Chelmsford News

Call it a seven-year itch. Since Tony & Ann's Pizza closed in North Chelmsford in 2002, rumors swirled that the family of the pizzeria's founders, Tony and Ann Privitera, would revive the business.

Mosquitoes in Dracut hate Mondays, too. The cloudy skies, cool temperatures and above-average rainfall that's dominated the month of June is likely to produce a "moderate increase" in mosquitoes for the rest of summer, according to Timothy Deschamps, executive director of the Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project.

The Billerica Zoning Board of Appeals approved a major housing project Tuesday night, the Lowel Sun reports.

The crack in the foundation was visible in 1987. Now the floor of the Chelmsford Center Fire Station is crumbling.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., BUSINESS WIRE -- Axis Communications , the global leader in the network video market, today announced that three of its courses have been recognized and accepted by BISCI for Continuing Education Credits and by the National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association for Continuing Education Units.

A single mother, a Harvard research scientist and a school-bus driver. The people living along Groton Road don't look the same, but now many are sharing the same title ever since company executives from Newport Materials Inc., proposed to build a hot-mix asphalt plant next door to their homes: community activist.

State police were investigating a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 495 in Chelmsford that killed a Tyngsboro woman.

The Fins and Feathers Pets Inc., is holding a Pet Day event from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday to help benefit A Second Chance Animal Shelter.

Robert A. Edelstein, MD Chelmsford, Massachusetts rob.edelstein@comcast.net JAMA.

The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has annulled one of the town's newest bylaws, ruling that a measure seeking to regulate power plants is "inconsistent" with state law.

Life can rise from ashes. After working the Sunny Meadow Farm for 50 years, not even a raging fire could destroy the seeds Walter and Betty Lewis had planted.

In the movie Groundhog Day, weatherman Phil Connors finds himself living the same day over and over again.

After Chelmsford Town Meeting voted to reduce the Nashoba Valley Technical High budget, the Nashoba Tech School Committee asked some of the state's leading law-enforcement departments whether the vote violated the law.

Police said they confiscated 100 beers and charged eight minors during an underage-drinking party Saturday night at a residence on Morningside Drive.

Six people were hurt when two Toyota Corollas collided head-on near the Lime Quarry Reservation on Littleton Road Wednesday afternoon, forcing police to close the road for more than an hour.

The sales of all Massachusetts State Lottery tickets at the Visitors Center on I-495 in Chelmsford have been temporarily stopped and its manager fired after an audit uncovered a "discrepancy" with the sales.

On the heels of a recent notification of a Level 3 sex offender living in town, Police Chief James Murphy presented information to selectmen last night on the notification policy for registered sex offenders.

The city and the Lowell Regional Transit Authority should "recoup" salary money paid to two appointed officials because it was earned in violation of a state law, according to the state's top pension official.

He was a Yankees fan in Billerica, a beloved blow-in who gave 22 years of his life to Billerica's public schools and put two of his own sons through the system.

Joey McCafferty pitched and hit Chelmsford to a season-opening 10-1 victory over Wakefield during Northeast League action.