WESTFORD — With dozens of school, district and state officials on hand, Nashoba Valley Technical High School officially broke ground on a 7,000-square-foot addition on Friday, April 12. The major expansion and modernization project for the regional vocational school is going forward thanks to three state grants totaling $6.75 million. Superintendent Denise Pigeon said the […]
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Philanthropist, volunteer Al Stone had ‘immeasurable’ impact
TOWNSEND — Albert Stone, who died at his home on Dec. 12, 2023 at the age of 95, was a “respected visionary and cherished leader,” according to his obituary. To the people whose lives he touched, Al Stone was all that and more. A low-key philanthropist. A man of few words and many interests. A […]
Editorial: Towns face tough decisions in wake of override vetoes
Are we about to relive some 1980s “nostalgia” that those of a certain age would sooner forget? For municipal and school department employees, those halcyon days were anything but. Proposition 2½, which Massachusetts enacted in 1982, limits the amount of revenue a community can raise from property taxes annually to 2.5% above the previous year’s […]
Groton-Dunstable override defeated
GROTON — Voters in Groton and Dunstable soundly rejected a proposed Proposition 2½ tax limit override, leaving their Select Boards and the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee facing a hard deadline of June 30 to have new fiscal 2025 budgets approved.
2 seek Worcester & Middlesex seat for Republican state committeewoman
On the Republican ballot for the March 5 presidential primary, there will be down-ballot races to pay attention to, including the race for the Republican state committeewoman for the Worcester & Middlesex District.