Fitchburg News

With snow totals measured in inches instead of feet, the storm was more nuisance than menace, but it was timed to hit afternoon commuters, particularly in Fitchburg.

This was the first year I have put a visit to Fitchburg Historical Society's 2013 House Tour in my personal schedule.

Fitchburg State University and the Fitchburg Police Relief Association are joining forces to support the Wounded Warrior Project, organizing a benefit hockey game at the Wallace Civic Center at 7 p.m. Feb. 1 at Wallace Civic Center, 1000 John Fitch Highway.

A key portion of the northern Fitchburg Reservoir watershed will be protected thanks to a state Water Supply Protection Grant.

A Fitchburg man with a prior manslaughter conviction was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail, accused of dragging a man with a car because the man hugged his daughter.

A homeless man indicted last month on a slew of charges, after he allegedly held two women at knifepoint in a Fitchburg laundromat and led police on a high-speed chase on Route 2 in October, is now also accused of stealing a washing-machine coin box from his former apartment two days earlier, according to court documents.

UMass Medical School will terminate its family-medicine residency program at Community Health Connections on June 30 -- but both entities disagree as to what led to that outcome and point to each other as the reason.

And in the Great Brook Valley neighborhood, those odds rise to one in 31. That part of the city with the greatest rate of crime is followed by Chandler Hill , Belmont Hill/Shrewsbury Street , and Chandler Street/Park Avenue .

After the Senate approved a bill in October granting victims of abuse and violence more protection in the workplace, advocacy groups and area lawmakers are hoping the House will take up the issue when sessions resume in January.

The frigid-cold of a December day in New England wasn't enough to keep hundreds of children from pouring into the Fitchburg Municipal Airport Sunday afternoon.

Building professional networks, hearing from ethnic minorities who faced and surmounted roadblocks as they became leaders themselves, and attending an array of informative workshops were the highlights of this year's Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee conference on December 6 and 7. More than 110 participants listened to inspiring speakers and ... (more)

Paul Prewitt-Freilino has been appointed to the position of associate vice president for academic planning and institutional effectiveness at Becker College.

The CenterStage at Fitchburg State University arts and culture series invites you to ring in the season with a holiday extravaganza featuring the Thayer Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Gardner Community Choir and Fitchburg State Chamber Singers on Saturday, at 7:30 p.m., in Weston Auditorium.

The Pet of the Week column is making a difference! Shelter officials say every Pet of the Week featured the past two months was adopted the following week.

The Laurelwood Garden Club of Fitchburg will hold its holiday luncheon meeting Friday, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at The Harley House Inn, 909 Massachusetts Ave., Lunenburg.

Throngs of sight-seers twisted their way through Ernie Maguy's home Saturday afternoon to see his displays of ornaments, baubles, trinkets, adornments and objects of curiosity spread through the bedrooms, alcoves and parlors in his home.

Friday Nights in Fitchburg History Club will meet Friday, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Fitchburg Senior Center, 14 Wallace Ave. Arrive early for a book signing with author Anne O'Connor from 5 to 6 p.m. She will read from her book, "Fitchburg: The Old Hometown," and sign copies for purchasers.

Clinton van available: for Berlin riders on Fridays for shopping to grocery stores in Clinton; the out-of-town-van available to Berlin riders to Worcester on Wednesdays and Fridays.

As if Bill May's off-the-job agenda hasn't been busy enough, the former Townsend police chief-turned author can now add teaching to his post-retirement resume.

For much of that time, he also held a full-time job as an educator in Fitchburg, where he taught for many years at the former B.F. Brown Junior High School before retiring several years ago.