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TYNGSBORO -- Fees, and more fee increases, dominated the discussion during Tuesday night's School Committee meeting. With the start of school less than a week away, School Committee Vice Chairwoman Martina Witts reminded parents that the $200-per-child transportation fee for students in grades 7-12 is not optional, contrary to what some
Thursday, August 21, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- Refreshed by an $18 million infusion from Town Meeting this spring, the townwide sewer expansion is back on track. Officials with sewer consultant Camp Dresser & McKee told selectmen Tuesday night that this summer's intense spate of construction will ensure that the project is on schedule to be completed in 2010.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
PEPPERELL -- Selectmen and Finance Committee members agreed last night the word has to get out about the seriousness of a $1 million deficit left in the wake of a failed override referendum.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
By Gayle Simone MediaNews AYER -- The search for a new Department of Public Works superintendent has officially begun, with current Superintendent Michael Madigan leaving in two weeks. "He will work three days into September to clear up files and assist me with transition issues," Town Administrator Shaun Suhoski said at Tuesday's
Thursday, August 21, 2008
BOSTON -- State representative candidate Jennifer Benson said she would not support an increase in the state income tax despite making critical statements in reference to the 2000 rollback during a recent radio interview.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
LOWELL -- Lowell ranks ninth statewide in both teen pregnancy and dropout rate, statistics the School Department is working to curb by bringing a comprehensive sex-education program into the district's nine middle schools.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
BILLERICA -- A plan to build an affordable-housing complex for seniors behind St. Theresa Church is in its final stages, with construction expected to begin in the spring. All that's needed for the project's approval, said Interim Town Manager Rich Scanlon, is a green light from the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
SHIRLEY -- The race for the state representative seat being vacated by Jamie Eldridge is about to heat up as two candidate forums are scheduled over the next eight days, including one tonight in Shirley.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
BEDFORD COUNCIL ON AGING: Mudge Way, Bedford; Trip to Atlantic City, Sept. 2-4 (Reservations required; call 781-275-8588); Aerobics and Weight Strengthening, each Thurs., 11 a.m. CHELMSFORD SENIOR CITIZENS: 75 Groton Road.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
WESTFORD -- Nashoba Valley Technical High School will host a golf tournament to raise money for its athletics program. The nine-hole tournament will be held Saturday, Sept. 6, at Chelmsford Country Club with a shotgun start at 3:30 p.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
By Lisa Redmond lredmond@lowellsun.com. LOWELL -- A former Community Teamwork Inc. employee and the mastermind of a scheme to steal more than $100,000 from the housing-assistance program where she worked will serve a year in jail and repay a fraction of what she and her family stole.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
CAMBRIDGE -- Middlesex Register of Probate John Buonomo has been suspended without pay from his $110,000-per-year post after he was caught on tape stealing thousands of dollars from copy and cash machines in the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
By Don Eriksson Media News PEPPERELL -- Selectmen have signed off on Etchstone Properties' plan to build a 56-home affordable-housing development but the septic plan has yet to be approved by the Board of Health.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
LOWELL -- The lawyer for a 56-year-old Lowell man accused of motor-vehicle homicide said his client is so badly brain damaged from a crash that killed his passenger that he may not be competent to stand trial.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
WOBURN -- Court officials have cleared up one remaining charge against a man serving life in prison without parole for two murders in 2004. Michael Bizanowicz was in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday to agree that a separate charge of failure to register as a sex offender be filed without a change of plea, until his automatic appeal to the
Thursday, August 21, 2008
PEPPERELL -- George Moore, a Groton canoeing enthusiast, knows paddling through the Nashua River requires some heavy lifting. When paddling last summer in Pepperell Pond, a part of the river near the Groton border, Moore said, he often saw chunks of 3-foot water-chestnut stalks dangling from the tip of an oar.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
MBTA rescinds planned pay raises BOSTON (AP) -- The head of the cash-strapped MBTA has rescinded a 9 percent raise given to executives and non-union workers hours after state Transportation Secretary Bernard Cohen pressed him to reverse the pay hike.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
WESTFORD -- Town officials told Groton Road residents last night that they believe they have lined up financing for the extension of a water main along Groton Road to bring safe drinking water to homes affected by perchlorate.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
DRACUT -- License suspensions were handed down to three local businesses accused of selling beer to a minor on May 23. Selectmen last week imposed 15-day suspensions to Merrimack Liquors at 197 Merrimack Ave.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
TYNGSBORO -- Despite a steady stream of parents coming into his office this month to write checks for up to $1,500 for transportation, parking and athletic fees, new Superintendent of Schools Darrell Lockwood told School Committee members last night that their 2008-2009 budget has a built-in shortfall of at least $223,000.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- Police say Reinaldo Martino just wouldn't give up on trying to fool them. First, he gave vice detectives the slip twice in one week as they tried to watch him, according to Lt. James Hodgdon.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- It's been a while since the City Council has had to confront a performance-based raise for the city manager -- three years in fact. Last night, however, councilors dusted off the old appraisal evaluation form from 2005 that was last used for former City Manager John Cox and began discussions on how the city's top boss will be judged.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- With the Tsongas Arena bleeding $1 million to $1.5 million from the city each year, city councilors are putting even more pressure on SMG Management, the arena's management firm, to find creative ways to bridge the perpetual deficit gap.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- Seek an alternate route. In the coming weeks and months, two of the city's six major bridges will undergo repair, promising motorists long lines of traffic during peak hours. The University Avenue Bridge will shut down for 90 days, beginning on Aug.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- A 15-year-old Lowell girl who was walking to the park was flown to a Boston hospital with head injuries yesterday afternoon after she was struck by a minibike. The 15-year-old driver of the bike also was hospitalized, and will face a series of motor-vehicle charges.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- Two vacant positions at the Tewksbury Public Library will soon be filled, despite the town's precarious finances. Library Director Jennifer Hinderer had first approached selectmen about hiring a clerical assistant and children's specialist last month.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- A representative from Planned Parenthood will come before the School Committee tonight to discuss a possible collaboration to provide comprehensive sex education in the district's nine middle schools.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- The State Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint against state Rep. Kevin Murphy filed last month by the Massachusetts Republican Party. The complaint alleged that the Lowell Democrat had violated the law when he represented the School Department's four assistant superintendents, including his wife, in contract negotiations this
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
DRACUT -- On the first of the month, Al Lenzi could always count on it. A line of people snaking out the door of his former Bridge Street hot-dog joint, Ricky's Dog House. "A lot of them were street people who didn't really have any money to begin with," remembers Mike Lenzi, Al's son.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LOWELL -- Shirley Johnson was a 20-year-old treasurer at the Fifth Street Baptist Church in Lowell when a young, blind minister took over as pastor in 1963. "I was immediately attracted to her willingness to help out in any way she could," said the Rev.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
PELHAM -- You won't find it on YouTube, but Pelham's recreation director, Brian Johnson, outdid Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho this summer by scoring six soccer goals in one day. Though by scoring the goals, it's meant to say that Johnson found them -- in the woods, on town property.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
LOWELL -- Police say three men who robbed a Billerica roofing company on Friday morning took "thousands of dollars" its owner had planned to pay his employees with. The three men are being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Thursday after being accused of robbing Morgan Construction on Billerica Avenue shortly after 6 a.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
LOWELL -- The proposal by Retail Management and Development Inc., the real-estate arm of the DeMoulas Market Basket chain, to invest $15 million into revitalizing the Sunrise Shopping Center on Bridge Street was unanimously approved by the Planning Board last night.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
SALEM, N.H. -- If you head to the Mall at Rockingham Park to do some shopping tonight or tomorrow and notice a few more security guards and police officers, it won't be by accident. A bomb threat was found Friday in a changing room at the mall.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
DRACUT -- The responsibility for choosing a business administrator to replace Terry Wiggin will fall in the hands of Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin. The School Committee unanimously voted last night to relinquish control of advertising and interviewing prospective candidates for the job.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
WESTFORD -- The School Committee last night discussed its goals for the upcoming school year, focusing on the school budget. Chairman John Moran said that other town boards had requested the School Committee submit its budget request earlier in the fiscal year in order to facilitate the townwide budget process.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- It has been two years since residents went on the warpath against cell-phone towers, after a much-reviled wireless pole was constructed at the South Fire Station. Now, the town is slated to welcome yet another free-standing tower -- the first since the South Fire Station snafu.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- The yearlong legal fight over curtailed alcohol-serving hours at a local eatery is heading to the next judiciary level. The town has asked the state Appeals Court to review the case surrounding The Bury, a restaurant and sports bar that had received the backing of Middlesex Superior Court earlier this year.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
LOWELL -- Last October, as Kevin Willett, chief financial officer at Washington Savings Bank in Lowell, was being honored at the 14th annual "Evening with Local Heroes" dinner, he told the audience that he had already received the greatest possible reward for his volunteer work, and it wasn't public recognition.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
WILMINGTON -- Seventeen months have passed since Army Pfc. John F. Landry Jr. was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq. He has hardly been forgotten. Three months after the Lowell Veterans Monument Committee dedicated a city street corner to the 20-year-old soldier, Wilmington officials and residents are poised to unveil their
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Ayer Masons hosting events AYER -- The Caleb Butler Lodge is sponsoring a child identification program on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ayer High School in conjunction with the Ayer Police and Fire Department's Safety Awareness Day.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
DEVENS -- The histories of Devens and Truro, Nova Scotia, both evolved around the railroad, which now belongs to Pan Am Railways. They were both former military base communities that many brave soldiers called home.
Monday, August 18, 2008
WESTFORD -- Greg Donahue spent a day at last year's Middlesex County 4-H Fair calming his fidgeting dog and trying to keep cool in the summer heat. The 12-year-old has a long family history of participating in the 4-H Club and he wanted to ad to it by winning the Novice A Showmanship Dog Competition.
Monday, August 18, 2008
HUDSON, N.H. -- A 27-year-old Nashua man was being treated last night for injuries suffered when he lost control of his motorcycle on the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, skidded off the road and crashed. Louis Melanson was not wearing a helmet when his 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle crashed and struck a tree about 3:11 p.
Monday, August 18, 2008
SALEM, N.H. -- Batman beware. There is another winged crusader flying through the skies, but he can be seen floating in the skies above Pepperell, not Gotham City. And while Batman's winged outfit is black, Justin Shorb shines in his trademark red-and-white wingsuit for his high-flying, sky-diving adventures.
Monday, August 18, 2008
LOWELL -- A national program that provides owners of muscle dogs, such as pit bulls, a macho alternative to submitting their pets to dogfighting is coming to Lowell. The program called "Lug-Nuts," in which dogs pull weighted plastic children's sleds for cash prizes and edible treats, will be held at the North Common Park on Aug.
Monday, August 18, 2008
WILMINGTON -- Town officials will appear before the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission next month, after denying a liquor-license transfer that would have created Wilmington's first gas-station package store.
Monday, August 18, 2008
A state police Special Tactical Operations Team assisted Billerica police with a search on Friday morning for two men sought in connection with an armed robbery. A story in yesterday's edition incorrectly identified the SWAT team that assisted the search.
Monday, August 18, 2008
PELHAM -- A semifinal home football game against Litchfield's Campbell High School during his senior year -- a game Brian Stanton and coach Tim Powers remember vividly. During an off-tackle play, No.
Monday, August 18, 2008
LOWELL -- "Don't stop paddling! You will tip over!" yelled members of the Three Brothers team while watching their opponents struggle to keep their boat balanced. Moments later, 16 paddlers found themselves in the Merrimack River, bobbing in their orange life jackets.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Paving to shut down lanes TEWKSBURY -- Starting on Tuesday, Farwood and Evergreen roads will be narrowed down to just one lane due to paving operations. The one-lane shutdown will last from 7 a.m.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
BILLERICA -- An early-morning armed robbery at a Billerica roofing company Friday prompted police to call in a regional SWAT Team, a helicopter and police dogs, and it seems the firm response paid off.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Gov. Deval Patrick has announced $2.38 million in grants for Commonwealth Corps volunteers to work at 36 public and not-for-profit groups around the state, including the Revolving Museum in Lowell and UMass Lowell's Project IMPACT.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
BILLERICA -- As the skies opened and rain poured down on the Yankee Doodle parade last September, Joan Parcewski was sure spectators would run to their cars. She was wrong. Soaked but still smiling, hordes of residents braved the elements to celebrate their "Yankee Doodle Hometown.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
TYNGSBORO -- Would someone actually pay to work for a newspaper? Starting next month, students who wish to write for The Bridge, Tyngsboro High's school paper, could be asked to pay a "co-curricular fee" for the first time.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Meetings are held in Town Hall unless otherwise noted. Billerica MONDAY -- Planning Board, 7 p.m.; Composting Study Committee, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY -- Cemetery Commission, 10 a.m.; Board of Health, 7:30 p.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
By Hiroko Sato hsato@lowellsun.com AYER -- Listening to the sound of the big yellow flames shooting up just above her head, Gayle Keyes watched the open field grow smaller beneath her feet. The Boston skyline emerged over the horizon, and the world sparkled in the morning sun.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
* Angelika Iglesias, wife of Lowell police Officer Felix Iglesias, was convicted of embezzlement twice. Iglesias stole $164,000 from the Greater Lowell Pastoral Counseling Center on the same day in 2004 that she stole $1,400 from her new job with a local drywall company.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
BOSTON -- A 23-year-old Lowell man, arrested last year by Haverhill police responding to a report of shots fired, has been convicted on a firearms charge. Michael Galloway pleaded guilty last week in U.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
CHELMSFORD -- The Chelmsford Housing Authority has won a total package of $9 million in aid to build state-of-the-art affordable apartments for people age 55 and older. The funding comes at a time when housing officials are struggling to place some of the Merrimack Valley's neediest and frailest residents into affordable housing, said David
Saturday, August 16, 2008
LOWELL -- A 48-year-old Florida man, who was wanted for more than 20 years on a rape charge, is back in Massachusetts and has been ordered to stay here. Richard Peavey of Orlando was brought back to Massachusetts on July 24 and released by a District Court judge less than 24 hours later on personal recognizance.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
PELHAM -- Police said they went looking for stolen truck trailers yesterday and instead found more than $50,000 worth of other property. Police are releasing few details including the location of the seizures to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation, said Lt.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
LOWELL -- As state and Lowell police continue to probe the fatal shooting of a man who was killed in a Morse Street home Thursday night, officials have identified the victim as 23-year-old Phillip George Hayden.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- In a haze of sleep, Dr. Sothy Pheng heard three loud bangs on the front door of his Tewksbury home. "I could feel the vibrations transmitted through the entire house," he said, recalling the early morning incident Aug.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
DRACUT -- Scola's Restaurant has paid a hefty fine to the state after being cited earlier this summer for violating child-labor laws. Attorney General Martha Coakley's office said the Broadway Road Italian restaurant paid the $4,850 fine this past Monday after being cited in July for a number of infractions involving youth employed there.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Tsongas taking forum on the road LOWELL -- Congresswoman Niki Tsongas takes her Congress on Your Corner program on the road this Monday, chatting with bus commuters from Lowell to Haverhill. Tsongas plans to board the Route 41 bus at 4:55 p.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
LOWELL -- Their relationship began with chats over the Internet using America Online Instant Messenger. Arif Khalifa, a 31-year-old man living in his parent's Billerica basement, was chatting with a 15-year-old girl online, according to prosecutors.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Three killed in western Mass. car crash SANDISFIELD (AP) -- State police say three people are dead after a traffic accident in the small western Massachusetts town of Sandisfield. The accident involving four vehicles occurred about 1:10 p.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
LOWELL -- City Manager Bernie Lynch said the city has reached a settlement with the architect of the Stoklosa Middle School, ending a legal dispute over the costs incurred by the city to replace three classrooms mistakenly deleted from the blueprints.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
LOWELL -- One punch and Dennis Bilodeau was dead. Throwing that punch outside Captain John's Bar in Lowell during a fight two years ago was John "Jackie'' Morrell. In Lowell Superior Court, a tearful Morrell, 27, of Chelmsford, apologized to the Bilodeau family after pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Bilodeau's death.
Friday, August 15, 2008
NORTH ANDOVER -- Their landings at Lawrence Airport yesterday were much smoother than the last time John Katsaros and Joseph Lovoi each took off in a B-17 Flying Fortress. That would have been in 1944 from England and Italy, respectively, headed for Germany with two-ton bomb loads, Flak and Messerschmitts awaiting on the horizon.
Friday, August 15, 2008
BILLERICA -- On the top floor of the old Faulkner Mills building in North Billerica, athletes lunge at one another, wielding 35-inch blades. They are students at the Prise de Fer Fencing Club (a fencing term meaning "taking the blade"), which has been a training ground for fencing novices and experts for the past three years.
Friday, August 15, 2008
LOWELL -- The two men accused of an armed robbery on Wednesday continue to be held without bail. Amoro Meas, 39, of South Boston and Thai Pech, 25, of 333 First Street Blvd., Unit 112, were arraigned yesterday in Lowell District Court.
Friday, August 15, 2008
DUNSTABLE -- Undeveloped land behind the U.S. post office on Route 113 may soon become home to senior citizens looking for an affordable place to live. Common Ground Development Corp. of Lowell, a subsidiary of Community Teamwork Inc.
Friday, August 15, 2008
LOWELL -- Marcia Lemkin never smoked, rarely drank, always worked out and ate a healthy diet. None of her life habits would lead her family to suspect that on Oct. 18, 2001, she would die of lung cancer at the age of 59.
Friday, August 15, 2008
LITTLETON -- The price of school lunches is going up 25 cents in September. The School Committee unanimously voted last night to raise the price of lunch to $2.75 for students and $3.50 for adults. Food-Services Director John Overcash told the committee that his budget faces a $26,000 shortfall because of skyrocketing food prices.
Friday, August 15, 2008
TEWKSBURY -- One of the country's major bond-rating agencies has lowered Tewksbury's fiscal grade, but town officials doubt that it will affect any current or future borrowing. Moody's Investors Services announced recently that it is downgrading the town's bond rating from A1 to A2 to reflect the "substantially weakened financial position" that
Friday, August 15, 2008
By Don Eriksson MediaNews PEPPERELL -- With a cost estimate of $150,000 to repaint Town Hall, selectmen are seeking a second estimate prior to the October's Special Town Meeting. Little has been done so far with plans to renovate Town Hall, largely due to financial concerns, according to selectmen.
Friday, August 15, 2008
BILLERICA -- Selectmen voted to appoint law firm Louison, Costello, Condon & Pfaff as town counsel last night, ending a nine-year relationship with current town counsel Brackett & Lucas. The decision came amid selectmen's frustrations over the amount of time Brackett & Lucas has taken to issue legal opinions, as well as the
Friday, August 15, 2008
LITTLETON -- When retired Army Master Sgt. George Sanders' family went out of town in June, he went to work, using his newfound free time to lead a remodeling effort at the Senior Center on the second floor at the Town Office.
Friday, August 15, 2008
PELHAM -- If the manufacturer of the graffiti-removal solution that is used by the Pelham Recreation Department needs a spokesman for their product in a late-night infomercial, Brian Johnson is ready to do it.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Flights on the "Aluminum Overcast" B-17 are available through Sunday. Flights are every 45 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. and cost $385 for Experimental Aircraft Association members and $425 for non-members.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Buoy-bell thefts pose navigation concerns PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Bells and gongs are disappearing from buoys off the Maine coast, prompting suspicions that the metal sound signals are being stolen and sold.
Friday, August 15, 2008

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