Shirley News

A 57-year-old Shirley woman is facing federal indictments for allegedly using her job in accounts payable to divert more than $150,000 to the account of a cleaning company which she controlled.

Award-winning songwriter April Hall will stop by the library on Aug. 28 to headline its second Evening of Jazz.

Long before the public became aware of former priest John Geoghan, clergy sex abuse had cast a shadow over the Roman Catholic Church with claims of molestation and rape, multimillion-dollar settlements and exhaustive publicity.

Local parents, teachers and teens say mainstream music's ongoing trend toward explicit lyrics has crossed a line -- but it doesn't stop them from listening.

Nathan Buckley knows the word "comrades" takes on new meaning when fighting in a war zone.

For those who knew Army 1st Sgt. Kevin A. Dupont, there is some solace knowing he died doing what he loved.

Shirley Selectmen Chairman Enrico Cappucci says it's time for the town to "take a hard look over the next year at how we do business." sun photos/Tory germann It's fairly dark in the halls of Shirley's Town Office Building.

The year-long planning process to renovate three empty buildings on the town commons has taken a major step toward becoming a reality, Town Planning Director Noreen Piazza said Tuesday.

Colleen Shapiro says she's fine being called a 'townie.' She grew up in Lunenburg and attended local schools, and moved back to town when she was about to have her first child.

Many of the town residents who came out last night to hear the latest about the possible formation of a regional school district with Ayer and Shirley sounded skeptical that local students would see a benefit from the arrangement.

According to planners, an event intended to mark the occasion of a special partnership between the town and the families of its veterans and those currently serving in the armed forces is on schedule and highly anticipated.

Regionalizing schools is being considered as a money-saving move by some cities and towns, and now the central Massachusetts communities of Lunenburg, Ayer and Shirley are seeing if they can make it work.

The following area students recently graduated from Becker College. Fitchburg: Julie Lantry graduated honors with a Associate of Science in veterinary technology degree; Chelsea Mahon graduated with a Associate of Science in veterinary technology degree; Shirley Araujo graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in business administration, ...

Everybody's heard the words reduce, recycle and reuse to help save the environment, but sometimes some of us need a little cash incentive to hop onboard the green machine.

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

At a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters Tuesday night, two planning consultants discussed and answered questions about the proposed rezoning of Vicksburg Square -- the lone warrant article slated for Super Town Meeting in Harvard, Ayer and Shirley next week.

Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.

The deserted house in one picture looks like it's on an island. Flooded woods in another, with trees rising from mirror-placid water, could be a Louisiana bayou.

LUNENBURG _ The Lunenburg School Regionalization Planning Committee has announced it will hold a public presentation of the work of the School Regionalization Planning Board on Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. in Lunenburg High School.

The following local students have received honors at Cushing Academy for the winter term.