Princeton News

Princeton, MA June 17, 2013 A contract has been signed between the town of Princeton and G4S Technology LLC to design a fiber optic broadband network connecting town offices, schools and residences with high-speed Internet access.

Is Andover the new "Hollywood East?" Perhaps. Secrets Movie LLC is filming "The Minister's Wife" at Massachusetts School of Law Monday and Tuesday.

The Friends of Princeton Fire, in conjunction with the Fire, EMS and Police associations, will be hosting the first annual Princeton 911 Run starting at 10 a.m. June 22. The race will begin and end at the Thomas Prince School, 170 Sterling Road, Princeton.

The Wachusett Regional School Committee will vote on an $80.3 million budget at a special meeting June 26 that is expected to satisfy the majority of member towns.

The WISE grants for the 2013-14 school year were presented June 6 at Wachusett Regional High School.

A Princeton man awaiting trial in Worcester Superior Court on a murder charge stemming from a fatal stabbing at a party earlier this year on Sherbrook Avenue has been indicted on an unrelated charge of attacking a friend with a crowbar in 2011.

The first major objective in the joint Boylston Municipal Light Department and West Boylston Light Plant has been met.

With one month on the job, new Senior Center/Council on Aging Director Lisa Clark Viklund is bringing a "varied background, a good skill set and a passion for the job," Town Administrator Leon Gaumond Jr.

She was born May 12, 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age 2, after the passing of her father, she and her mother lived with her mother's parents, immigrants from Finland and Norway, in Austin on the west side of Chicago.

Just two days after returning to the Wachusett Regional School District Committee, Sterling's Lance Harris was elected the board's chairman on Wednesday night.