New Braintree News

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.

Area *Kindergarten registration for children in Barre, Hardwick, Hubbardston, New Braintree and Oakham.

Massachusetts officials have announced that four more highway projects - valued at $6.4 million - will get started with federal stimulus money.

Selectmen want to take a look at letting the state police dispatch center handle emergency calls, rather than having the calls go to local dispatchers.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com LUDLOW - Two alert police officers arrested a 26-year-old New Braintree man, wanted on an open warrant, after a routine traffic stop Monday night just over the town line in ...

When Lt. Col. Marian J. McGovern joined the ranks of the Massachusetts State Police 29 years ago, there were three female state troopers.

United in their quest for waivers on the state's requirement of 180 days of school, about a dozen administrators in communities hard hit by last month's ice storm are meeting with state Department of Elementary ...

Confused by the terms "organic," "grass-fed," "all-natural"?? If so, get some clarification with farmers Kim Denney and Kate Stillman .

Electronic communication equipment in the State Police Regional Dispatching Center was paid for with the help of state Sen.

They used to call her Mother Nature, but some of those left reeling from an ice storm just over a week ago now believe they had a visit from the Grinch who stole Christmas.

Woman killed in crash on I-290 MARLBORO -- A woman was killed early yesterday morning when her 1995 Ford Explorer went off Interstate 290 east, struck a tree and caught fire.

The Quabbin Regional School District, which includes Barre, Hardwick, Hubbardston, New Braintree and Oakham, has canceled school for Monday, according to police departments in Barre and Hubbardston.

Woman killed in crash on I-290 MARLBORO -- A woman was killed early yesterday morning when her 1995 Ford Explorer went off Interstate 290 east, struck a tree and caught fire.