Millbury News

E. Bernard Plante presided over his final Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday, ending his 24-year tenure as a selectman and entering retirement from public service with good wishes from family, friends and former colleagues.

John Henry's Millbury printing press could come in handy now that the owner of The Boston Globe has hired Colliers International to put the Globe's Dorchester complex on the block.

The Easter Bunny leans out of a chopper this afternoon and spreads plastic eggs stuffed with candy onto the football field at Whitinsville Christian Academy for Lifesong Church's annual Helicopter Egg Drop .

Thieves have been ransacking and stealing cars along the Route 20 corridor over the past week, according to Andrea Warpula of the Millubry Police Department.

The $2.9 million expansion project for Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School will move to town meeting in each of its 13 member communities.

MILLBURY, MAa In recognition of this, Millbury -based Accountant Paul Dion, CPA, CTC authored "The Pocket Guide to Obamacare".

Apr. 18, 2014 - MILLBURY, Mass. -- Justice Is Mind , the 8th highest rated independent feature film released in 2013 on IMDB, is pleased to announce that the psychological courtroom drama will screen at the Elm Draught House Cinema in Millbury, Massachusetts on May 19, 2014 at 7 PM.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday devoted much attention to assuring that Region C - Southeastern Mass.

The Humanities Scholars Collaborative's 19th annual presentation night will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. April 28 in the Auburn High School auditorium, 96 Auburn St. Parents and guardians, school administrators and staff are welcome at this free event.

The three similar attacks happened on Main, Millbury and Chatham streets over the course of the last month.

As a water company foreman and Millbury selectman, I wanted to take time out and offer my perspective on the forthcoming Oxford town meeting warrant article concerning the proposed takeover of Aquarion Water Company's water system in Oxford.

Millbury Savings Bank has its first new president in more than two decades. At its recent annual and board of trustees meetings, the bank named Robert J. Morton president and chief operating officer, succeeding President William J. Walsh.

A shelter houses the massive blowers for the aeration tanks, part of the sewage treatment process at the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District's wastewater treatment facility in Millbury.

When Worcester County Sheriff Lewis G. Evangelidis heard an inmate say he uses sticks of wood in his windows to prevent break-ins, he went home and used sticks of wood to secure his windows.

Oprah Winfrey once remarked that "Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it."

On a 15-acre hilltop, nearly 15,000 solar panels face the south. Within eight weeks, the solar field will begin feeding renewable power to the existing electrical grid, providing discounted electricity for Millbury schools and other public buildings.

Three significant requests to extend the deadline for submission of applications in Phase 2 of the process to award a casino license in Region C will be considered by the state Gaming Commission Today.

Nancy Elizabeth Doherty, 74, passed away at home, surrounded by her family on Sunday, March 30, after a long illness.

Chicago developer Rush Street Gaming has emerged from the shadows of the state's casino competition nearly eight months after abandoning plans for a slot machine parlor in Millbury.

A judge Monday denied a Millbury police officer's motion that a restraining order against him be amended to allow him to get his service weapon back in order for him to keep his job.