HOLDEN, Mass. - At an emergency meeting held Thursday night, the Wachusett Regional School Committee voted to reduce assessments to member towns by $455,566, after the Senate Ways and Means released a budget that slated the district for an aid increase of that amount. […]

Voters soundly defeated a Proposition 2-1/2 override that would have covered portions of the town's municipal budget and Wachusett Regional School District assessment at the ballot box - leaving the town's leadership with few options beyond layoffs, building closings and darkening streetlights if the district's voters approve the WRSD budget a […]

Despite a Finance Committee recommendation to slash the school budget, Sterling supported the Wachusett Regional School District's amended budget plan at its town meeting tonight. […]

Rutland firefighter/paramedic Bradford Bemis, who has been on paid leave since March 29 pending the results of an internal investigation into an alleged theft, has come to an agreement with the town of Rutland and voluntarily ended his employment, Acting Fire Chief Seth Knipe said today. […]

A 52-year-old campground manager and longtime Board of Health member was killed and his son was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash near 214 Pommogussett Road early yesterday morning, according to police. […]

Massachusetts continued its long slog out of the recession in April, as employers added jobs for the fifth consecutive month and the state unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than three years. […]

HOLDEN, Mass. - At an emergency meeting held Thursday night, the Wachusett Regional School Committee voted to reduce assessments to member towns by $455,566, after the Senate Ways and Means released a budget that slated the district for an aid increase of that amount. […]

HOLDEN, Mass. - Though the election has come and gone, Holden voters will now have another opportunity to participate in one of the purest forms of democracy at next Monday's Town Meeting, with the warrant to include an amendment involving the sale of the old Police Station. […]

Voters soundly defeated a Proposition 2-1/2 override that would have covered portions of the town's municipal budget and Wachusett Regional School District assessment at the ballot box - leaving the town's leadership with few options beyond layoffs, building closings and darkening streetlights if the district's voters approve the WRSD budget a […]

HOLDEN, Mass. - With a turnout of around 11 percent as of 5 p.m., Holden's races for selectman and school committee are shaping up to be decided by a small segment of the town's population - but there is still time to cast ballots before polls close at 8 p.m. Polls opened at 7 a.m in all five precincts around town, and by 11 a.m. only 381 of the .. […]

Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School student Shawna Babineau, 17, and her classmate, Russell Holbert, 16, have been singing since they could talk. […]

Wednesday, May 16: 8:06 a.m.: A suspicious car was reported on Boston Turnpike. 8:21 a.m.: A medical call was reported on Wilder Road for a man vomiting and not feeling well. […]

Pam Boisclair of Worcester and her husband, Steven, stand near the Beaver Brook Park street hockey rink in Worcester yesterday, behind posts where an aluminum bench had been bolted. […]