Pepperell News

The cost of major renovations to the existing high school or replacing the 50-year-old building is about the same, according to figures presented at a community forum held by the School Building Committee Monday.

In her first year as superintendent of the North Middlesex Regional School District, Joan Landers has worked through a difficult budget cycle and helped launch the feasibility study for a high-school building project.

Beginning May 20, 2013, the Pepperell Assessors Office will be conducting a data-quality review of its records for approximately 5 percent of the properties in town.

Fort Devens Museum will hold an open house on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 94 Jackson Road as part of Armed Forces Day.

Every Memorial Day, many in our community visit local cemeteries to pay respects to those who served in the United States Armed Forces.

It's a fact that Leigh Ann Colvin was stunned to discover on a recent afternoon when her neighbor called her name to draw her attention to a fence.

Fitchburg State senior track star Zach Desrochers of Dracut and hockey player Joseph Caveney shared the Paul K. Waring '38 Male Athlete of the Year honor at the FSU athletic banquet.

The Shirley Center Farmers Market is revving up for its second season, which will begin on Thursday, July 11, and will run through Oct.

Thanks to the Pepperell Fourth of July Committee, the North Middlesex Athletic Boosters will be hosting an information table at the Spring Fair on May 18.

A quickly spreading fire destroyed a Lost Lake home at 99 Boathouse Road this afternoon.

Country Day School presents "King Midas and the Palace of Gold": King Midas is the powerful ruler who can think only of gold.

Public Works Director Kenneth Kalinowski expressed his pride to the Board of Public Works after the Water Division received the MassDEP's Public Water System Award for Medium and Large Community.

Members of the armed forces, veterans, families, and area residents are all invited to Fort Devens Museum's annual Armed Forces Day open house on Saturday, May 18, at 94 Jackson Road, Devens.

This May 3rd, I had the honor and pleasure of attending the Annual Legislative Breakfast hosted by the Department of Developmental Service's Central Region Citizen's Advisory Board.

Water, water, everywhere..... but Chelmsford's is the best. Okay... that might not be how that line goes, but Chelmsford residents can take pride in the fact that the stuff coming out of their faucets is coming from a system that earned a Public Water System Award from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection .

Proposed zoning amendments were hotly contested at Town Meeting Monday. The changes, had it passed, would have increased the amount of land available for commercial use from 60 to 90 acres.

Pepperell Music Center will be hosting a night of live music with Davey O at 8 p.m. Please call for reservations as this will be Davey's ONLY appearance in this area.

Pepperell Community Church will hold its Spring Festival/Yard Sale Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the church lawn at Three Townsend Street, Pepperell.

Schools, parents and children are not the only stakeholders in the high school, said Robert Templeton, chairman of the school building committee.

Michelle Gallagher won a three-year seat on the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday, besting Al Buckley for an open seat on the board.