Ware News

Worcester Grafton St. man facing indecent assault charge WORCESTER - A 40-year-old Grafton Street man has been arrested and charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years old.

LISA POOLE FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE O'Maley Middle School eighth-grade students: front row from left, Jill MacDonald, Taylor Sargent, Casey Noyes, Wyatt Ronan.

A Ware man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to keeping a stash of homemade explosives, ammunition and gun parts throughout his house and in his basement.

Ware animal lover Alfred Albrecht, 89, a veteran of World War II, and his wife of 62 years, Helen Albrecht, donate to the Telegram & Gazette Santa in memory of two of their beloved pets and in honor of their newest cat, BG, "a holy terror." "We used to sleep until 8 in the morning.

Photo by J. Anthony Roberts - Pioneer's Shane Deming, 33, drives the ball across midfield for a first down during the Division IV Super Bowl game, Saturday, versus Ware High School.

Police said a 26-year-old man was arrested for armed robbery and aggravated assault and battery by a dangerous weapon , after he and his brother allegedly robbed a man on North Street on Wednesday morning.

Tired of traffic backlogs getting off the Massachusetts Turnpike's Exit 8 into Palmer, At-large Councilor John B. DiNuovo discussed it at a recent Town Council meeting, and Town Manager Matthew S. Streeter is looking into ways to improve the traffic light there.

First the good news: from pennies to big checks, residents across the Valley pitched in some $70,000 for the Sydney F. Smith Toy Fund in 2008.

A Ware man was charged today in federal court with Possession of Ammunition by a Convicted Felon and Manufacturing Explosive Materials without a License.

Baystate Mary Lane Hospital has been given the go-ahead to expand a building it owns on Chestnut Street that is operated as an adult day care center.

Original stone posts line the front of the mansion. Set on 150 acres on the Ware-Hardwick line, Hardwick Vineyard & Winery makes 3,000 gallons of wine every year in six varieties from its own vineyard.

Selectmen will hold a hearing on Dec. 1 on allegations by police that dancers at Robbie's Place bar exposed themselves and had contact with patrons.

Shrewsbury Police release video of robbery suspects SHREWSBURY - A surveillance camera captured three men, one of them with a gun, hurrying into CVS pharmacy moments before targeting the pharmacy area and grabbing an undetermined amount of narcotics.

A Ware man was charged today in federal court with Possession of Ammunition by a Convicted Felon and Manufacturing Explosive Materials without a License.

An employee at the American Disposables Inc., factory works on the assembly line in October in Ware, Mass.

Flights of woodcock descended among our aspens, alders and red maples this week.

* Angel L. Martinez, 31, of Ludlow, was arrested Monday at 3:13 p.m. on South Pleasant Street on four outstanding warrants from Springfield District Court, police said.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.5 percent annual pace from July to September, according to Commerce Department figures released Thursday, in a signal that the worst recession since the 1930s may be easing.

The Belchertown Land Trust plans to seek an extension to its Nov. 30 deadline for devising a plan to either repair the Upper Bondsville Dam or take it down.

Though it does business in an out-of-the-way corner of Hampshire County, Snow's Restaurant is, especially for those who love seafood, an eatery that merits seeking out.