Damien Fisher

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...

TOWNSEND -- The Zoning Board of Appeals has approved a 36-unit elderly housing complex that expands the existing Atwood Acres facility. The board voted unanimously last week to approve the...

TOWNSEND -- Officials upset with state low-income housing laws are doing something about it, by approving more low-income housing, Selectman David Chenelle said. He contends that the Massachusetts law regulating...

Staff Writer TOWNSEND -- John DeCosta wants to avoid any problems before he gets his homing pigeons. The Lunenburg Road man will go before the Zoning Board of Appeals to...

TOWNSEND -- Middlesex County towns are getting cut out of the federal aid to cover expenses incurred during the December ice storm and power outage, according to Townsend Town Administrator...

TOWNSEND -- Ann Oakes awoke at 4 a.m. on Friday to the sound of a tree crashing through her roof. "It sounded like my house was blowing up," she said....

Staff Writer SHIRLEY -- Jonathan Hobbs laid in a hospital bed 10 years ago, incapacitated from a spinal cord injury and breathing through a respirator. "You wake up, you got...

TOWNSEND -- Santa Claus will make 400 personal appearances throughout Townsend on Christmas Eve, thanks to the volunteers with Townsend's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6538. The VFW has sent...

TOWNSEND -- Town administrator Greg Barnes is assuring residents the Fire Department's purchase of a $768,706 ladder truck will not go the way of neighboring Ashby's botched fire truck purchase....

Staff Writer TOWNSEND -- All town boards and departments are being told to get ready for a possible 15 percent budget cut in the 2010 fiscal year. Selectmen and members...