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Bridgewater: Friday, Battle of the Bands, East Bridgewater Commercial Club, 7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m., parade; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., arts and crafts festival, food, games, music at Boyden Hall, Bridgewater State College.

Sports are about so much more than winning. And sustaining youth sports programs takes more than just your valuable time and effort.

Next Saturday is the last Saturday the library will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., until Sept.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set in motion a 2009 competition for multiyear research funding in two major areas of national interest, civil infrastructure and manufacturing, under its Technology Innovation Program .

NO WRONGDOING, SHE INSISTS Representative Gloria Fox disputes a prison guard's allegation that she had misrepresented the identity of the woman with her, calling her an aide.

An apple a day keeps the trash bags at bay. That's what students at Bridgewater Elementary School learned after three weeks of sorting cafeteria waste for composting as part of the school's Green Team environmental initiative.

In the '70s, Boy Scouts in Norwell's Troop 66 would canoe on the Wampanoag Passage.

Bridgewater firefighter admitted striking a selectman after a dispute over proposed layoffs, and now he says he's sorry.

Eighty-two years years after Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island and flew into history, a group of aviators will reenact his flight over the Bay State on his way to Paris.

S tate Rep. Gloria L. Fox is under state scrutiny for allegedly sneaking a murderer's girlfriend - previously bagged for engaging in "sexual acts" with the killer con - into a state prison in Bridgewater, the Herald has learned.

The following is a list of building permit recipients, contractors when applicable, property address, a job description and permit fees for April.

A man authorities said could be with a Minnesota teenager who ran away to avoid chemotherapy did the same thing more than a decade ago in Massachusetts.

May 20, 2009 4:27 pm US/Eastern Billy Best Massachusetts cancer victim who ran away from home rather than undergo chemotherapy.

Nearly three-quarters of the aspiring elementary school teachers who took the state's licensing exam this year failed the new math section, according to results being released today that focus on the subject for the first time.

A 73-year-old Whitman woman died in a two-alarm fire that was stoked by medical oxygen tanks inside her house, but her four grandchildren and a babysitter were able to escape, fire officials said.

Students from J.P Stevens High School in Edison are holding a fundraiser benefit at an auditorium located on 130 Old Farm Road in Bridgewater at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 9. This event will raise money for the Save Lives Foundation, which is an orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A mental health patient at Bridgewater State Hospital, a corrections facility that sought to keep the man committed there out of concern for his safety, died Monday night after a scuffle with corrections officers.

Charlton man awaiting trial on charges he assaulted staff at a Southbridge psychiatric facility died Monday night after he was restrained by correction officers for allegedly acting up at Bridgewater State Hospital.