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Friday | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Police clear teacher accused in duct tape incident at school

Police yesterday concluded that no crime was committed last month at Spaulding Elementary School, where a first-grade teacher was rumored to have put duct tape on children's mouths.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Official a finalist in Pepperell

Town Administrator Charles T. Blanchard is one of three finalists for that position in Pepperell.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Lowell Sun

Changing of the guard

Command of U.S. Army Garrison Fort Devens changed hands yesterday morning as Lt.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Lowell Sun

Keady a finalist for Pepperell job

Shirley Town Adminstrator Kyle Keady is among three finalists for the same position in Pepperell.

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Lowell Sun

Pepperell woman: Man forced me into prostitution

A 46-year-old Cambridge man, the son of a former state representative, was arrested at gunpoint outside a Somerville hotel accused of forcing a Pepperell woman into prostitution.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Boston Globe

Pepperell rallies to save July Fourth celebration

The doorbell plays "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at Jannine Kraus's home, where her dining room table nearly disappeared last week under parade signs, a rainbow of crayons, quivers of felt markers, and a sticky bottle of white construction glue.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Lowell Sun

From Pepperell to Bunker Hill, a star-spangled hero

Old-timers move on, newcomers move in. The relentless shuffle over time leaves the president of the town's historical society wondering whether local appreciation of Pepperell's most famous patriot will endure.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Parish merger approved

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, has approved a plan presented by Sacred Heart-St. James Parish of Groton and St.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Boston Globe

Religion: Parishes in Pepperell, Groton to merge

And then there were 291. The Archdiocese of Boston, which had 357 parishes back in 2002, is consolidating another pair of parishes tomorrow.

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Sentinel & Enterprise

Former Townsend teacher gets full salary

Former teacher Emily Metcalfe said she will receive her salary and benefits through the summer, and was never technically fired from her long-term substitute teaching job at Spaulding Memorial School in Townsend.

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Lowell Sun

Pepperell OKs override, saves library, senior center, community center

Thirty-nine percent of the town's 7,973 registered voters -- more than 200 of which were absentee ballots -- turned out yesterday to pass a $646,797 override that guarantees the library, senior center and community center will remain open for at least another year.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Lowell Sun

Polls open till 8 for Pepperell override vote

Polls will be open Monday until 8 p.m., as voters in Pepperell head to the Varnum Brook Elementary School to vote on a proposed Proposition 2 1/2 override that would save the senior center, community center and library.

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Pepperell Free Press

Justin Zink -- 'jumps in with both feet and takes on anything and everything'

On 24-year-old dispatcher Justin Zink's first day as an auxiliary police officer, Conway Chevrolet/Buick burned.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Lowell Sun

Final bell tolls for Pepperell, Townsend elementary schools

Teachers at the Peter Fitzpatrick School in Pepperell wave goodbye to students yesterday as the buses pulled out of the lot for the last time.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Townsend Fire Chief Don Klein

Fire Chief Donald Klein was both humbled and curious as to why he has been named recipient of the 2009 Nashoba Publishing Extraordinary Service Award.

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Lowell Sun

Support the Pepperell override

Pepperell voters will head to the polls Monday to decide the fate of a $646,797 Proposition 2 1/2 override that, if approved, will be used to fund the library, senior center and community center.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Second Pepperell bridge to be replaced, this one in 2010

Supporting piers for the landmark covered bridge that spans the Nashua River are in place and the late October completion deadline hasn't changed, but the historically significant structure is not the only bridge about to be replaced.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Illegal vote

We were surprised to report on the secret ballot cast last week in Pepperell. The Boards of Selectmen and Health voted jointly on a new health board member to replace Scott Butcher.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Lowell Sun

Job sharing or divided loyalties?

Evidently, Maureen Marshall doesn't have enough to do as the full-time superintendent of schools of the North Middlesex Regional School District, so she also wants to run the Quabbin Regional School District at the same time.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Lowell Sun

Fired Townsend teacher: Kids given tape as 'fun reward'

All Emily Metcalfe wants is the chance to keep her career -- and dreams -- alive.

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Pepperell, Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County. Zip codes in Pepperell, MA include 01463. More Pepperell information.

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