and will be repairing lines from Heywood Road up to Justice Hill Cutoff on both Rowley Hill Road and Justice Hill Road.

Officials from towns of the Wachusett Regional School District agreed yesterday that it is going to be hard to fund their portion of new assessments.

A jury today has found a second man guilty of setting an abandoned Erving paper mill on fire.

Paula Meola Dance & Performing Arts of Sterling presents 'The Nutcracker,' Saturday, Dec.

Clinton Savings Bank is teaming up with two local charities to meet the growing need for food this holiday season.

That's the definition of discrimination. You are a regional student, you get a cut.

A Charlton man faces charges of attempted murder and assault and battery after allegedly attacking his girlfriend.

For Mary Devaney, long life just runs in her family. Her father, Patrick Sullivan, an Irish immigrant, lived to be 104, so she attributes some of her longevity to good genes.

In conjunction with the ghost stories and the coloring contest, the Coulter Press, publishers of The Item, ran an unscramble the words contest.

The Patrick-Murray Administration, through the Department of Conservation and Recreation , is awarding Volunteer Fire Assistance grants to 45 towns across the Commonwealth.

Westboro Man gets jail term for drunken driving WESTBORO - A Marlboro man found guilty on his fourth drunken driving offense was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday in Westboro District Court.

Congratulations go out to Leominster's Andrew Hudson for winning Week 5 of the Sentinel & Enterprise NFL Pick'em Contest with a record of 8-2. Hudson, who has won at least one week in the contest in each of the past three seasons, barely edged out Sterling's Bill Brassard and the patients at Burbank Rehabilitation Center .