Shirley News

High school seniors Meghan McCaffrey and Nick Flanagan said regionalization discussions between school officials from North Middlesex and Lunenburg school districts are a good idea if they could help the towns build a new high school.

School teachers and administrators were on hand to greet parents who took advantage of an open house at the proposed new home for the Harvard public school's Integrated Pre-K program.

It's a task so unwieldy that the Joint Boards of Selectmen for Ayer, Harvard and Shirley decided to outsource the job to the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission .

The Special Town Meeting warrant includes seven articles, and the most important may be Article 2, which contains separate line-item requests worth $52,000 needed to chase delinquent taxpayers, Selectman Enrico "Rico" Cappucci said yesterday.

The Friends of the Hazen Memorial Library in Shirley hosted a free Haunted Halloween Magic Show with magician Tommy James at the library on the evening of Oct.

The Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 11th annual Community Service & Leadership Awards event Wednesday, Nov.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, the last of the fall tours organized by the Shirley Historical Society took place on the grounds of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution.

As parents, we often wonder what we can do to motivate our children to do their best, reach their goals and to rally themselves when things go wrong.

Souvenirs of Summer Vacations -- is the theme for the current display at the Shirley Historical Society Museum.

"We have a roomful of Patriots here who want to help our soldiers and their families," said Tony Saboliauskas, a member of VFW Post 3291.

Recently your paper printed an article concerning the decision by the Ayer/Lunenburg/Shirley Regionalization Planning Board to not bring a three-town school regionalization proposal to the three towns.

Communities throughout the region are learning the new state ethics law is a logistical quagmire, officials said this week.

Pepperell could soon join Ayer, Harvard, Lancaster, Shirley and Groton, in signing the Army Community Covenant.

The fiscal 2010 second quarter real estate and personal property preliminary tax bills are due in the collector's office by Monday, Nov.

Presented by the Merrimack Vallety Chamber of Commerce. Takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Andover Country Club, 60 Canterbury St., Andover.

The wind was recently knocked out of a tri-town regionalization effort among the Ayer, Shirley and Lunenburg school districts due to both Lunenburg opposition to the plan and the evaporation of previously pledged funding from the State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

A 72-year-old Pepperell woman, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, was arraigned on her second drunken-driving charge for an accident in July in which she allegedly plowed into four parked cars and then was trapped in her overturned vehicle.

New exhibit: Souvenirs of Summer Vacations is the theme for the current display at the Shirley Historical Society Museum.

In the midst of a national economic downturn, one local company saw the need to expand its facility and to add services and employees.

The pothole-riddled section of Groton Road from about Lawton to Garrison streets is about to get a long-needed makeover, according to Town Administrator Kyle Keady, who has been working with DPW directors from Ayer and Harvard to bring in low bids on a three-town roster of road projects compiled by Ayer's director.