Shrewsbury News

More than 120 residents crammed a Town Hall meeting room last night to oppose the construction of a 21,000-square-foot medical waste treatment facility near a residential area on Cherry Street.

The city plans to pick up leaves Saturday in the areas bounded by: - Hamilton Street , Trahan Avenue, Grafton Street .

Daniel R. Kennedy of Daniels Sharpsmart will be available in the Selectmen's Meeting Room tomorrow from 3 to 5 p.m. to talk to anyone who wants to know more about the company's proposal to construct a 21,000-square-foot medical waste treatment facility at 263 Cherry St.

Tonight's aborted speech at a college campus by a convicted domestic terrorist wasn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that academic freedom clashed with the sensibilities of those who loathe what the speaker represents.

A convicted domestic terrorist whose scheduled speech at the University of Massachusetts was canceled has been reinvited to campus by a faculty group against the objections of school administration.

Shrewsbury resident and Army veteran Roscoe C. Blunt Jr. - better known as 'Rockie' - is not surprised by the continuing interest in World War II.

The battle to eradicate the Asian longhorned beetle will continue for months, if not years, but early efforts to contain the tree-killing insect are showing some success.

Three men with guns stormed into a CVS Tuesday and made off with an undetermined amount of narcotics from the pharmacy.

When federal education officials made stimulus money available to states earlier this year, the intent was to save jobs, supplement education funding and create new, innovative programs for local school districts.

The occupancy rate of office space in the city's Central Business District saw a drop of more than 6 percentage points over the last year, while rental rates slipped slightly, according to a report released today by The Research Bureau.

If you're contemplating buying a house, new windows, a heating system or a new car, now is as good a time as any, say area accountants and financial planners.

A series of workshops is planned to help people cope with the economy. Gesher, a business networking group within Congregation B'nai Shalom, has joined with Connections of Central Massachusetts and Jewish Family Service of Worcester to host non-denominational sessions for job seekers.

"The economic situation has hit people hard," said Karin Segal, clinical coordinator at a MetroWest Free Medical Program clinic in Sudbury, which is seeing 60 percent more patients than last year.

Remember Vertical Horizon , the band whose 1999 Everything You Want album went double platinum in the United States, mainly because of the chart-topping single that was its title track? Well, Vertical Horizon are back after a five-year hiatus, and have released a new album called Burning The Days .

The SAT scores in the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, school district have been reported.

Collection dates for yard waste The remaining curbside pickups for yard waste will be Nov.

When Joseph Dalton, a business technology teacher at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School, tells his students to come up with their own ideas and 'Go for it!' he never knows what they will come up with.

This may sound self-serving, but I have a suggestion for the correction officers at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction.

"Yep, the pig-roasters look gruesome. But they're the biggest sellers by far." In the market for manly cooking, the hog roaster is huge says Chef Bruce Frankel, referring to the SpitJack P150 Whole Hog Rotisserie nicknamed, "The Beast." Such is the language and equipment in the market for what Frankel calls, "manly cooking." And it's a market that ...

No community is stormproof, but Southboro has joined eight other communities in Massachusetts certified as StormReady.