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 […]
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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 […]
Massachusetts conservatives knock ‘irresponsible spending’ on state-funded shelters
Gov. Maura Healey has turned to 76 hotels and motels to bulk up the number of beds available under the state’s emergency shelter program. Dozens of contracts with social service organizations show nights at those sites can often run up to $300, a cost that includes food and supportive services.
Lion dance coming to library
LEOMINSTER — Families and children are in for a treat with all the upcoming library programs and can expect an especially fun event to kick them off. First up is a special performance by the Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion & Dragon Dance Troupe of Boston on Saturday, April 13 at 1 p.m. No registration […]
Fitchburg Library expansion set to begin this year
FITCHBURG.—The city will be moving forward this year on the Public Library expansion project after the construction timeline had been briefly delayed due to the discovery of a structural issue. An effort to create a renewed community resource and destination for the next several decades, the library project is one of many large-scale projects that […]
