Wrentham News

Much of the 200 acres are overgrown with vegetation, giving them a ghostly feel.

Retailers are ready for the crowds. Black Friday shoppers are already braving the cold and standing in line at some stores.

Scores of people came from throughout New England to purchase Adidas sneakers, Cole Haan wallets, and other designer goods at rock-bottom prices.

Cumberland Farms marked its newest remodeled shop, in Plainville, Mass., earlier this week by donating 20 cents of every ChillZone beverage or cup of coffee sold there King Philip Regional High School.

SECURITY CONCERNS Martha Coakley said: "We must balance keeping America safe with protecting individual civil rights and liberties." Attorney General Martha Coakley is promising to work to improve security at airports, seaports, borders, and nuclear plants and waste sites if she is elected to the US Senate.

A former Walpole police sergeant was acquitted of four counts of tax fraud Monday in Boston Federal Court.

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Verna Louise Ray, 92, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, at the Fort Hudson Nursing Center in Fort Edward, N.Y. She was born August 21, 1917 in Lynn, Mass., the oldest daughter of the late Fred and Mildred Kenerson.

Former Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney may have worked with Democratic candidate Stephen Pagliuca, but he's supporting fellow Republican Scott Brown in this race to succeed the late Sen.

The songwriter-producer has some of the most celebrated artists in the music business on his speed dial, and he's rounded up a handful for a 10-city tour that stopped at the Agganis Arena last night.

Jennifer Hagerman of Wrentham hasn't been able to get herself or her 2-year-old son Kian vaccinated against H1N1.

Republican state lawmakers are pushing for a change in law that would require public elementary and high schools to instruct students on the proper use and display of the American flag.

Robinson, who coughed up $100,000 to collect the signatures, will challenge Wrentham state Sen.

Breathalyzers are coming to the halls of a local high school. The school committee unanimously passed the measure Monday night for events where students are suspected to be under the influence.

Reaction in Wrentham has been so strong against a plan for a new adult-entertainment district on 22 out-of-the-way acres at the Plainville line that town planners have scheduled another public hearing so all voices could be heard before a Town Meeting vote.

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He may clinch the Republican nomination, but Scott Brown knows he will have a steep hill to climb to be chosen as the next U.S. senator from Massachusetts.

After the news broke that Obama had been bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize, Blue Mass Group founder David Kravitz wrote on his liberal blog that the president should give it back.

Residents living near a high school in Wrentham say a smell coming from the school is making them sick.

The town of Wrentham is considering a zoning proposal that would dictate where such businesses as adult bookstores and strip clubs can go, the Sun Chronicle reports.