Barre News

The Massachusetts State Senate Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday released a fiscal year 2014 budget proposal that is just shy of $34 billion and which falls short of several of Gov.

A well-attended Hardwick School Council meeting Wednesday urged Quabbin Regional School Superintendent Maureen M. Marshall to keep the town's elementary school open.

The water from the Quabbin Reservoir provided to 2.5 million residents is safe, officials from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority said Wednesday, one day after seven people with ties to the Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore were caught trespassing shortly after midnight on the watershed property.

The Senate Ways and Means Committee released a nearly $34 billion state budget proposal Wednesday for the fiscal year starting July 1 - a spending plan significantly less than the plan Gov.

A Barre man is being held without bail after he allegedly threatened to kill his wife, then later led police on Sunday to three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition he had buried in their backyard.

Sunday drivers. Argghhhh. They slow you down. They appear not to know where they're going.

A passenger train arrives at what use to be the Palmer train station and is now the Palmer Steaming Tender Restaurant on Depot Street in October, for a special trip from New London, Conn., to Brattleboro, Vt.

Caring for a horse can be a significant undertaking when household finances are good, but it can become overwhelming when a family illness or job loss quickly changes the income picture.

Voters Tuesday said yes to a tax increase to pay for a $3.1 million renovation at Ruggles Lane elementary school.

President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was escorted from the JFK Federal Building to a waiting car after her hearing in February.

The Cool Hand Blues Band promises an evening of great music and a great time. Photo Courtesy of Michelle Mckeen Oakham's Cool Hand Blues Band is made up of an astounding ten members and to tell each of their stories individually would be an impossible feat in the space allotted.

The interior of the brick town hall, decked out with patriotic bunting and black trimmings, was swarming with celebrants and mourners, many finely dressed for what was to be the final evening of the town hall and for the town itself.

On the April 30 election ballot there is a request to approve a tax increase to fund about $3.1 million in repairs at Ruggles Lane elementary school.

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners has awarded a $15,887 grant to the town for a construction project at Woods Memorial Library.