Tewksbury News

Two individuals and two companies were recognized at the Clean Show with Meritorious Service Awards by the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute.

A public workshop will be held by MassHighway and the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development to present updated project information about the Interstate 93 Tri-Town Interchange Project.

A former Tewksbury Memorial High School boys basketball coach sentenced Tuesday to spend at least five years in state prison, after he was convicted in May of sexually assaulting a male player in the coach's Westford home 20 years ago.

James Foye interviewed for a seat on the town's Zoning Board of Appeals last week, and told selectmen about a difficult decision the board's members had to make recently.

For the past 15 years The Tewksbury Community of Artists have organized, planned and sponsored, in part, the biggest art show in Tewksbury, the Annual Art Festival.

The massive heart attack that took the life of his father, a Tewksbury policeman, at the tender age of 49.

Although the construction of a new highway exit on Interstate 93 is years away, officials expect to know by September how the interchange will be designed.

For five years, Mary Nichols and her Yorkshire terrier, Quinny, have been constant companions.

The flap over odor from Krochmal Farm's pig operation heated up once again at last night's continued Board of Health hearing on neighborhood health issues.

Bad boys finish first? Steve Santagati, a Tewksbury native and the real-life inspiration behind the Gerard Butler character in the upcoming flick "The Ugly Truth," believes so and is on a mission to inspire men to be men again and women to be pro-active in the romance department.

The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has annulled one of the town's newest bylaws, ruling that a measure seeking to regulate power plants is "inconsistent" with state law.

Sophomore Leanne Tucker was part of three Tewksbury High girls track relay teams which set school records at this past weekend's Nike Outdoor Nationals.

John Donoghue never expected to spend three decades in education, much less end up in an administrator's chair.

MEAN ON TV: There are nice people on TV and there are not so nice people on TV. David letterman is one of them.

Only one of nine police officers who took polygraph tests in connection with missing drugs from an evidence trailer behind the former police station was shown to be "deceptive" in some responses, officials said yesterday.

They will start popping up on curbs next week. Big, blue, on wheels and with space for about five trash bags.

For commuters, it may be a blessing. But the news that the Lowell Regional Transit Authority has extended one of its bus routes to the Wilmington commuter rail station did not sit so well with unaware town officials.

With devastating budget cuts once again looming, volunteers are urging residents to help keep one local institution afloat.

Tewksbury's school committee voted to temporarily fire, then rehire all school personnel in an effort to close a budget gap.

State Police report that a person driving along Interstate 93 North in Tewksbury Thursday morning lost control of the vehicle and hit a parked vehicle at a construction site near the Dascomb Road exit.