Upton News

Selectmen and administrators from five Blackstone Valley towns have shifted their attention for now from regional economic development to fighting legislation they say is hurting local municipal budgets.

By Jacqueline Reis TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF jreis@telegram.com You want to provide kids a safe way to get to school and get home.

Football Bay Path 14, Nashoba Tech 0: Corey Pearson rushed for 71 yards and a touchdown and returned an interception 12 yards for a TD as the Minutemen defeated the visiting Vikings .

U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Brenton Rutter of Granite Road had one heck of a 20th birthday.

Grafton & Upton Railroad owner Jon Delli Priscoli stands in the company rail yard in North Grafton while describing upgrades to the line.

Joan Scribner, Principal of Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton has been elected President of the Massachusetts Secondary School Administratorsa Association for the 2009-2010 school year.

One of my co-workers, who is known for his light-hearted humor and graced with an engaging smile, opened his arms wide to hug me one morning.

Worcester Windows smashed on two police cruisers WORCESTER - Detectives following up on a dog attack that left a 3-year-old boy with a forehead full of stitches came back out of the Aetna Street address to find their cruisers' windows smashed.

Whether you want to peek inside a tepee, settle in at the feet of Grandmother Storyteller to hear ancient tales of the Lakota, or learn how to dance around the powwow drum, the fourth annual Intertribal Powwow at Sweetwilliam Farm in Upton has a place for you.

I'm eating a FiberOne bar as I write this column. The information on the package promises to provide 35 percent of the fiber I need each day.

The driver killed in a rollover accident yesterday has been identified by police as Chad A. Holbrook, 18, of Uxbridge.

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." So goes the poetry of artist and writer Khalil Gibran.

Shrewsbury Upton man held in bank robbery SHREWSBURY - An Upton man was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail yesterday after being arraigned on charges of robbing the Commerce Bank at 266 Boston Turnpike Friday afternoon.

Fire gutted a house on Quaker Street yesterday afternoon. Fire Chief Gary Nestor said the ranch-style house was a total loss, and that the state fire marshal's office was at the house helping investigators try to determine a cause.

O peration Homefront has extended until Saturday the deadline for 2009 Military Spouse Scholarship Program applications.

But first I want to say goodbye to Duane's flagship, WBCN [ website ] , the Rock of Boston, which as you know is going off the air next month.

A four-alarm fire leveled a house on Leland Street this afternoon, displacing the residents.

Ann M. Davidson of Upton is the author of "Catherine's Cadeau," which focuses on the deportation of Acadians.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 5:31 pm US/Eastern WBZ Weather Blog HOPKINTON 1 of 5 The storm brought down trees and powerlines in Hopkinton.

You are suddenly unemployed. Terminated. Let go. How do you begin moving on? The jobless rate has climbed to levels not seen in a quarter century, double what it was in 2004.