Erving News

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A 38-year-old Townsend woman, who took off to Brazil with her 4-year-old son in February, was arrested as she got off a plane with the boy at Logan Airport on Thursday afternoon and was charged with custodial kidnapping.

Massachusetts has already approved $187.4 million in highway and mass-transportation projects funded by the massive federal stimulus bill, besting its goal of approving $153.2 million in projects by Monday, June 29.

The communication center at the police station on Brookline Street is undergoing a $250,000 upgrade in equipment that will eventually let the police and fire departments share information, police said.

The man who died after leaping from the French King Bridge Tuesday apparently drove to the area from Middlesex County, officials say.

Town meeting members set a $6,815,376 operating budget for the year, a 1.3 percent, or $87,155, increase from the current year's $6,728,221 budget.

Ryan P. Doherty, a police officer in Erving ,directs traffic in a construction zone along Route 2 on Thursday.

Jean Derderian of New Salem is a very determined woman. President of the New Salem Historical Society, she lives across the town common from the now abandoned former New Salem Academy.

State transportation officials said civilian flaggers would be out working on paving and catch basin cleaning jobs in Sutton, Winchendon, Orange, New Braintree and other parts of the state yesterday in an effort to replace more costly police road construction details.

A law that would restrict building on hilltops, rules for adult entertainment businesses and a resolution aimed at asserting the importance of keeping local control of schools in the face of regionalization are among the issues to be tackled at Wednesday's annual town meeting.

This is one of the most moving and memorable Memorial Day observances you will ever attend,'' said Elizabeth Peirce of Orange.

The Franklin Regional Council of Governments has been awarded its third $200,000 hazardous-material assessment grant to prepare for cleanup of contaminated sites under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields program.

Police Chief Erving Marshall made his position clear to the Board of Selectmen this week.

Firefighters from 15 departments spent nearly four hours knocking down a brush fire sparked by a passing train.

By PATRICK JOHNSON pjohnson@repub.com ERVING - Town police arrested a 47 year-old Pittsfield man Wednesday after he sent obscene photographs of himself over the Internet to a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl, Police Chief Christopher M. Blair said Thursday.

Erving Paper Mills Inc., its parent company and another subsidiary have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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When their daughter was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at age 3, the only medical specialist Andrea S. Zeller could find was at Shriners Hospital for Children.

Mass. stimulus projects out to bid

Elwyn J. Ball, 91, of 1925 Possum Hollow Road, a longtime resident of Crescent City, Fla., and Shelburne Falls, Mass., passed away peacefully on Saturday, Feb.