![TOWNSEND — Townsend reserve police officer Officer Christopher VanVoorhis was arraigned for “assault and battery on a family/member” on June 21 and is due back in Ayer District Court on August 27, according to court records. According to the Townsend Police Department’s sSummary of facts obtained by The Sun, the incident occurred on June 19. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20190425_BREAKINGNEWSManwanted-p1-11.jpg?w=132 "TOWNSEND — Townsend reserve police officer Officer Christopher VanVoorhis was arraigned for “assault and battery on a family/member” on June 21 and is due back in Ayer District Court on August 27, according to court records. According to the Townsend Police Department’s sSummary of facts obtained by The Sun, the incident occurred on June 19. […]")
Former Townsend reserve police officer charged with assault and battery
TOWNSEND — Townsend reserve police officer Officer Christopher VanVoorhis was arraigned for “assault and battery on a family/member” on June 21 and is due back in Ayer District Court on...
![GROTON — A 17-year-old male drowned in the Squannacook River on Wednesday, officials said in a statement. Recovery efforts for a missing swimmer were underway on Wednesday afternoon. The town’s fire department located the swimmer at 4:32 p.m. and subsequently transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Middlesex […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/LOW-L-GROTONSWIMMER-02.jpeg?w=132 "GROTON — A 17-year-old male drowned in the Squannacook River on Wednesday, officials said in a statement. Recovery efforts for a missing swimmer were underway on Wednesday afternoon. The town’s fire department located the swimmer at 4:32 p.m. and subsequently transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Middlesex […]")
![TOWNSEND — The Townsend Congregational Church will host the lawn party at the Townsend Military Band’s Thursday, July 29, concert on the Townsend Common. Church members will be serving hot dogs, hamburgers, and sausages with peppers and onions to hungry concertgoers. Fresh fruit cups, fried dough, popcorn, root beer floats, cold soda and bottled water […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TOWN_SE_072618_BandConcert05-1.jpg?w=132 "TOWNSEND — The Townsend Congregational Church will host the lawn party at the Townsend Military Band’s Thursday, July 29, concert on the Townsend Common. Church members will be serving hot dogs, hamburgers, and sausages with peppers and onions to hungry concertgoers. Fresh fruit cups, fried dough, popcorn, root beer floats, cold soda and bottled water […]")
![PEPPERELL — The Planning Board Monday granted one final continuance on New England Craft Cultivators’ special permit application until Sept. 15. NECC’s Co-CEO Wes Ritchie requested one the continuance to see if the town would either achieve six off-site consumption liquor licenses or have enough pending to reach six. Because the Planning Board appears to […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/low-l-pepperellcultivator1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL — The Planning Board Monday granted one final continuance on New England Craft Cultivators’ special permit application until Sept. 15. NECC’s Co-CEO Wes Ritchie requested one the continuance to see if the town would either achieve six off-site consumption liquor licenses or have enough pending to reach six. Because the Planning Board appears to […]")
![AYER — About 100 residents of Devenscrest Village met with local legislators Friday night after receiving notices telling them to leave their homes in the next 60 days. The notices they received, State Sen. Jamie Eldridge said was not an eviction notice — rather a notice of their intent to evict. An eviction, Eldridge said, […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/LOW-L-devenscrest022-2-1.jpg?w=124 "AYER — About 100 residents of Devenscrest Village met with local legislators Friday night after receiving notices telling them to leave their homes in the next 60 days. The notices they received, State Sen. Jamie Eldridge said was not an eviction notice — rather a notice of their intent to evict. An eviction, Eldridge said, […]")
![AYER — About 100 residents of Devenscrest Village met with local legislators Friday night after receiving notices telling them to leave their homes in the next 60 days. The notices they received, State Sen. Jamie Eldridge said was not an eviction notice — rather a notice of their intent to evict. An eviction, Eldridge said, […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/LOW-L-devenscrest022-2.jpg?w=124 "AYER — About 100 residents of Devenscrest Village met with local legislators Friday night after receiving notices telling them to leave their homes in the next 60 days. The notices they received, State Sen. Jamie Eldridge said was not an eviction notice — rather a notice of their intent to evict. An eviction, Eldridge said, […]")
![AYER — Devenscrest Village residents are on edge after a new landlord told them they would be evicted in the next 60 days. One person familiar with the situation said the eviction notices were sent to residents on Wednesday. The residents will have 60 days to vacate their homes. It appears the evictions are being […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20190425_BREAKINGNEWSManwanted-p1-8.jpg?w=132 "AYER — Devenscrest Village residents are on edge after a new landlord told them they would be evicted in the next 60 days. One person familiar with the situation said the eviction notices were sent to residents on Wednesday. The residents will have 60 days to vacate their homes. It appears the evictions are being […]")
![AYER — On the morning of Friday, June 25, UMass Lowell Professor James Nehring walked six miles to the lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, N.C. Just three days prior, he had spent 10 hours rowing into a gale. His fingers and wrists were swollen from fighting against the intense current. To stay the slightest bit ahead […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/low-l-Nehring-01.jpeg?w=132 "AYER — On the morning of Friday, June 25, UMass Lowell Professor James Nehring walked six miles to the lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, N.C. Just three days prior, he had spent 10 hours rowing into a gale. His fingers and wrists were swollen from fighting against the intense current. To stay the slightest bit ahead […]")
![BOSTON — State Sen. Jamie Eldridge of Acton and state Rep. Brandy Fluker-Oakley have filed legislation designed to improve the mental health care of the state’s incarcerated population. Eldridge as a senator and chair of the Criminal Justice Reform caucus, makes annual visits to the state’s prisons. He said those visits have informed his perspective. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DSC_0597.jpg?w=132 "BOSTON — State Sen. Jamie Eldridge of Acton and state Rep. Brandy Fluker-Oakley have filed legislation designed to improve the mental health care of the state’s incarcerated population. Eldridge as a senator and chair of the Criminal Justice Reform caucus, makes annual visits to the state’s prisons. He said those visits have informed his perspective. […]")
![TOWNSEND — The search for an interim town administrator is picking up. At the Board of Selectmen meeting on Friday, July 9, Board of Selectmen Chair Veronica Kell said the hope is to have the position filled later this month or mid-August at the latest. Kell stated the board is currently looking to hire a […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/low-l-TownsendMemorialHall-01.jpeg?w=132 "TOWNSEND — The search for an interim town administrator is picking up. At the Board of Selectmen meeting on Friday, July 9, Board of Selectmen Chair Veronica Kell said the hope is to have the position filled later this month or mid-August at the latest. Kell stated the board is currently looking to hire a […]")