Woburn News

A 28-year-old Woburn man admitted he in court he went on a five-day robbery spree last year cleaning out dry cleaners in Tewksbury and Woburn, and a pet supply store in Burlington to feed a serious drug habit.

Schools' Supt. Dr. Carl Batchelder formally announced earlier this week that he will step down from the district's top post next June.

A lifelong city resident donated $150,000 to the School Committee Tuesday night for the construction of four new tennis courts at the WMHS site.

Add the name of Brion Cangiamila to the political mix locally for the Tuesday, Nov.

After two to three months of deliberation, the Marlowe Park Dedication Committee has decided upon a location for the John J. Marlowe Memorial Plaque, namely, a plaque imbedded in the rock, water fountain on the ...

Zoltan Kovacs has a fascinating background. Born and raised under the former communist regime in Hungary , he came to the United States as a 22-year-old horticulture exchange student with a passion for ...

An author whose Holocaust memoir was found to be fictional is fighting her publisher in a Woburn, Mass., court over the proceeds of a 2001 lawsuit.

Neighbors notify the city when the plant is belching noxious odors, but a health official often finds the smell is gone by the time he responds.

Serving two terms on the Woburn City Council after retiring from a profession that brought him in contact with various local and state officials, James Dwyer touts an impressive resume in his bid to unseat ...

The city of Boston wants to demolish a graffiti-covered cinderblock building at Mary Cummings Park in Burlington and Woburn, but the plan has outraged a local activist group, which recently asked the state ...

The City Council voted at its recent meeting to approve pay raises for the city's election workers and some police personnel.

WOBURN, Mass.- A former custodian and junior varsity basketball coach at Everett High School has been ordered held on $15,000 bail after pleading not guilty to raping a 12-year-old boy.

Escaping with an undetermined amount of cash, a man claiming to be armed robbed a Woburn Center bank on Saturday afternoon.

Long time Winchester portrait artist Mary Jacobs, 84, looks as though she's forty five, and, as she says herself, acts "as though I'm thirty!" A mother of five children - Peg, Barbara, Mary Anne, Richard and ...

Local and state police are searching for a suspect who shot a man Sunday morning.

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After a rollover accident on Interstate 95, two women were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A Draper Street company's proposed move to a building next door will be delayed until at least next month after the City Council at its recent meeting sent a pair of special permit petitions to committee.

Admitting that the construction job will continue for at least two more months, the city's Building Committee inked a $6,000 contract extension with WMHS project manager Patrick Saitta.

It will not necessarily be much of a change for Jack Hurd if he gets elected in September as state senator in the Fourth Middlesex District, because, he said, he expects to simply continue giving his best ...