Affordable housing project goes before Shirley planners
SHIRLEY – A state law known as “40B” and aimed at upping affordable housing across the state, allows developers coming into a community with residential building plans in hand to...
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Loaves and Fishes leaders seek publicity
SHIRLEY - Loaves and Fishes Executive Director Patricia Stern and Board member Jim Breslauer met with the Board of Selectmen Monday night seeking the board's assistance in getting the word...
New trash pickup plan on track
SHIRLEY — It's no surprise by now that the town's pay-per-back trash program is phasing out, with a new bin-based system set to come on line in October, replacing disposable...
Field improvement project back on ballot
SHIRLEY — The Ayer Shirley Regional High School fields project was a hot topic last year, particularly in Shirley, where voters will be asked - again - if they will...
Memoir offers window to Shirley’s past
SHIRLEY — Letters, journals, memoirs, vintage family albums offer glimpses into bygone eras that public records alone can't provide. Which is why biographers and historians treasure them as valuable source...
Officials hope to grow open space
SHIRLEY With only eight undeveloped land tracts of 50 acres or more left in town that are not "protected," the Conservation Commission is looking to acquire one of them. Describing...
‘He was a gentleman, a fine, decent man’
SHIRLEY — Friends, family, former colleagues and fellow police officers gathered Tuesday morning at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church to pay tribute and bid a final farewell to former...
Books and Beyond, and more
SHIRLEY —With another school year drawing to a close, students at every grade level at the Lura A. White School have chalked up hundreds of hours in the world of...
DPW director lays out road paving plans
SHIRLEY — When Department of Public Works Director Brandon Kelly presented his town-wide paving plan to the selectmen Monday night, the board not only approved the plan, they welcomed it,...
Ground broken on downtown parking garage
AYER — The official title of the ambitious building project in progress on Groton Street, where a groundbreaking ceremony was held this week, is the Rail Trail/Commuter Rail Improvement Project....