| 06/19/2013 - GROTON -- Town officials and the administration of Groton School inched closer to agreement on major renovations planned for the historic Farmers Row campus Schoolhouse Building.
Full Story 06/19/2013 - AYER -- Sean Partridge wants to increase the inventory in his used-car sales lot at 42 Littleton Road.
Full Story 06/19/2013 - SHIRLEY -- With a Special Town Meeting set for next week that has just one item on the warrant -- the regional school assessment -- ASRSD Superintendent Carl Mock and School Committee Chairman Joyce Reischutz came to the selectmen's meeting Monday night to update the board on pending revised assessment figures for the two member towns.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - SHIRLEY -- Help the town of Shirley develop a Gateway Plan for the Lancaster Road Corridor. Come to a Charrette Public Visioning Session for land along the Lancaster Road Corridor, which is part of the Lancaster Road Priority Development Area (PDA).
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06/18/2013 - WASHINGTON — Thirty-five years after Congress passed a federal law to protect pregnant women from discrimination on the job, these workers are instead denied reasonable accommodations that other workers receive and often wind up losing income, benefits or their jobs or suffering pregnancy complications, according to a report released Tuesday.
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06/18/2013 - Marissa Powell didn't win, but she's the one everyone is talking about.
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06/18/2013 - The director of the U.S. National Security Agency said Tuesday that a data gathering programs prevented potential terrorist attacks more than 50 times.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - SHIRLEY -- Selectmen at their meeting Monday night appointed a five-member committee to sift through applications for the Town Administrator's position and recommend top candidates.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - GROTON -- At loggerheads with a resident with whom the Board of Health has been struggling for the past four years to clean up his 366 Lost Lake Drive property, members found themselves mired in such details as nailing down when exactly the last day of summer is.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - On the eve of its 10 year anniversary, the Groton Dunstable Education Foundation announces plans to streamline operations for the coming school year to create a more sustainable organization for the future.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - TOWNSEND -- Starting July 1, the limit on the number of trash bags that will be picked up from the curbside will be reduced to three.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - HARVARD -- There will be four sections of kindergarten in the next school year, enough classes to maintain class sizes of 15 to 18 children.
Full Story 06/18/2013 - PEPPERELL -- The North Middlesex Regional High School Building Committee presented its preferred plan for a new 180,530-square-foot building at a community forum at Nissitissit Middle School Monday night.
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06/18/2013 - NEWARK, N.J. — He is a red-headed hacker who hails from Arkansas, goes by the name "weev," and seems to delight in being annoying.
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06/17/2013 - A small group of Republican senators worked Monday on a possible border security compromise that would make a sweeping immigration bill more acceptable to some otherwise reluctant conservatives.
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06/17/2013 - "National Lampoon's Vacation" turns 30 this summer. What better way to celebrate than a cross-country drive?
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06/18/2013 - Spilled beer and missing macaroni lead to a fight between two Florida brothers. That and other odd crimes in this edition of the bizarre blotter.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - TOWNSEND -- The first portion of the Townsend Military Band's Thursday evening, June 27, concert on the Townsend Common will feature music of special interest to children.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - Courtesy photo
Last summer, the cast of Seussical at Indian Hill pose with the sets that will be donated to a Newtown benefit show.
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Pictured from left, volunteer Michael Pauley, curator Meredith Marcinkewicz, volunteer Lucy Arrigo and volunteer Jackie Stanton.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - TOWNSEND -- Join Guy Wadsworth, from the Central Massachusetts Space Modeling Society, and Bob Harrison, president of the Friends of the Library, on Wednesday, June 26, for two one-session introductions to model rockets.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - GROTON -- The Friends of Groton Elders, Inc. are planning a day trip to The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton on Tuesday, July 9.
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By Joyce L. Faiola
Correspondent
GROTON -- Over a dozen people participated in a workshop about gluten at The Natural Market in Groton.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - This photo shows the new kiosk and crew that put it together. The crew was made up of Takashi Tada, Rich Strazdas, Steve Smith, Keith Frederick, George Bacon, and Kyle Strazdas (not in photo).
Full Story 06/17/2013 - AYER -- The town of Ayer is holding a competition for design of a town flag.
The winning design will be submitted to Town Meeting for approval as the official town flag and will be sent to hang in with the flags of the other cities and towns in the Hall of Flags in the State House in Boston.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - TOWNSEND -- On June 13, at approximately 1 p.m., Townsend Police, assisted by Massachusetts State Police, arrested Samantha D.
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Storytimes
Infant Storytime ~ Mother Goose on the Loose (no sign-up) - Ages 0 - 2: Thursday, June 20 at 10:30
Summer schedule for the Infant Storytime will be: Thursdays at 10:30 from July 11 through August 8
Mother Goose on the Loose is an early literacy program that uses rhymes and songs to help pre-reading
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06/17/2013 - As data dragnets and information breaches dominate the news, states are scrambling to cash in on a rapidly expanding business sector by offering tax incentives to firms that protect sensitive information from outside attacks.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - As most of you know by now, the School Committee has hired Dr. Joseph Connolly to continue on as our interim superintendent in the wake of an unsuccessful search last year for a new, full-time, permanent superintendent.
Full Story 06/17/2013 - Propane Case Follow-up
The investigation continues into an incident in which two -- possibly three -- suspects, all Harvard residents, ignited a propane tank at a local residence, endangering themselves and others.
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