Fitchburg News

Trees lie strewn across Rindge Road in Fitchburg on the morning of Dec. 12, 2008.

Rachel Smith and her husband Bruce had just moved back to Lunenburg after living in California for 16 years only two months before the December 2008 ice storm.

Members of Monty Tech's Marine Corps JROTC program are doing their part to maintain the school's longstanding tradition of helping the area's needy during the holiday season.

Celebrate the "Holidays Around the World in Fitchburg" from 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, when the Friday Nights in Fitchburg History Club meets at the Fitchburg Senior Center, 14 Wallace Ave. Arrive early for a 5-6 p.m. book signing with author Anne O'Connor.

North Central Charter Essential School students are joining millions from across the country this week in learning "An Hour of Code," an initiative of Computer Science Education Week.

There is a life-size Santa Claus in Jack Hoover's dining room and a couple of toy reindeer mingling with other animals in an office in his Merriam Avenue home.

A shoplifter who almost got away with $540 of goods from Bob's Store was arrested Saturday after he allegedly punched the store's loss-prevention employee, according to court documents.

The Sprinkler Factory 's Xmas Art Bazaar, a fine arts holiday sale, will take place in their spacious Worcester gallery on December 15th from 11 AM to 5 PM.

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.