Area food bank and nonprofit organization staff members are speaking out about federal budget cuts and how they will affect how they are able to serve those in the community in need. Ginny’s Helping Hand and Food Pantry Executive Director Brandon Robbins said on Tuesday that he recently received an email from the Worcester County […]
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Ayer voters to consider $13M Senior Center construction project
AYER — A big, beautiful, brand new senior center could be in the town’s near future, if voters support it. According to a project proposal headed for Fall Town Meeting, the plans call for construction of a 14,000-square-foot, farmhouse-style building with state-of-the art, senior-friendly features and fixtures, slated for a three-acre site on Bishop Road. […]
Local foundation’s generous gift to Ayer Library will keep on giving
AYER — The quality services one local woman received at the Ayer Library growing up recently inspired one local foundation to ensure that those services are always provided. The James and Christine Laggis Wood Foundation has established a $100,000 endowment for the Ayer Library, detailed in a recent announcement from Library Director Luke Kirkland. With […]
Community Foundation awards $139K to regional health projects
FITCHBURG — With the Nashoba Valley Medical Center now closed, the Ayer Fire Department was recently forced to add a third mechanical chest compression system to a fire engine to compensate for the lack of a nearby emergency room. The addition was just one of 14 community health projects that were recently awarded funding through […]
‘We are determined to find a cure’
WORCESTER — The ice was colored a rosy hue at the 13th annual Pink in the Rink hockey game on Feb. 10, a breast cancer focused fundraiser near and dear to co-founder Kathy DiRusso’s heart. The longtime Leominster resident first partnered with the Worcester Sharks in 2012 as the captain of The Cup Crusaders, one […]
UMass Memorial Health proposes to build emergency department in Nashoba Valley
UMass Memorial Health announced a plan Wednesday to build a new standalone emergency department in the Nashoba Valley Region to partially fill the void left by the closure of Ayer’s Nashoba Valley Medical Center last year.
