Devens News

The environmentally friendly "green" movement isn't talked about enough in preschool and elementary-school classrooms, according to Leominster resident Liz Cali.

The lawyer for Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr., who is accused of trying to recruit fellow inmates to kill a Patriarca crime family rival, has moved for a delay in the case, saying St.

It used to be when the wiseguys who run the Mafia from Federal Hill in Providence decided to replace personnel at their branch office in the North End of Boston, somebody would end up dead.

Rust-colored sediment and putrid-looking growth on submerged branches in the 30-acre Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove do not invite wading, fishing or even foot-dipping. It's the Army's job to determine if its past activities present risk to either humans or the ecology.

The Boston Herald is reporting in Monday's editions that experts are saying there's a good chance Bernard Madoff will do his time at Devens federal prison hospital.

Nathan Buckley knows the word "comrades" takes on new meaning when fighting in a war zone.

Ole Miss Women's Golfer Sara Grantham is out of the U.S. Women's Publinks Tournament, but she put up a heck of a fight.

You know it's summer when the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps performs its annual Battle Color Ceremony and concert at Eldredge Park, Route 28 and Eldredge Park Way.

The news from Detroit can't get much worse. And unemployment rates are likely to climb ever higher.

As I see in the paper about the deployment of troops from Camp Shelby, it reminds me of my own military experience.

Residents at Monday night's special Town Meeting voted nearly unanimously to support amending zoning requirements for the Vicksburg Square area of the former Fort Devens.

Massachusetts gets a dubious distinction today -- it becomes the new home of the first federal judge to go to prison since 1991.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent holds his wife's hand as she walks away from the Bob Casey Federal Court House after being sentenced 33 months behind bars.

On May 14, the Joint Boards of Selectmen expressed its concerns regarding increased local road truck traffic from Devens, particularly along the Barnum Road, Route 111, Route 2A rotary at the entrances of Ayer and Harvard.

Walter Hedlund turned 88 yesterday, and no one was more surprised than he. The day before Hedlund turned 23, he was one of thousands of American GIs, working the sands of Omaha Beach, on D-Day. There was no time for cake, nor a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday" from his brethren.

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

David Glispin, founder and president of Sunshine Sign in North Grafton, wondered whether there could be a fast-tracked permitting program, similar to projects that have been pushed through in Worcester and Devens, for smaller businesses.

Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.

A wealthy Glen Head developer who is already serving an 8-year sentence for his role in a 2007 congressional corruption scandal was charged Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn with masterminding a $90-million mortgage scam.

Most notably, the rezoning proposal would permit multifamily uses for the historic buildings, along with small-scale retail development to service the future homesteaders.