Rutland News

Barry Blomgren called his sister Melanie Lombardi Monday night and told her she would not believe what happened to him.

Before heading out into the soft rain to mark with a ribbon cutting the installation of his farm's 15-watt Proven Wind turbine, Al Rose said he started planning for this when he took over his family's apple farm in 2001.

A memorial service was held last night for Doug Ingalls, an English teacher at Wachusett Regional High School.

The Burnside Court series at the Hanover Theatre brings together both the audience and performers directly on the stage with an intimate, lounge act feel, and this year's series kicks off with EJ Ouellette & his band Crazy Maggy on Thursday, June 25 .

Century riders will tackle about 6,000 feet of climbing at the annual King's Tour of the Quabbin next Sunday.

Helen F. Viner, curator of the Rutland Historical Society, looks into a solitary confinement cell.

Cape Cod Child Development has received a $20,000 grant from the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust.

"Iron Brides" sounds like a television show about female body builders tying the knot.

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Driving through The Highlands, a suburban housing development in Rutland, is like tracing the history of homebuyer demand.

Ten Wachusett Regional High School seniors received their sentences this afternoon in Leominster District Court on vandalism charges in connection with an April Fools' Day spray-painting incident.

Ashburnham Vitone wins election to succeed Gagnon ASHBURNHAM - Despite the near 90-degree weather yesterday, 682 voters turned out for a two-way race between a businessman and stay-at-home mother vying for the selectmen's seat.

With two overrides and a debt exclusion question on the annual town election ballot May 11, the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee met to discuss how the town would handle the budget if the questions fail.

Central Massachusetts will host four mountain bike races this summer. Two races of the races are part of the Root 66 Northeast XC Race Series - the Domnarski Farm Race in Ware July 5 and the 14th annual Hodges Village Dam race in Oxford Aug.

The medical van owned by Veterans Hospice Homestead of Fitchburg has the following schedule this week: *Tuesday: Clinton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 523 , 10 Allen St., Clinton, 10 to 11:30 a.m.; Massachusetts Shelter for Homeless Veterans , 69 Grove St., Worcester, noon to 3 p.m. {smallbox}Wednesday: Quinsigamond Village Community Center , 16 ...

Ten Wachusett Regional High School seniors were arraigned on vandalism charges yesterday in connection with an April Fools' Day spray-painting prank.

A 32-year-old Oakham man who was allegedly tailgating a Jeep Cherokee, then wielded a 16-inch plumber's wrench and shouted at the Jeep's driver, picked the wrong guy to hassle: Police Chief Donald A. Haapakoski.

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A jury this week found Rutland's so-called Wolfman not guilty on six of seven charges related to allegations of trespassing, public drinking and breaking in to a vehicle.

It will be months before local students have shoveled the snow days out of their schedule, but the summer camp industry is already preparing - and hoping - for children's arrival.