Medfield News

Four separate car crashes killed eight people yesterday, casting a pall over a sparkling Fourth of July holiday.

Eight people are dead after four separate Independence Day crashes in eastern Massachusetts, including one yesterday morning in Sudbury and three people killed in Attlboro including two from Walpole and one from Medfield.

A suspected drunken driver was the only person to survive after a single-car crash left three people dead in Walpole on Saturday, police said.

Police officers work to keep the roads safe. And for some that means writing tickets.

The Pop Rocks make it pop! Joe Perdicaro of the Zebra Bistro and Wine Bar in Medfield, Ma., developed this red, white and blue cocktail just for FineLiving.com, drawing his inspiration from the nearby Boston Pops and their nationally broadcast 4th of July concert and fireworks show.

Did anyone bother to check Turner Pond for Phil Gingras after the annual Village Fair Road Race Saturday? As a cross-country runner for Walpole High, the Westfield State Scholar Athlete of the year and new Norwood resident began the tradition of jumping headlong into the water alongside the course in Milton that hosted the Bay State Conference ...

Gil and Mary Hartman , of 7 Locke St, in Dover, are proud to announce their granddaughter, Chelsea Robertson, will be traveling to Austria to play volleyball for the United States this summer.

"Linux-enabled back-end systems are in very widespread use for cataloging books and other library content, acknowledged Curl, who heads up Medfield, MA-based Enertex Systems.

A Cedarville woman may have spotted a black bear just three miles from the Cape Cod Canal, local and state officials said.

Marisa Ryan, a third-year medical student at Boston University, hasn't had much free time lately.

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Take a guided walk on Saturday morning of the Charles River Link , a regional trail connecting two major trails in Boston MetroWest , the Bay Circuit Trail in Medfield and the future extension of the Charles River Reservation Path from Newton to Wellesley.A The Wellesley Trails Committee -led walk of the 16-mile trail starts with an 8:30am ...

It costs about $20,000 to train a service dog. That's nothing to bark at. To take the bite out of the costs, the Fitchburg Community Lions Club is holding its 14th annual "Walkin" Dog-a-Thon at Coolidge Park on Sunday, June 7 at 9 a.m. The profits will be sent to the Princeton-based National Education for Assistance Dog Services in Princeton.

Mary Fitzgerald was one of two centenarians who greeted President Mary McAleese in Dorchester's Florian Hall.

A lightning strike Sunday evening sparked a fire that destroyed eight condominium units at Royal Crest Estates in Walpole, Fire Chief Timothy Bailey said.

The University of Vermont graduated nearly 2800 students Sunday, marking the end of a challenging academic year both in and out of the classrooms.

The fee hikes are coming on top of layoffs, furloughs, wage freezes and service cuts intended to cope with falling property-tax revenues and drastic cuts to local aid.

May 14, 2009 10:53 pm US/Eastern These days, it's tough to sell a home and few can afford those pricey renovation projects that were so common just a few years ago.

Intel is cooking up its own system on a chip, codenamed Medfield, and it promises to bring laptop power to smartphones in just two years' time.

This winter, Dan Maybruck cut the electricity costs for his Kingston home in half, trimming about $200 from the bill each month.