Worcester County News

The mills of Worcester and other towns along the Blackstone Valley corridor once served as major contributors to the local economy.

The Community Harvest Project is holding its ' Plantapalooza ' annual plant sale fundraiser this Saturday at 37 Wheeler Road in North Grafton.

It costs $350 more to get a CT Scan in our county in column 1 of the report card than Worcester County in coulumn 2 of the report card.

According to reports, between April 23rd and May 14th, there were several reports of thefts from residences in Berlin.

Norman H. Ringdahl, left, owner of Prints and the Potter Gallery, and Robert M. Nash, of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, look over some of the work by Cape Cod artists that Nash delivered to the Worcester gallery.

It costs $290 less to get a colonoscopy in Worcester County, than in Middlesex County.

WA orcester County will be well represented in Springfield this weekend when the Cool Hand Blues Band sets up shop at Theodores' in downtown Springfield.

Annual town election voters Monday rejected three ballot questions, including a capital exclusion for $38,000 to fund a new police cruiser, a capital exclusion question for $30,000 to fund turnout gear for the Fire Department, and $104,000 for a second ambulance.

After a changeable weekend highlighted by a spell of heavy rain up to 1-2" over southeastern MA and some nice sunshine in many areas for a few hours on Mother's Day, cooler air arrived last night.

In 1985 the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society established an Honor Society for high school chemistry teachers who teach or taught in the Section's region .

John Graham Jr. graduated from Assumption College Saturday with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice, and you have to wonder if for one second his thoughts flashed back to another spring, 19 years ago.

In a highly emotional sentencing hearing at which one man was ejected from the courtroom and the defendant refused to comply with the terms of her sentencing conditions, a Worcester District Court judge sentenced a follower of the Church of the End Times to one year supervised probation for assaulting an Uxbridge police officer.

The first Tribute Road Race was five-and-a-half miles long, rather than the five miles it is today.

Felix Chen, a 17-year-old clarinetist from Shrewsbury, won the top prize in Music Worcester's Young Artist Competition held at WPI's Alden Memorial Hall May 2. The competition is open to piano and orchestral instrumental students performing a piece from the classical repertoire, and $3,000 in prize money is given out annually.

Far surpassing their target goal of $12,000, employees from the Northborough Wegmans store presented a check for $26,201 to the Worcester County Food Bank April 29 after the store's successful "Check Out Hunger" campaign.

The city will benefit from $541,000 in federal grants administered by the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection announced this week.

Clinton is a small town, in Worcester County in the western portion of Massachusetts, which was incorporated in 1850.

The Fitchburg Law Library, an institution that has been in existence for more than 100 years, is about to become the latest victim in a struggling economy.

Letter carriers hope everyone will remember to leave a box or bag of non-perishable food outside their mailbox or at any post office Saturday.

Daniel J. Bennett, a prosecutor in the office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early, has been named a "Prosecutor of the Year" by the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association.