Billerica News

At Brightview Senior Living, it pays to show up to work every day, and on time. Employees who do so can earn from two extra hours of pay a month to 30 extra hours of pay in a year.

Voltaire Ltd. , a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced that it ranked number 9 on Deloitte's 2009 Israel Technology Fast 50, Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar's ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Israel.

There's no doubt about it, the Parker School needs to be replaced. You have heard it from all the selectmen, School Committee, superintendent, parents and more than two-thirds of the Town Meeting members.

Selectmen voted unanimously last night to offer the town manager's position to John Curran, who holds the same position in Maynard and is a former mayor in Woburn.

No Published Caption To order this photo please visit our MyCapture site. Patrick Lewis used to sell houses when his own bed was in the back of a Ford Taurus wagon.

At this award-winning "green" company, employees appear to be as serious about reducing waste as they are about fighting the spread of disease.

BILLERICA, Mass. - Oct. 27, 2009 - Echolab, a leading provider of professional video production switchers and broadcast tools, today announced a compelling and cost-effective way for existing customers to migrate to HD production.

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.

The Board of Selectmen will interview the three finalists for town manager on Tuesday, Nov.

Police officers were facing layoffs as Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee put together the department's budget last summer, so the city dive team's small budget was eliminated to help save jobs.

Bringing together resources and knowledge from across the ocean, UMass Lowell, in partnership with Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland and Dublin City University, kicked off a two-day conference on Monday, presenting new research in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, nanotechnology and more.

A shortage in seasonal-flu vaccine has forced the city to postpone its major annual flu clinic at Tsongas Arena as well as a flu clinic at the high school and middle schools.

Ex-head football and baseball coach at Andover High School Ken Maglio said he finally gets to meet with the School Committee to find out why he was not rehired just six weeks before this year's football season started.

Want to help your town? The Billerica Community Alliance says there's an easy way to do it: Patronize local businesses.

A former Boston firefighter from Billerica is one of two men facing fraud charges in federal court for allegedly attempting to collect on an accidental disability pension.

Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire in the Faulkner Mills building on Faulkner Street on Tuesday night, and part of the building was in danger of collapsing.

To all you young mothers and the selectmen and Town Meeting representatives who are for this behemoth of a school: Is this school really necessary? If the design was scaled back, there would be no need for a Proposition 2 1/2 debt exclusion.

About 30 members of a local electrical-workers union protested outside EMD Serono yesterday, demanding that union workers be employed to build a multimillion-dollar expansion at the biopharmaceutical company.

Police reported two bear sightings within the past two days. Police received a report of a bear sighting at Warren H. Manning State Park at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday.

Oct. 16--BURLINGTON -- A Billerica man will face charges of driving under the influence of drugs after State Police say his pickup truck slammed into the back of a trooper's cruiser on Route 128 on Wednesday night.