ASHBURNHAM — Sixth Avenue Groove, a band at Oakmont Regional High School, recently won the 2025 Beats for Good high school music competition and will open the Vermont-based Do Good Fest on July 12 featuring The Fray, Plain White T’s, Sammy Rae & The Friends and The Kwame Vibe. Members of Sixth Avenue Groove, who […]
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New Dawn Arts Center welcomes June with events
ASHBURNHAM — The New Dawn Arts Center has an exciting lineup of events in store for June. Founder and director Abigail Abbot, along with community volunteers, is launching two new community groups that nurture creativity and connection. “Our ‘Radical Softness Group’ is geared toward deep feelers, activists, artists, queer folks, young people, elders, parents, caregivers, […]
Oakmont high senior receives $40K scholarship
ASHBURNHAM — Oakmont Regional High School senior Jonathan Germain was recently named an Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient. According to a press release, the 17-year-old town resident will receive up to $40,000 over four years to pursue a degree in computer science at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Germain is one of only seven Massachusetts students to […]
‘Honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice’
In the Twin Cities and surrounding region, Memorial Day was marked with parades, songs, and solemnity. Observances of the federal holiday took place in Fitchburg, Leominster, Westminster, and other cities and towns in the North Central Mass region, with many veterans, local and state officials, girl and boy scouts, and community members attending the various […]
‘This city has a rising arts community’
FITCHBURG — It’s easy to tell how much Katelyn Murphy adores her four-year-old Quaker parrot Ham, the inspiration behind the name of the bespoke boutique she opened in the city last fall and the official mascot of it. “He stops by the store sometimes and greets the customer by raising his foot up to them,” […]
Ashburnham family shares autism journey
ASHBURNHAM – At the same time they were beginning an early intervention journey for their son Greysen, Jess and Andrew Doughty began noticing red flags with the development of their son Luke. “He was very different even from Greysen,” Jess said of their middle son, who was a baby at the time. “He did not […]
