Fitchburg News

More than 200 homes lost power Tuesday afternoon after a low-hanging utility wire was snagged by a tractor-trailer near the intersection of Summer and Poplar streets.

One of the owners of the former Immaculate Conception church says internal organizational restructuring is delaying the Colomba Legacy Center from opening.

We wish Fitchburg Housing Director Ryan McNutt well as he prepares to step into his new job as town administrator for the town of Lancaster.

The City Council approved all but one piece of Mayor Lisa Wong's supplemental budget, asking that $21,475 requested for an information-technology employee be used instead for police overtime for Main Street foot patrols.

Each Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. now through Aug. 20, the city's Recreation Department is sponsoring free Concerts on the Common, featuring a mixture of different types of music for all ages performed by local bands, according to Jon Ricciutti, chairman of the Board of Parks Commissioners.

Organizers behind next month's charity motorcycle ride say they care more about spreading the word about suicide prevention than raising money.

McNutt is the former chief of staff for Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong and an Army National Guard veteran who served in the Iraq war.

Police recovered two bullets shot into a Leyte Road home Sunday about 10:50 p.m., said Capt.

Doucet, 23, won a radio-station contest to sing a duet with country-music star Keith Urban during Saturday's concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield.

McGrath, president of the North Central Massachusetts chapter of the Patriot Riders of America, said the group wasn't there to raise money or recruit members, but to help build and honor the veteran community.

Alicia Gentile of Groton and Jakob Vandal of Shirley have been selected as June's Students of the Month at Nashoba Valley Technical High School.

People gathered around tables while keeping an eye on the smoke drifting from the grill is a common sight on a lovely summer day.

People gathered around tables while keeping an eye on the smoke drifting from the grill is a common sight on a lovely summer day.

After sitting vacant for many years, the former Pelletier's Building Supply property at 133 Water St. is now being marketed for retail development.

The Title I Department of the Fitchburg Public Schools has been holding a Summer Reading and Writing Enrichment Camp, called Journeys, for children entering grades kindergarten through grade 4. Due to the success of last year's program the camp expanded this summer to include 65 students.

Nineteen Fitchburg High School students, including all elected 2014-2015 class presidents, several other class officers, and six members of the new Fitchburg Youth Commission were selected for or chose to participate with student leaders from across New England attending the Coalition for the Advancement of Student Activities' Student Leadership ... (more)

Planning for the 21st annual Johnny Appleseed Festival, set for Sept. 27, is well under way, and organizers expect it to be at least as big as last year's, which was its biggest ever.

While Fitchburg resident James Craigen was grocery shopping last year, he bumped into a familiar group of three siblings with their adopted mother.

Twenty-three-year-old Whitney V. Doucet will be the envy of hundreds when she goes on stage at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, N.H., Saturday night to sing a duet with Keith Urban.

The group behind the proposed Academy for the Whole Child Charter School has once again submitted a proposal for review by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.