Westminster News

From left, Lunenburg Track and Athletic Field Association members Steven Kyajohnian, Tom Leppala, and Sandy Laserte show the Lourens family - Erik, Nancy, Kyle and Ron - ongoing projects at the track and field ...

The Fire Department has received a $570,000 Homeland Security grant to upgrade its outdated radio systems, improving safety for firefighters and those requiring emergency services.

If you're a Westminster resident, you can now pay your property taxes online, town Treasurer/Collector Melody Gallant announced.

Sir John Templeton was many things to many people. To the general public, he was one of the past century's greatest investors and philanthropists - " a man who revolutionized both mutual fund investing and the ...

Selectmen and Advisory Board members set a new policy for this fiscal year and next: No spending articles will be allowed at the fall special town meeting, with very few exceptions.

An unattended candle has been identified as the cause of a fire that damaged a Harrington Road home Tuesday.

A three-alarm fire gutted a two-story home on Harrington Road on Tuesday evening, doing extensive damage to the first and second floors, according to Westminster Fire Capt.

The Forbush Memorial Library is undergoing renovations which should be completed before Christmas.

Now that his one-year term as interim superintendent of schools is over, William E. Allen is riding off into the sunrise.

Once again, the Westminster Historical Society is offering Shaker-style basket workshops.

In Ashby, Ashuburnham, Townsend and Westminster, residential and business telephone service was knocked out earlier today by a vehicle that struck part of a Verizon substation on Route 2A in Westminster.

The town of Westminster has adopted a new quarterly tax payment system, which will affect your property tax bills for Fiscal Year 2009 .

Westminster's 250th Anniversary Committee launched a new Web site on Monday, Lorraine Emerson, chairman of the committee, said Monday.

Oakmont Regional High School is nearing its 50th anniversary, and Principal David Uminski is calling on the school community to help celebrate.

To hear Ralph White, president of the Retired State, County and Municipal Employees Association of Massachusetts, tell it, a proposed hike to the cost-of-living-adjustment base for state, school and municipal ...

While the planning process to reconstruct 10 miles of Route 140 from Sterling to Westminster is just getting started, the state has included $14 million for the project in its bond appropriation bill.

Bud Taylor remembers the Cape Cod summers of his youth, and the rule his mother used to set.

A coworker said Dr. Friedman made comments or gestures of a sexual nature. The Board of Registration in Medicine reprimanded Dr.

Police pursue assault suspect FITCHBURG -- Police are looking for the public's help in finding a man who assaulted a 65-year-old woman Monday afternoon at St.

On Tuesday, voters will have several money requests to consider from the schools, Department of Public Works and the Council on Aging.