Townsend News

Many members at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 794 in Fitchburg served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

They're all dressed up with no place to fight. The gradual disappearance of open land in Eastern Massachusetts is turning into a crisis for a 500-member group of Union Civil War reenactors known as the New England Brigade.

A $1 million endowment would mean $40,000 of annual support for the Townsend Public Library and a local grassroots effort is nearly halfway to making that goal a reality.

Well adult clinic -- Ashby: 11 a.m. to noon. Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, in conjunction with the Ashby Board of Health, announces that a well adult clinic will be held free of charge for the general public at the Ashby Library.

The Board of Selectmen appointed an 11-member search committee to find a new police chief on Wednesday night.

School officials in Lunenburg and North Middlesex will decide in the coming weeks whether to pursue plans to merge the two districts.

The question of why Townsend employees do not receive the retirement health-care coverage that school teachers receive has once again been raised in private circles and according to rumor, a town meeting warrant article to establish the benefit may be forthcoming.

The mini-dirt bike was freshly painted, but the red seat gave it away. Two Townsend men -- one a U.S. Marine -- told police they stole two dirt bikes that belonged to a neighbor's two young sons.

The Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 11th annual Community Service & Leadership Awards event Wednesday, Nov.

Officials from the newly-remodeled Hannaford Supermarket were on hand Saturday to hand out gift cards to customers and area food pantries during a grand reopening celebration.

Selectmen have set a 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 as the start date for the fall Special Town Meeting to be held in Memorial Hall.

Townsend Recreation is hosting a haunted house at the Townsend Congregational Church, Townsend, on Oct.

Communities throughout the region are learning the new state ethics law is a logistical quagmire, officials said this week.

Townsend VFW Post #6538 and its Ladies Auxiliary are sponsoring the Patriot's Pen Contest for students in grades 6, 7 and 8. The theme for this year's essay competition is "When is the Right Time to Honor our Military Heroes?" Each essay must be typewritten or computer printed in English.

The boards of selectmen for the towns of Ashby, Pepperell and Townsend and members of the North Middlesex Regional School District Committee are seeking qualified applicants to fill the at-large vacancy on the NMRSDC resulting from the resignation of at-large member Tamara Leclerc.

The North Middlesex Regional School Committee is expected to vote tomorrow on rescinding its plan to turn over the Peter Fitzpatrick School building to the town until at least February or March Superintendent Maureen Marshall told selectmen Tuesday night the school board will be asked to take an official vote on a letter of recission at the 7 p.m.

The North Middlesex Regional School Committee is looking for another member after the recent resignation of Tamara Leclerc of Ashby.

Although the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has lifted the boil-water order issued Sept.

State funding is not enough to maintain the deteriorating road system in town so the Board of Selectmen Monday discussed potential ways of locally funding repairs and repaving.

Emerson will give journalism professor Roger House another shot at tenure in 2011 in exchange for dropping his complaint.