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Alison Porter of Ayer lost her dog last year to old age. She said, "It's time, definitely," when filling out an application to adopt "Madison," a 4-month-old brindle-colored Plott hound.
Black Mass. paper halts operation
N ews that The Bay State Banner - the largest and oldest black-owned publication in New England - is suspending publication amid dwindling advertising revenues hit hard yesterday.
AMERICA IS OFTEN called a nation of joiners, and the landscape of any community testifies to our desire to belong - from the Masonic lodge to the city softball league to the suburban megachurch.
The Patrick approach to politics
GOVERNOR Deval Patrick hired Barack Obama's campaign manager to help run his 2010 reelection bid.
Clayton L. Guyett, 85, of Harvard, died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Life Care Center of Acton, Mass., following a long illness.
City dance party tonight in Cambridge
Tonight, the city will cut loose. Hundreds are expected to groove during Cambridge's annual dance party on Massachusetts Avenue.
Harvard Police, Fire and Ambulance personnel are now armed with 'shocking' new weapons for the war on cardiac arrest.
Museum's former CFO charged with $1.3M theft
The former chief financial officer of the 95-year-old Fruitlands Museum in Harvard has been criminally charged with embezzling more than $1.3 million from the museum.
Former museum official charged with embezzlement
A former chief financial officer of a Massachusetts museum has been indicted in connection with an alleged embezzlement of more than $1.3 million.
Reflections on failure: JBOS considers Vicksburg Sq. retry
Just three days after the "Super" Town Meeting last week, which failed to grant a use change for Vicksburg Square, the Joint Boards of Selectmen for Ayer, Harvard and Shirley met at their next regularly scheduled meeting.
More Families Pull The Plug On Their Home Phone
The concept of a home phone may soon be going the way of the corner pay phone. Government research shows that more and more households are getting rid of their land line.
On Sunday, Harvard Historical Society President Carlene Phillips delivered opening remarks before cutting the ribbon at the entrance to the new display room for the museum on Still River Road.
Isaac Newton's Apple Tree Grows at Tufts
Thanks to an eminent Tufts cosmologist and his colleagues, Tufts University has received cuttings from an apple tree at MIT that traces its lineage to the English farm where Sir Isaac Newton lived in the 1600s.
Enthusiasm builds for town's military-covenant event
According to planners, an event intended to mark the occasion of a special partnership between the town and the families of its veterans and those currently serving in the armed forces is on schedule and highly anticipated.
The return of back-of-bike cam: Shaker ruins, Harvard, MA - June 2009. For more information on the Shakers, click here .
Ayer sinks housing plan at Devens after Harvard and Shirley approve it
Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.
Protest criticizes workthat threatens Ayer's aquifer
You can say the decade-long brawl between Ayer and Pan Am railways is at a crossroads -- literally.
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