Blackstone News

Despite torrential rain and the threat of severe thunderstorms, more than 60 Sutton and Douglas residents, state and local officials packed the selectmen's meeting room yesterday afternoon for the state-held meeting on Manchaug Reservoir Corp.'s petition to breach the Manchaug Pond Dam.

The Miss Massachusetts Scholarship Pageant will be held at Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts on July 10 and 11, a change of venue that organizers hope will make the pageant more accessible to Massachusetts residents.

Judge Robert G. Harbour Edison M. Centeio, 28, of 42 Alvarado Ave., Apt. 2, Worcester, charged with disorderly conduct, dismissed; disturbing the peace, continued without a finding for three months, $100 cost.

Recently, 220 members from five community chorus groups representing 40 cities and towns in Central Massachusetts accepted an invitation to blend their alto, soprano, tenor and bass voices in a night of song.

Two Massachusetts teens have died after a car crash in Rhode Island that police believe was alcohol-related. Rhode Island State Police have identified the victims as 19-year-old Marcello Ventrella of Bellingham and 19-year-old Aram Pothier of Blackstone.

The four 19-year-old Massachusetts men involved in an early morning crash on Route 295 in Rhode Island may have been drinking.

Almost 100 Massachusetts communities from Sunderland to Somerset are exceeding state guidelines that aim to limit residential water use to 65 gallons a day per person, drawing down water in dozens of Massachusetts rivers and streams and imperiling the region's bounty of freshwater fish.

Massachusetts health officials have confirmed 69 more cases of swine flu in the state, for a total of 854 since the start of the outbreak.

Massachusetts health officials have confirmed 69 more cases of swine flu in the state, for a total of 854 since the start of the outbreak.

The governor could not have imagined the long-term effects of the revival. In 1740, 269 years ago, Worcester County, Massachusetts and New England got hit by a double whammy - the Land Bank paper money scheme and the religious Great Awakening that tore through society like a hurricane.

Lindsey Larsen already has what many of her fellow Elmira College graduates are hoping for: a job.

After winning gold medals at the SkillsUSA 35th annual State Leadership and Skills conference, Monty Tech students will be advancing to the prestigious national competition to be held next month in Kansas City, Mo.

Two Cumberland women will be due in court soon to answer to allegations that they used the stolen identity of a 76-year-old Blackstone, Mass.

Sunday, May 17, 2009 Numerous activities upcoming as Memorial Day nears VETERANS NOTESVETERANS NOTES WORCESTER - Korean War Memorial committee member Ken Swift, right, congratulates Korean War veteran Richard Castle of Worcester after he received a commemorative lapel pin during yesterday's 'Korea Remembered' ceremony at the memorial on Major ...

Northbridge and the Blackstone Valley are missing one of their most stalwart community pillars with the untimely death of Spaulding R. Aldrich.

With three of the band's four members female, folks like me who yearn for more kick-ass chicks in music won't be disappointed.

Ken Prior grew up in a time when Catholics and Protestants didn't mingle. He was 12 years old when he invited a Catholic friend to his Sunday School Christmas party, and his friend's parents wouldn't allow him to attend.

For 17-year-old Christopher J. Tisdell it was all about options when he chose to leave his hometown high school to go to a vocational-technical high school.

The city will share $3.5 million in state land conservation grants, and in doing so will add 5.3 acres of forest to 400 acres of protected open space.

Taco is a spoiled, fat Chihuahua who has spent most of his days riding in a car, with stops at Dairy Queen and McDonald's, and lying on his Betty Boop boogie board while family members pull him around the pool.