Tewksbury News

A new year, a new batch of tax bills. It may be a given, but the bills' arrival in Tewksbury starting this week will be a little different.

A motorist was taken to Saints Medical Center in Lowell with minor injuries Friday night after her vehicle struck a lamp post on private property in a two-car accident on Shawsheen Road.

Former Tewksbury Police Chief Al Donovan has been hired by the city to investigate a wide-ranging array of issues inside the Police Department, according to a letter dated Sept.

Fifty-two years after selectmen first approved use of the Rocco family's 40-acre parcel on South Street as a town dump, 49 potentially responsible parties have agreed to pay more than $30 million to clean up the toxic site it became, state and federal agencies announced yesterday.

A fund has been started to help the Giordano family, which was displaced by a fire at their home Dec.

A highly educated and accomplished Lincoln couple married 63 years found out months before they succumbed to the ravages of old age that their longtime personal assistant had been stealing money from them.

Maria Fragala-Pinkham, a physical therapist at Franciscan Hospital for Children, recently received the award for outstanding achievement in clinical practice from the American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts.

Residents looking to start fresh in the new year can get some free professional help from local businesses.

The future of special education was the main topic at last night's School Committee meeting as the town anticipates changes in special-education programming.

A Tewksbury woman who stole more than $10,000 from an elderly couple in Lincoln pled guilty today, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said.

Going at least 50 mph as he drove inbound on Andover Street this weekend, Stephen Clark had less than a second between the time he looked at his cell phone and the time his car slammed into a tree, police say.

One of the town's big-box stores has asked the Conservation Commission to confirm where wetlands lie on its property, but will not say why.

Massachusetts lawmakers should be embarrassed by the middling grade the state received regarding its charter-school laws.

The state has fined a Tewksbury couple $14,000 for illegally filling wetlands so they could use the area off Squire Lane as a yard for the family masonry business.

Tewksbury, Mass., Health Care Provider and Its CEO Permanently Enjoined Relating to Failure to Comply with Federal Employment Tax Requirements In-Home Health Aide Provider Has Lengthy History of Failing To Comply with Federal Employment and Unemployment Tax Obligations A federal court in Boston issued a judgment against Excel Home Care Inc.

Nobody disputes that Timothy Sheehan is the right man to be Tewksbury's next police chief.

The Sun applauds the ongoing efforts of Lowell attorney Dan Leahy, who, for 24 years, has been instrumental in gathering food, clothing, diapers, books and toys for needy children in Jamaica.

Tewksbury and Pepperell made good selections for their next municipal leaders, however, both communities should now exercise caution when determining compensation and benefits packages for the new hires.

Star-Ledger reporters Mike Garafolo and Jenny Vrentas discuss changes in the Giants starting lineup and the upcoming game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Two Massachusetts men were arraigned yesterday on charges stemming from a shoplifting spree and a pursuit across the state border in September that resulted in injuries to two police officers and damage to a police cruiser.