Communities around the region will receive a portion of the $1.4 billion in loans and grants recently finalized by the state to fund municipal water and wastewater projects, including efforts to address PFAS contamination as the federal government sets the first-ever limits for “forever chemicals” in drinking water.
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Truck hits behavioral health facility in Devens
DEVENS — Fire crews responded to a report of a truck crashing into a building at the TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in Devens and catching fire Wednesday morning. According to the Worcester County District Attorney’s office, the Devens Fire Department and assisting mutual aid departments extinguished the fire, which was first reported at 5:36 a.m. […]
Boston Marathon weather forecast looks a bit warm, sunny: ‘Proper hydration is key’
Boston Marathon weather forecast looks a bit warm, sunny: ‘Proper hydration is key’
New play exposes ‘insanity’ of gun violence
FITCHBURG — City on a Hill Arts is presenting “The Secretary,” a new dark comedy about gun violence, this weekend in Fitchburg, hoping to make people both “laugh and cry.” With performances the first weekend in April, there are two more free shows coming up on Friday and Saturday, April 12-13. This is the New […]
Rollover accident sends car into the woods
Fitchburg Police report icy conditions from the recent late winter storm were most likely to blame for the vehicle that flipped over the guardrail on Ashby State Road in Fitchburg on Monday morning. No injuries were reported with the sole occupant, who got himself out of the wreck, following the accident shortly before 7 a.m. […]
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 […]
