Sterling News

Voters have a choice Monday between two candidates for selectman with criticisms of the board's performance in recent years.

By a three-to-one margin, voters at last night's town meeting rejected the Wachusett Regional School District's proposed fiscal 2014 budget.

When voters returned Tuesday for the second night of town meeting, they dispensed with several articles by tabling them, including shrinking the size of the Wachusett Regional School Committee and making changes in town government organization.

Four private gardens will be open to the public as part of Garden Conservancy Open Garden Day May 18.

Duke Energy Renewables' joint venture with Integrys Energy Services has completed constuction of two megawatts worth of solar projects in the town of Sterling, Mass.

A $21.4 million town budget won approval at the annual town meeting Monday night, but spending was the order of discussion on the first night of what looks like will be a two-night town meeting.

May 13 is election day in Berlin, Bolton and Lancaster, while voters in Sterling are being called to the annual town meeting.

The School Department's budget increase jumped another $300,000 Wednesday night, as selectmen unanimously voted to add a total of $500,000 to the school budget.

A Sterling woman was released on her own personal recognizance and is due back in court next month after being arraigned in Leominster District Court Thursday on charges she assaulted someone with a glass.

When townspeople gather for the annual Town Meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in the Chocksett Middle School gymnasium, 40 Boutelle Road, they will hear the Finance Committee beat a familiar drum.

People will have a chance to walk across the Wachusett Reservoir Dam in Clinton, take photos and ask rangers questions from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Mr. Turner leaves his father, Gary G. Turner and his wife, Anita Leporati of Sterling and his mother, Joyce A. and her husband, Gordon Marko of Webster; his brother, Randy P. Turner and his partner, Julie Bouvier of Hawaii; his sister, Wendy A. Turner of Franklin; his high school sweetheart, Debby Osipov; and many nieces and nephews.

Eric Fasshauer of Holden pulls a hose to begin dousing trees on fire in Princeton.

The YWCA of Central Massachusetts gave Katharine F. Erskine Awards Monday to five women whose professional accomplishments have made life better for their community, especially for women and girls.

Voters tonight rejected a proposal to decrease the size of the Wachusett Regional School Committee from 22 to eight members.

SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO / JOHN LOVE The start of the 19th Relay for Life at Mount Wachusett Community College last year in Gardner.

The proposal to convert the elected Public Works Board into an appointed subcommittee isn't motivated by personalities or politics, selectmen said this week.

Timothy J. Kelly, 65, of Mashpee, formerly of Bolton and Lancaster, died Monday, April 29, at Rose Monahan Hospice Home in Worcester after a brief illness.

A brush fire off Quinapoxet Street scorched three acres yesterday, but did not endanger any area homes, thanks to a variety of factors.

Joe A. Rodriquez, 38, of 7 Aetna St., Worcester, charged with two counts of shoplifting and assault and battery, continued to June 11.