Shirley News

With a record-breaking number of registered 5K race participants, the ninth annual Janis Bresnahan Run for Education had another successful, fun year.

AYER/SHIRLEY -- The world we live in today is different than the world many of us grew up in.

Police Chief Edward Denmark updated the selectmen Tuesday night on the process and progress of responding to a MassDevelopment request for proposals on its next Devens policing contract.

A pair of local high school students have had a poem and a nonfiction article accepted for publication in "The Marble Collection: Massachusetts High School Magazine of the Arts," a prestigious periodical showcasing the best literary efforts of the state's young people.

Firefighters doused a two-alarm blaze that started in the kitchen at 56 Harvard Road Tuesday about 9:30 p.m., said Fire Chief Dennis Levesque.

The Ayer Shirley Regional School Committee made an important funding decision with respect to the high-school building project Wednesday night.

Selectmen Tuesday night addressed issues such as adding a dog park to town and where to house a medical-marijuana dispensary.

The 2013 Annual Town Meeting was the town's 260th, according to Moderator George Knittel, who dated its inception to the establishment of the town in 1753.

Air horns, confetti and bouncing beach balls marked the jubilant conclusion of Fitchburg State University's 117th commencement ceremony after 425 of about 600 graduates walked across the dais in the school quad Saturday.

An 18-year-old woman was injured when the car she was driving rolled onto its side along Bank's Corner on Center Street Wednesday afternoon.

Former selectman and Joint Boards of Selectmen Shirley representative Enrico Cappucci spoke at the Shirley selectmen's meeting Monday night to make clear his reason for resigning from the JBOS.

Selectman Kendra Dumont brought up the Ayer-Shirley Regional School District and funding issues its two member towns face during a recent visit with selectmen by state Sen.

Lunenburg police, with assistance from detectives in Westminster and Ashburnham, arrested Patrick E. Crane, 29, of Island Road, Lunenburg, on Thursday and charged him with two counts of receiving stolen property.

This May 3rd, I had the honor and pleasure of attending the Annual Legislative Breakfast hosted by the Department of Developmental Service's Central Region Citizen's Advisory Board.

Convicted murderer Robert Breest, imprisoned for more than 40 years in the murder of an 18-year-old Manchester woman whose partially nude body was found on a frozen Merrimack River in the Capital City, will remain jailed at least until he submits to a sexual offender evaluation.

In 2010, Laurel Mabon gave birth to daughter Gracie Mae aboard an Ayer ambulance while being rushed to the hospital.

Firefighters doused a two-alarm blaze that started in the kitchen at 56 Harvard Rd.

Selectmen signed an amended version of the May 20 Annual Town Meeting warrant Monday night, moving in unison with the Finance Committee through its 21 articles, with favorable recommendations on most.

Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry is proud to announce that Shirley-based Bemis Associates Inc., the leading manufacturer of heat-seal films for the apparel and footwear industries, has provided 11,000 hours of volunteer time to Loaves & Fishes over the past 10 years since the two organizations started working together.

Annual roadside cleanups in Ayer and Shirley rounded up the usual suspects on Saturday: a few car mufflers, a plastic flower pot and a birdhouse made out of a paint can.