Spencer News

Officials are amazed despite this scene that no one was injured. When police arrived at Winter and Chestnut Streets shortly before 5:30 p.m. they found a box truck sandwiched between a minivan and a pickup ...

The XTRA Mart on Route 9 was robbed at gunpoint early this morning. A man entered the store about 12:45 a.m., pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded cash, according to Officer Michael Shea, a detective.

Lightning during a fast-moving thunderstorm sparked a three-alarm fire on Grogan Road in Barre shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday.

A school committee member credits serendipity and her level of investment in the community as being key factors in her being named the new principal at Tantasqua Regional Junior High School.

Come celebrate the enduring African tradition of the extended family, where the village "is" the family.

SENIOR RUTH PAUL N. JOHNSON Schwartz 10, Grafton 1 Center fielder Dakota Krauss tripled and scored twice to spark Schwartz over visiting Grafton.

A member of the Tantasqua Regional School Committee is one of two finalists for the job of principal at Tantasqua Regional Junior High School, Superintendent David G. Durgin announced yesterday.

Fire outside closed theater is probed FITCHBURG -- Firefighters extinguished an exterior fire just feet away from the closed Fitchburg theater at 715 Main St.

Winds gusting to 68 miles an hour caused about 14,000 National Grid customers in Central Massachusetts to lose power overnight, and 12,000 remain without it, weather and utility company officials said today.

Michael N. Dubrule, who is about to step down after 10 years as superintendent of Leicester's public schools, says that what he is proudest of is that everything he has done here, and in all of his 35-year ...

Stephen J. Comtois is prone to making odd pronouncements that he later can't recall.

Fire gutted a home on Molasses Hill Road yesterday, leaving a family homeless and two pets dead.

Due to a couple of special events happening this Sunday, we're changing our WMW format just a little for this week.

By Bradford L. Miner Telegram & Gazette staff bminer@telegram.com SPENCER- At 8:22 a.m. today, a pincer bucket attached to the long arm of a Caterpillar tractor took a bite from what had been the sacristy of ...

The School Committee signed a contract with the new Oxford High School principal and reorganized last night, for the second time in a little over one week, after learning that its May 21 reorganization was ...

At Iron Shoe Farms in Uxbridge yesterday, Glenn Rhone of Uxbridge, right, demonstrates for volunteer handler Susie Caplette of Spencer, center, how to make a rope halter.

Officers also believe that the inmate's letters may be related to another crime.

By Bradford L. Miner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF bminer@telegram.com SPENCER- A Sutton company has stepped forward to make sure that when Camp Marshall opens next month, all will be ready for young riders at 4-H ...

Blaze displaces Brookfield couple BROOKFIELD --A Rice Corner Road couple were displaced when fire heavily damaged their home early Friday evening.

Attack linked to cocaine money SPENCER -- A 41-year-old Cherry Street man was arraigned Friday after he allegedly assaulted a woman who took $50 from him, refused to use the money to buy him crack cocaine and ...