Spencer News

Teachers and school administrators warn of dire consequences if residents here and in Spencer continue to turn down an override to fund a roughly $26 million fiscal 2014 regional school budget.

State Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, and Rep. Peter J. Durant, R-Spencer, have asked the state Ethics Commission to look into Quaboag Regional School District's "questionable recruitment of select students from one public school district to another using taxpayer funds." Town Manager Christopher Clark told town councilors Monday that Quaboag ... (more)

Manuel E. Fernandez, 21, of 15-1/2 Mendon St., Worcester, charged with assault and battery, sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction, with 4 months to be served, balance suspended until Aug.

The solar facility planned for Harrington Street is expanding into a segment of the same property situated in neighboring Spencer.

The Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the fiscal 2014 budget.

Main Street in Spencer in 1979. The cupola on the left sits atop Denny Hall, part of the town's first high school.

Voters Thursday night agreed to fund the Spencer-East Brookfield School District at the state's mandated minimum contribution level but sent the school committee back to the drawing board after voting down an additional $2.26 million which would have hinged on a tax override.

The discovery of some burned clothing where a brush fire charred several acres yesterday has fire officials searching an area off South Spencer Road.

A suspicious fire in a storage trailer behind the Whitco Sales store on Main Street Sunday night damaged two postal vehicles, Fire Chief Robert P. Parsons said.

Friday, April 26 5:34 p.m.: A two-car crash was reported on Purchase Street, at Haven Street.

Fire damaged an outbuilding on City Depot Road early Saturday morning. According to fire officials, when firefighters arrived at 140 City Depot Road around 3:15 a.m., they found a 30 foot by 30 foot outbuilding fully engulfed.

Two overrides that could increase the tax rate by $2.61 per $1,000 of valuation top the warrant for the annual town meeting.

A 74-year-old woman who was reported missing Sunday afternoon was found dead in a pond near 30 R. Jones Road today, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.