Fitchburg News

Children at the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster were inspired after hearing the story of a little known African-American inventor who blazed a trail for others with his many patents.

Nick Christian 23 of Fitchburg, center, and other Market Basket workers protest outside the Leominster Market Basket today.

Parents tired of parking at Town Hall for their kids' baseball games can be hopeful: The state has approved Westminster's open-space and recreation plan.

Fidelity Bank is considering turning a property it owns at the corner of Main and Day streets into a new branch location, among other options.

The clerk told Officers Antwain Tobin and James McCall that a skinny white woman, about 5 feet 4 inches, and wearing a mask, walked in demanding cash from the cashier Sunday about 2:50 a.m., Sgt.

Looking toward the bustling produce section of the Water Street Market Basket, Adiel Silva knew the commotion wouldn't last too much longer.

The city's building commissioner has issued an opinion that a special permit approved to a developer looking to build homes on a historic apple orchard was legally extended, despite opposition from orchard neighbors.

A crime scene K9 searches near the corner of Adam Street and Pleasant Street in Leominster on March 11 as the police investigate a shooting that happened there.

Fitchburg Police Sgt. Mark Jackson is looking to bring a love of reading to school-age children this summer via the city's trolley system.

Seventeen elected Massachusetts officials on Saturday called for an immediate boycott of Market Basket supermarkets and announced support for employees and members of the public who have protested the ousting of Arthur T. Demoulas as chief executive.

Juan J. Torres of Fitchburg and others work to build a cafe at the former Dante's Restaurant in Worcester.

Many educators feel that music should as important a part of the general curriculum as reading, writing and arithmetic.

Fire heavily damaged a home at 301 Pratt Road Friday night. Fire Capt. Gregg Normandin said when firefighters arrived about 5:45 p.m. flames were showing from three separate windows in the front of the old two-and-a-half-story house.

Police in the Twin Cities arrested a Fitchburg man on home-invasion charges, but not before he led them on a car and foot chase late Thursday into Friday.

Fire investigators were at the scene of a two-alarm fire Friday afternoon that left a Pratt Road home severely damaged.

Troy Thiboutot , 45, of 92 Oak Hill Road, Fitchburg, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 4 years to 4 years and a day in Walpole state prison after pleading guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

A year after its enormously successful exhibition of historic bicycles, the Fitchburg Historical Society is presenting a larger exhibition of classic Iver Johnson Bicycles through July 22. Part of the Wallace Exhibit Series, "Made in Fitchburg, Bicycles by Iver Johnson" is attracting collectors, riders and hobbyists from all over New England to see ... (more)

For a Fitchburg icon, it is a fitting tribute that will be displayed in perpetuity above the very river she worked her entire life to protect.

Fitchburg State University President Robert V. Antonucci is seeking city and community input through Mayor Lisa Wong to assist the university in determining the eventual fate of the Landry Arena.

A Fitchburg woman was in a bad mood and let police know it when they arrived to calm her down Wednesday evening.