Tewksbury News

A 50-year-old Lowell woman was killed yesterday morning after her car struck another vehicle head-on near the Lowell line just minutes after she had clipped a motorcycle, police said.

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The cause of an early morning two-alarm fire Wednesday that heavily damaged a home on Acton Road remains under investigation, said Chelmsford Fire Capt.

Weeks after the School Committee voted to roll back the workdays of school employees to bridge a $1.2 million budget deficit, nonunion staff members have agreed to a 5-percent pay cut instead.

Town Manager David Cressman had prepared a fiscal 2010 budget that called for all of Tewksbury's three fire stations "to be opened all year." Other town leaders repeatedly expressed their distaste for the use of a fire-station closure as a way to bridge budget deficits.

Fire tore through the attic of a Fossen Way house collapsing a portion of the roof during yesterday afternoon's thunder and lightning storm.

"By the Riverside" business networking mixer, 5 to 7 p.m. at Jackson's Restaurant, 478 Lowell St.

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.