Westford News

Share + Nov 2, 2009 11:28 pm US/Eastern Reporting Joe Shortsleeve Arsenic and uranium are toxic chemicals that can cause serious illnesses like heart disease and cancer.

Let Lisa Gizara make you a Holiday Card featuring your pet! Lisa Gizara Trends in holiday gifts this year include personalized mementos.

Two years ago, Stephanie McElligott watched her daughter, Brynn, then 3, bounce around a local playground.

Sandy Pond Road resurfacing is well under way. We are looking to prepare the road for the binder course on Friday in an effort to have the roadway safer for travel over the Halloween weekend.

Hold onto your masks and keep the lights on, since it's the big weekend for ghosts and ghouls and getting scared out of your wits.

It's not over till it's over, but it does appear to be over for MassDevelopment Vice President Rich Montuori with regard to his candidacy to become Plymouth's next town manager.

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Thanks to a $500,000 grant, the town of Westford will no longer be the end of the line for the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.

Each morning at 6 a.m. I awake to the loud sound of the Fletcher Quarry starting the day operations.

Special Town Meeting last night voted not to create the town's first Department of Public Works -- the only article on the warrant not accepted.

For the past several months, there has been increased industrial activity in Westford.

Voters at Special Town Meeting tomorrow night will be asked to decide whether to create Westford's first Department of Public Works, which would centralize services now provided by several town departments.

Even after Janice Aalerud acquired the Edible Arrangements franchise on Littleton Road in Westford five years ago, she had her eyes on Lowell.

Selectmen last night gave a high priority to developing a policy to handle the financial and safety issues presented by more than 10 miles of roads in Westford that have not been accepted as public thoroughfares.

Health officials focused on fighting the H1N1 virus say their efforts are having an unintended effect.

Use variances as a means to work around the town's zoning bylaws came under scrutiny last night as the Planning Board wrapped up its discussion of the proposed Overlay District B. Resident Henry Christle raised the issue during a meeting that was also attended by selectmen and Town Manager Keith Bergman.

Photo by Jodie Andruskevich Bloodthirsty zombies await your arrival at the "Buried Alive" Haunt at SpookyWorld/Nightmare New England in Litchfield.

As public health officials caution workers with flu symptoms to steer clear of the office, a new report shows that as many as 1.4 million Bay State workers, including many who can't afford to give up a day's pay, don't have any paid sick days.

When Todd Richardson was 16 years old, he got the biggest scare of his life. It was 1992 and the high school junior was taking an exam in class when he began to feel sick.

What's the ideal beverage to serve volunteers while they're using old-fashioned, post-and-beam construction methods to build an historically fitting pinewood shed next to the Old Chelmsford Garrison House, built in 1691? Three hundred-year-old Gatorade, of course.