Sue Siebert

TOWNSEND -- To needleworkers everywhere, the name Elsa Williams is synonymous with quality. But who was the Townsend businesswoman behind that name, the woman whose standards of excellence elevated her...

Correspondent TOWNSEND -- While Anson D. Fessendon and some 40 other young men of Townsend -- all members of the 53rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers -- were confronting Confederate guns and...

ASHBY --At The Gardener's Cottage, sisters Laurie Dick and Brenda Donahue offer customers respite from the hurried pace of life. Delectable delicacies tempt taste buds in their café. And the...

Correspondent ASHBY -- Some arrived early, waiting in their cars until the polls officially opened at noon. They were eager to have their voices heard on two ballot questions involving...

Correspondent AREA -- You might be harboring an invasive alien species in your own backyard and not even know it. The Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy announced in a...

PEPPERELL -- "Truly, I have found a labor of love," said Charles Shadan, owner of Evening Sun Fly Shop, an angler's paradise celebrating its first anniversary. By day, Shadan is...

TOWNSEND -- About 1825, a great rising tide of Unitarianism swept across New England and reached Townsend with the coming of the Reverend Mr. Thayer of Lancaster. Until that time,...

ASHBY -- A proposal made by selectmen during a recent brainstorming session, to close the town library should a Proposition Two and a half override fail at the ballot this...

ASHBY -- Voters will be heading to the polls on Tuesday, Sept. 4. At a Special Town Meeting held Saturday morning, voters approved putting two of four warrant articles --...

TOWNSEND -- Those with Townsend roots are probably quite familiar with the Reading Room on Canal Street, remodeled in 1910 and later given to the town by Martha French Homer....