Palmer News

Connecticut casinos are posting negative numbers and are stopping expansions, but plans for a Palmer expansion are going full steam ahead.

Some Faragon Avenue residents are complaining that a noisy, messy mix of pet and stray cats is taking over their neighborhood.

State Rep. Todd M. Smola, R-Palmer, and state Sen. Michael Moore, D-Millbury, have been named Legislators of the Year by the Massachusetts Police Association.

A casino impact study committee member has expressed his frustration with the Town Council for failing to meet with his committee before five of the nine councilors came out in favor of a casino in town.

With the holiday shopping season upon us, this is where I shamelessly promote biker-friendly businesses to give you ideas on what to get the biker in your life for gifts.

State Rep. Todd M. Smola told the crowd at the Veterans Day ceremony at Bondsville Grammar Park on Wednesday about a teacher from Little Rock, Ark., who taught her students a lesson about veterans.

Twenty-six years ago, Mark A. Avis' neighbor told him he should join the local American Legion, Merrill L. Simonds Post 130.

When the Steaming Tender opened in the restored Palmer railroad station in 2004, its novelty and soundly prepared meat and seafood offerings, served trackside to the passing tremors of freight and passenger trains, were all that was needed for a rewarding family dining experience.

One lane has reopened on Route 20 , following an early Wednesday morning car crash that shut down a mile-long section of the road from Breckenridge Street to Thorndike Street for hours.

The School Committee race could bring out voters today, as two political newcomers, Gary A. Blanchette and Gary T. O'Brien, attempt to oust longtime members Mary A. Salzmann and David M. Lynch.

Worcester Driver faces charges in 7-car smashup WORCESTER - A Penn Avenue man is facing several motor vehicle charges after police said his car struck five parked cars and slammed into another car on Shrewsbury Street Sunday night.

Big gambling interests clashed with opponents on Thursday during a legislative hearing that launched a new campaign to open casinos in Palmer or other locations in the state.

Police in Ludlow are working with their counterparts in two other communities to determine if a 28-year-old Brockton man who held up a convenience store here at knifepoint Sunday night was responsible for other recent robberies.

LUDLOW / PALMER, Mass. - A 28-year-old Brockton man tried to use a fast food drive-thru more like a walk-up A-T-M. The man, identified as Jason Delaney, is still at large and the drive-thru employees at the Palmer McDonalds, and Wendy's are terrified that the fast-food banditi with a craving for cash, may strike again.

The Belchertown Land Trust plans to seek an extension to its Nov. 30 deadline for devising a plan to either repair the Upper Bondsville Dam or take it down.

BROMSBERROW History Group will host a talk by Roy Palmer MA from Malvern entitled Traditional Song in Gloucestershire, featuring singing both live and recorded.

A state commission examining the pros and cons of bringing expanded gambling to New Hampshire was told yesterday that to get the most bang for its buck, the state should act before Massachusetts does.

"Deal or No Deal" host Howie Mandel shopping the shelves at CVS in Downtown Crossing .

A real estate developer who hopes to build a resort-style casino in Massachusetts said he has an option to buy more than 200 acres of land along Interstate 495 in Milford and has lined up a partner.

Palmer police are searching for two white males who reportedly showed a small black handgun to a couple and took a woman's purse at Burleigh Park on Old Warren Road on Friday afternoon before they ran off into the woods.