Damien Fisher

TOWNSEND -- Lunch prices are going up throughout the North Middlesex Regional School District, starting this fall. Gerry Martin, the district's business manager, said lunch for students in kindergarten through...

TOWNSEND -- The town is close to finding a different electricity provider to replace Unitil. Tuesday night, selectmen discussed plans to buy electricity for municipal buildings from a third-party provider,...

TOWNSEND -- Selectman David Funaiole needs to mount a write-in campaign for office after he failed to get enough signatures for his nomination papers. Funaiole blames his work schedule for...

SHIRLEY -- Two neighbors, helped by a nearby worker, raced to pull a couple from their burning home as flames erupted in the Mohawk Chalet apartment complex on Great Road....

TOWNSEND -- Townsend officials are looking for a partner to work in and share the costs of its new communications center. Townsend is nearing completion on a $250,000 renovation of...

TOWNSEND -- Karen Clement performs her duties as the Townsend Recreation director from her living room most days. "Our luxurious recreation center offices," she joked, in reference to her makeshift...

Staff Writer TOWNSEND -- John DeCosta is surprised his plan to keep homing pigeons on his Lunenburg Road property is meeting with resistance. "It's an innocent little hobby," DeCosta said....

ASHBY -- Expected cuts in state aid to cities and towns have Ashby officials looking at possible layoffs, according to Selectman Geoff Woollacott. Ashby department heads are meeting in the...

TOWNSEND -- Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. is trying to expand the Community Based Justice program from high schools into middle schools. Leone traveled to Townsend on...

ASHBY -- Advertising for openings on town boards and committees is a basic feature of open government, mandated by state law, but is a recent change to Ashby, Selectman Geoff...