New Braintree News

Hubbardston Center School is closed today because of the high number of student absences because of illness.

The Tri-Parish Church Harvest Dinner and Silent Auction, set for Nov. 7 at the New Braintree Town Hall, is a celebration of local food showcased by a buffet prepared by Reed's Catering of New Braintree.

Houston's replacement is still weeks away from graduating from the police academy in New Braintree at an additional cost of $2,500 to the town, Brewster Police Chief Richard Koch said.

An organizational meeting of the Quabbin Regional Citizens Audit Committee Thursday night drew a promise of cooperation from School Superintendent Maureen M. Marshall and praise from the advocate for school budget accountability.

Quabbin Regional School Committee members and district administrators are optimistic an additional cut of $228,382 from the proposed fiscal 2010 budget will be enough to gain voter approval in Hardwick or Oakham.

It used to be that if you said you were going 'No Place,' around these parts it meant you had an actual destination.

Superintendent Anne L. Towle announced last night that she will retire from her post at the end of the school year.

The Quabbin Regional School District is paying its bills one month at a time on the basis of a fiscal 2010 budget of nearly $33 million that three of the five district towns have rejected as being too costly.

A 10-year veteran of the town Police Department has been hired as the town's next police chief.

A 10-year veteran of the town Police Department has been hired as the town's next police chief.

Although the Quabbin Regional School District School Committee trimmed $100,000 from its originally proposed fiscal 2010 budget, a local selectman is accusing the committee of 'misinformation' and bleeding district towns dry.

For some school districts, "sharing resources" means teaming up with their counterparts to buy copy paper and pens.

State transportation officials said civilian flaggers will be out working on paving and catch basin cleaning jobs in Sutton, Winchendon, Orange, New Braintree and other parts of the state today in an effort to replace more costly police road construction details.

It is a training school without new trainees. The state's Municipal Police Training Committee, which prepares police recruits from across the state for their new assignments, has not launched a single program for new officers in more than six months.

Buildings burning to the ground, police not responding to emergency calls and town roads not being plowed are some of the grim scenarios portrayed if towns must make more cuts to free up money for the Quabbin Regional School District budget.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld animal cruelty convictions against a woman who kept five starving cats and one underfed Great Dane in her Beacon Hill apartment and who, in several separate cases, tangled legal authorities and landlords in several Central Massachusetts towns, including Webster, Sterling and New Braintree.

There's not so much as a snowflake in tomorrow's forecast, and Jessica A. Bennett couldn't be happier - even though she's orchestrating a 'Christmas in April' fair at the New Braintree Grade School gym, cafeteria and nearby Town Hall auditorium.

Mass. stimulus projects out to bid

Worcester Police investigate double stabbing WORCESTER - Two males were stabbed last night in front of a Beacon Street house.