Stow News

An ongoing discussion on whether to hire Bolton-based RS Energy to recoup energy savings at the School Department was almost completed at Tuesday's School Committee meeting.

The Massachusetts Department of Envrionmental Protection has cited J. Melone & Sons Inc .

This week, the Massachusetts Legislature passed legislation as part of the FY09 deficiency budget that will allow the Nashoba Regional School District to use its reserve funds for operating expenses over the course of the next four fiscal years.

The annual commemoration of the April 19, 1775, Battle at Lexington Green - with its "Don't Tread on Me" slogans and tea dumping tax protest - seemed a particularly auspicious time for Celia S. Hyde to join Oath Keepers, a new group dedicated to upholding the U.S. Constitution.

Dear Third Middlesex Voter: I hope you will ake some time in the next week to respond to this questionnaire.

Voters at a Special Town Meeting Monday night adopted a balanced budget of $15,707,998. The crowd of about 50 people voted at Mary Rowlandson Elementary School in a hand count to pass the Fiscal Year 2010 budget with no objections.

If you were in Boston over the weekend, you may have thought someone got hijacked on the Charlestown Bridge, but it was actually just Ben Affleck causing all of the commotion.

Not every public agency meeting is a thrill, but yesterday, the Massachusetts School Building Authority made Scott S. Lazo of Southbridge one happy man.

NEW WINDSOR - The 'veteran' aircraft are coming to Stewart International Airport.

Nashoba Regional School District officials say changing the way the district buys health insurance for employees will lessen the increase district employees will face for health-care coverage.

It has no corporate sponsors, paid staff, or advertising. But the 500-mile Ride FAR bicycle trek for AIDS and HIV awareness has lasted two decades and raised more than $1 million.

"The rain was actually beneficial to us," said Gerard Beirne, owner of Berlin Orchards, where dozens of families are enjoying hayrides and apple picking this weekend.

The big return to school seems to have gone smoothly in area towns. Clinton, Nashoba Regional and Wachusett Regional all returned this week.

Under consistent rain and treacherous conditions, MX-338 lived up to its billing as one of the most difficult circuits on the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship schedule.

My first six months as Bolton's state representative have been quite challenging.

The town's Recreation Department is hosting the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce's summer celebration at NARA Park from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 28.

A recent discovery that a Princeton native might have had an impact on Henry David Thoreau's writing of his 'Walk to Wachusett' essay in 1843 will be explored tomorrow in a presentation by Robert M. Young, 64, of Leominster.

Rep. Kate Hogan announced that she will host a community forum with Rep. Marty Walz, House chairman of the Joint Committee on Education.

'If anybody ever told me I'd be part owner of General Motors, I wouldn't believe it.' - Bruce Springsteen Hello, everyone.

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