Templeton News

The deadline for residents of Princeton, Hubbardston and Templeton to sign up for refuse and recycling collection through a new pay-as-you-throw program has been extended a month.

Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a home at 9 Columbus Ave. just after 10 last night.

Andy J. King is carrying on one of mankind's deepest atavistic streaks, an instinct as old as fire itself, and is sharing what he has learned over the years cooking meat with fire to help improve barbecues everywhere.

Pursuant to gubernatorial protocol which states, "The U.S. flag shall be flown at half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on the day of interment of any soldier from Massachusetts who is killed in action in a war zone while on active duty,a Please be advised that Governor Patrick has ordered that the United States flag be ...

There were no complaints, no photographs taken and no confrontation, but residents say two people were hiking naked on Baldwinville Road Sunday.

Governor Deval Patrick, who was scheduled to headline the inaugural breakfast for the new Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury Crossing tomorrow morning, has had to cancel his appearance in order to attend the funeral of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.

A soldier who went to war at an age when some would have been retired, and was known by people locally as a quiet-spoken man who loved his country, died Wednesday from wounds suffered in Afghanistan.

Free bicycle helmets, games, face painting, music, and safety demonstrations were among the many offerings at the sixth annul Molly Bish Kid Expo in Gardner on Saturday.

The Templeton Municipal Light and Water Plant already is working on a windmill, supporting a methane-to-power project, and helping homeowners with solar projects.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,304 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 698 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A Massachusetts soldier has died from injuries he suffered when a military vehicle he was riding in ran over an improvised explosive in Afghanistan about three months ago.

With the retirement of City Clerk Kathleen M. Lesneski at the end of the month, the mayor and City Council are looking not only to replace her but to reorganize how the city does business.

TEMPLETON _ Police arrested two men and are seeking two others in connection with the Tuesday afternoon beating of a Gardner man, according to a statement released by Police Chief David H. Whitaker.

Two men are being held on $250,000 cash bail and two others are being sought in an attack on a Gardner man.

By Thanksgiving, the 77-meter-diameter carbon fiber rotor blades of the single 1.65 megawatt turbine atop an 80-meter tower behind Narragansett Regional Middle-High School should be turning to generate an estimated 3.4 million kilowatt hours a year.

The towns of Princeton, Hubbardston and Templeton recently selected a hauler for the HPT Regional Trash and Recycling Program after nearly two years designing a voluntary, environmentally sound and less expensive solution for residents.

By NANCY H. GONTER ngonter@repub.com MONSON - In a move similar to one made by the state House of Representatives less than a month ago, the Senate has passed an amendment that requires a feasibility study to be done before the closure of the Monson Developmental Center.

Worcester Four people stabbed during 'large fight' WORCESTER - Four people were stabbed during a 'large fight' about 7 last night at separate places on Columbia and Grafton streets, police said.

It has blown up a bathroom and caused mourners at funerals in nearby cemeteries to cough and choke, but methane at the Gardner Sanitary Landfill may soon go to a higher cause, keeping machinery running and lights on at a local business.

If anyone deserved a restful retirement, it was Dave Waskiewicz. For more than 40 years he toiled faithfully at Rodney Hunt Co., one of Orange's oldest manufacturers.