Royalston News

Share + Jul 8, 2009 8:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Peg Rusconi "My Trevor is a darling 10-year-old boy who has complex medical special needs from being born premature," said Karen Zablonski, whose son has cerebral palsy and is legally blind and requires round the clock care.

Most of us have probably read Neuromancer , the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre.

Eyebrows were raised when Edward O. Wilson took an ant, crushed it and held it up to his nose.

'Sudiev.' Members of Central Massachusetts' close-knit Lithuanian community will gather, 'with God,' for the last time this weekend for a regularly scheduled Sunday Mass at St.

After an evening of talking with everyone from Canonical to Pasco to CTL, it's become very clear that there are a lot of people working very hard to make the Classmate PC far more than just another netbook.

Athol Gay, lesbian rights panel to feature local speakers ATHOL - A panel discussion on gay and lesbian rights, featuring local speakers and marking the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bruce's Browser, 1497 Main St.

Ware Threat in restroom keeps some students home WARE - A vague threat written on a bathroom wall at Ware High School prompted about 40 percent of students to stay home yesterday.

A Royalston man was lucky to find space to land his ultralight aircraft early today when the engine died while flying east over Route 2. Dennis Baker said he was taking a recreational flight around 6:30 a.m. when the aircraft's engine died.

By Scott J. Croteau TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF scroteau@telegram.com Bug ID sought in Douglas People living in Royalston and Charlton each thought they had an Asian longhorned beetle cruising through their yards today, but now believe they have a look-alike insect known as the white-spotted pine sawyer beetle.

Although there are an extraordinary number of good educational videos on YouTube, it appears the junk is on its way to overwhelming the good but ZDNet blogger Christopher Dawson has a solution.

Da Camera Singers, under the direction of Sheila Heffernon, will present "Monteverdi: A Retrospective," a program of sacred and secular music by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi on Saturday, May 30, 8 p.m. at St.

It had been a dozen years since I had seen the Danube and from the shore it did not seem to be quite as beautiful or as blue as I had expected from the familiar Strauss waltz.

It all began with a server migration last nightMost of you can probably fill in the blanks from there.

Royalston folk-rock singer/songwriter Linq advocates for diversity and peace on Life Goes On.

In a surprise announcement last week, Superintendent of Schools Alan Genovese informed members of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee that he plans to retire when his current contract expires.

The December ice storm that shut down portions of Franklin County for days snapped Peter Mallett's pine trees and destroyed his evolving hatchery, but not his ebullient spirit.

Despite overcast skies and chilly temperatures, hundreds of people turned out Saturday for the 46th running of the River Rat Race down the Millers River from Athol to Orange.

Arline E. Vining, 88, of Royalston, died Saturday at home. Plans are being made for a late spring celebration of her live.

The results of the contest for two positions on the Athol-Royalston Regional School Committee were still up in the air late last night as candidates in town waited for the results of the Royalston annual town election to be added to their totals, but voters did reject a Proposition 2-1/2 override that would have paid for emergency generators.

The 'Letter of the Week' from Royalston, 'Nothing succeeds like secession' , advocating the establishment of a new state, 'West Massachusetts,' begins with an error.