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Yesterday | Telegram & Gazette

Outdoors: Hunt is on for a timberdoodlesa

Friday, November 6, 2009 Outdoors: Hunt is on for 'timberdoodles' Mark Blazis Outdoors Flights of woodcock descended among our aspens, alders and red maples this week.

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Related Topix: Bolton, MA, Ware, MA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Woman to be arraigned in theft from Boy Scouts

A Millbury woman accused of stealing about $225,000 from the Mohegan Council of the Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Worcester Superior Court.

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Related Topix: Millbury, MA, Worcester, MA

Daily Times

Worcester: Commercial zoning requests denied

The Worcester County Commissioners have decided not to add any commercial zoning to Route 589 as part of its comprehensive rezoning, leaving zoning for growth on the road to be determined at a later date.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Mom accused of beating child

A local woman is accused of beating her 9-year-old child with a belt and then abandoning her at the state Department of Children and Families office in Leominster, according to court documents.

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Related Topix: Fitchburg Metro, Leominster, MA

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Sex offenders were monitored

Emilio Cruz and Timothy Dupree were on the prowl Halloween night as part of a nationwide effort to keep trick-or-treaters safe from sexual predators.

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Related Topix: Worcester, MA, Life, Holidays, Halloween

Wick-Qua-Boag Weekender

Charlton man faces attempted murder charge

A Charlton man faces charges of attempted murder and assault and battery after allegedly attacking his girlfriend.

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Related Topix: Charlton, MA, Dudley, MA

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Networking group sets job-search workshops

A series of workshops is planned to help people cope with the economy. Gesher, a business networking group within Congregation B'nai Shalom, has joined with Connections of Central Massachusetts and Jewish Family Service of Worcester to host non-denominational sessions for job seekers.

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Related Topix: Worcester, MA, Shrewsbury, MA

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Plan to limit access, reduce clients at shelter

PHASING OUT THE PIP The exterior of the PIP Shelter at the corner of Main and Charlton streets in Worcester is seen in this file photo taken in June.

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Related Topix: Worcester, MA

Fri Oct 30, 2009

WBOC-TV Salisbury

Low Turnout for H1N1 Vaccinations in Worcester Schools

SNOW HILL , Md.- The Worcester County Health Department says few school children have turned in permission forms allowing them to be vaccinated against H1N1.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Police seize drugs and cash

Officers in the North Worcester County Drug Task Force seized 25 grams of cocaine and thousands of dollars in cash from a Mechanic Street apartment Thursday, according to police reports.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Leominster, MA

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Missus tells husband to go out, hunt

Marlboro's Elaine Stefanik is the kind of wife deer hunters dream of having. Saturday morning, while it was still dark and raining, her husband Mike looked at conditions and decided to go back to bed.

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Related Topix: Sutton, MA, Dudley, MA, Worcester, MA, Paxton, MA

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Winchendon Courier

Not all lining up for cemetery plots

Editor's Note: The Southbridge Evening News last week published a story noting the steps taken to ensure enough space at local cemeteries.

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Related Topix: Southbridge, MA, Spencer, MA, Paxton, MA, Sturbridge, MA, North Brookfield, MA

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Beetle chemicals versus bees

Members of the Worcester County Beekeepers Association had an exclusive audience last night with federal officials running the city's Asian longhorned beetle eradication efforts.

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Related Topix: Apiculture, Science, Agriculture, Entomology, Leominster, MA, Fitchburg Metro

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Turnto10.com

Worcester County school closing because of H1N1

Grafton High School will close for two days next week and cancel all sports and extracurricular activities because of a suspected swine flu outbreak.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Education Etc.

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Missing Worcester teenager is found in West Boylston

A 14-year-old Worcester girl who didn't come home from school today prompted a massive search that ended when a family friend found her near Hartwell and Shrewsbury streets in West Boylston, Worcester police said.

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Related Topix: Worcester, MA, Boylston, MA, West Boylston, MA

The Daily Times

Winter sports games will start earlier in Worcester

NEWARK -- Parents might have to leave work a little early this winter to cheer on their high school athletes, as winter sports games in Worcester County will be starting before dark.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Ex-con to face new charges

A Leominster man is scheduled to be arraigned in Worcester Superior Court Friday on motor vehicle homicide charges in connection with an August 2004 wreck that left his best friend with injuries that ultimately killed him last April, District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.

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Related Topix: Fitchburg Metro, Leominster, MA, Worcester, MA

Tue Oct 20, 2009

The Recorder - Greenfield, Massachusetts

Usher Mill arsonist found guilty

An arsonist with a long criminal record who set fire to an abandoned paper factory in Erving in 2007 was convicted this week of setting the local fire as well as several others throughout the state, including the burning of the house in which the poem ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' was written.

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Related Topix: Fire, Erving, MA

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Lowell Sun

State trooper injured responding to Worcester crash released from hospital

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Edward Bruso has been released from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, where he was treated after his cruiser rolled over this morning on Route 290 westbound, near exit 22 in Worcester.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, Holden, MA

Sun Oct 18, 2009

WWLP

Winter Weather Advisory

THIS ADVISORY IS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS...MAINLY ABOVE 1000 FEET.

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Related Topix: Nantucket, MA, Weather

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