Charlton News

The Registry of Motor Vehicles office on West Main Street, which underwent extensive renovations two years ago, will close due to budget cuts, the registry announced yesterday.

A man has been struck by lightning and traffic problems reported as thunderstorms move across Massachusetts.

All dressed up with no place to go is the theme of this year's strawberry crop, and with the season winding down this weekend, the biggest and sweetest berries in recent memory still hang on the vine.

The vans pull up to the entrance of Summit ElderCare on Grafton Street, a place that looks more like an upscale motel than a medical facility.

Go fly a kite. Really. Children ages 4 to 12 will be encouraged to do just that Saturday at the Children's Kite Flying Classic at Memorial Field, Charlton Public Library, 40 Main St., Charlton.

Two local teens allegedly made and placed chemical reaction bombs that exploded in mailboxes in Oxford.

Despite the economy, East Brookfield's annual Fourth of July celebration will be held in two weeks, again capped off with a fireworks display.

Have you ever emerged from the couch, energized by a fresh dose of excitement delivered by an episode of "Man vs.

The City Council expressed outrage last night that the city received not a dime from the $185 million in federal stimulus money to Massachusetts for water and sewer projects.

The good news for the town is the state's $2 million road construction project of Route 31 is under way, but the bad news is that motorists will likely experience delays on the two-lane roadway for the next several months.

Charlton poet Francine D'Alessandro has been named the winner of the Worcester County Poetry Association's annual poetry contest, judged by poet and scholar James Haug.

Jun 12, 2009 10:16 am US/Eastern I know a few middle school aged kids and I would have to say for the most part they're pretty hyper.

They're providing a means by which the private and public sectors can be brought together.

One smiling, robed graduate was missing at yesterday's University of Massachusetts Medical School commencement ceremony.

The 2009 Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival in Charlton offers visitors a chance to become participants in the medieval faire.

The Dudley-Charlton Regional School Committee last night ratified an agreement with its teachers union to eliminate cost-of-living pay increases in the fiscal year starting July 1. In March, the committee adopted a $45.5 million fiscal 2010 budget predicated on $29.1 million in state aid, $914,946 from district reserves and $15.5 million from ...

State officials are asking area communities to shoulder 25 percent of the cost to clean up from December's ice storm.

By Scott J. Croteau TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF scroteau@telegram.com Bug ID sought in Douglas People living in Royalston and Charlton each thought they had an Asian longhorned beetle cruising through their yards today, but now believe they have a look-alike insect known as the white-spotted pine sawyer beetle.

May 24, 2009 6:14 pm US/Eastern Sunday's thunderstorms dropped hail in several parts of Massachusetts.

In Central Massachusetts, 25 cities and towns logged increases in citation revenue, three had little or no change and 43 municipalities saw their ticket revenue decline over the period.