Framingham News Archives

Correction: Because of a reporting error, The Observer column in Sunday's Globe incorrectly quoted Peter Drummey, librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The state Department of Environmental Protection has cited a Framingham man and his realty management company for violating the hazardous waste site cleanup regulations at a property in Worcester, and assessed a $6,000 penalty for the violations.

Naked Fish restaurants in Billerica, Framingham & Waltham offering free kid's meals to all children 12 and under in costumes this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Thanksgiving is a warm, wonderful family oriented holiday that brings back memories of years past and delicious food.

Barletta has started breaking into the Hultman Aqueduct to establish the internal inspection access point at Brook Street in Framingham.

So many people turned out for a flu vaccination clinic at Framingham High School yesterday that at least 200 were turned away.

Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study of a contemporary Massachusetts population offers evidence of evolution still in action.

Police arrested an Arch Street man and charged him with threatening another person with a knife at the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority station downtown Tuesday afternoon.

A Marlborough man was arrested carrying a stolen rifle on Saturday after a manhunt for his capture was prompted by a threat against his family and taunting messages left for police, a prosecutor said Monday.

Framingham, Mass. Staples and AEG, a leading sports and entertainment presenter, announced that Staples has elected to extend its naming rights agreement for the AEG-owned, Staples Center in Los Angeles, one of the nationa s leading sports and entertainment arenas.

One person was arrested while another is still on the run after a burglary in Framingham.

And now for this week's NIMBY, courtesy of the MetroWest Daily News: Framingham residents are opposed to a proposal by Paulini Loam LLC to build a concrete batch plant on Old Connecticut Path, citing concerns over noise, traffic and air quality.

Mirabilis.ca linked to an article at the BBC entitled, The 'youngest headmaster in the world' , in which they feature the heroic efforts of a 16 year old young man to educate the rural poor in his village in West Bengal.

Carla Howell and Michael Cloud Alliance to Roll Back Taxes Small Government News Wednesday, October 7, 2009 *** begin quote *** Virtually every statewide political campaign in Massachusetts hires petitioners to collect signatures.

A broadcaster says he is buying a Pittsburgh radio station and plans to launch a news and talk format geared toward the African-American community.

Massachusetts' immigrant population rose last year in the middle of the recession, bucking a national trend that showed a decline in foreign-born residents for the first time in decades.

Today's Flickr Spotlight is on Simply Sweeter of Framingham, Massachusetts, whose beautiful cupcake cones we featured in July.

October 07, 2009 FRAMINGHAM, MA: Framingham Farm Day is coming up on Sat Oct 17 10am-2pm. Bring the whole family and enjoy the fall weather at any or all of these real New England farms in the greater Nobscot area.

Published: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 5:13 a.m. Some women love their shoes so much it hurts.

Part of country music's late-'90s crop of female crossover stars, Jo Dee Messina's appeal nonetheless remained more with country fans than pop audiences.

Correction: The Council on Aging meeting will be held on Tuesday October 13th. The date was incorrectly listed as October 6th in the Council's newsletter.

A second family member was arraigned yesterday on charges of murder and attempted armed robbery in connection with the shooting death of a man in Hyannis.

Two Massachusetts law enforcement agencies have announced that they are no longer enrolled in a controversial program that allows them enforce federal immigration laws.

Police have arrested a second man in the killing of a 47-year-old Framingham man who was found dead in his Hyannis summer home.

Two Massachusetts law enforcement agencies - the Framingham police and the Barnstable County sheriff's department - are no longer enrolled in a controversial program that let them enforce federal immigration laws.

Police and the district attorney's office today are investigating a homicide after police were called last night to a house at 25 Ripple Cove Road in Hyannis, reports the Cape Cod Times .