Ware News

The water from the Quabbin Reservoir provided to 2.5 million residents is safe, officials from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority said Wednesday, one day after seven people with ties to the Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore were caught trespassing shortly after midnight on the watershed property.

Area ambulance services are taking a hard, collective look at finding a better way to handle emergency responses in a half-dozen local towns.

Changing to a regional emergency dispatcher service - involving the towns of Ware, Monson, Warren and Palmer - is not imminent, but officials from the four communities are meeting and have agreed to hire a consultant to study the idea, according to Ware Town Manager Stuart Beckley.

More than 200 people from all over the commonwealth and beyond came to Ware Town Hall on April 27 for a "Remembrance Ball" to dance, listen, munch, reminisce and raise a champagne toast to the four "lost towns" of the Swift River Valley.

SUTTON *The First Congregational Church, 307 Boston Road, will hold a chicken barbecue from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. May 11.

The interior of the brick town hall, decked out with patriotic bunting and black trimmings, was swarming with celebrants and mourners, many finely dressed for what was to be the final evening of the town hall and for the town itself.

WARE - D & D Fitness Factory, a coed training facility in Ware, will sponsor two special events Sunday, April 28: The Lift for Life and 5K Road Race.