U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts
Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 25 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts.
View ArticleGoing for gold, step by step
Steppin Out Dance Studio owner George Lacerte of Lowell and his cousin and dance partner Carole McOsker of Dracut, share the floor Friday with Celia McCormick, 80, and her husband Ed, 84, of Billerica,...
View Article$200G in cuts sought for $54M Billerica budget
Between now and May 7, the School Committee will be busy looking for ways to slice about $200,000 to meet Town Manager John Curran's $54.19 million budget for fiscal 2014.
View ArticleBillerica police: Man has automatic guns
Police are searching for a man believed to be armed with automatic firearms after he fled in a Porsche sports car from law-enforcement officers in Billerica on Tuesday afternoon.
View ArticleBillerica worker commended for helping save girl
The juicy green grape had lodged itself in her 10-year-old daughter Rachel's throat and mother Lauren Donati was helpless.
View ArticleRestaurant CEO Visits Prison Culinary Program
Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian welcomed Legal Sea Foods CEO and President Roger Berkowitz for a tour of the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica earlier this month.
View ArticleInterviews ongoing this week for Billerica high-school principal post
School Committee member Kim Conway took a look Monday night at the list of finalists for the soon-to-be-vacant post of high-school principal.
View ArticleTrial set for city school-bus driver on OUI charges
A former city school-bus driver charged with driving drunk and hitting two parked cars with schoolchildren on board during a hit-and-run in Lowell in 2011 is scheduled for trial in May.
View ArticleBacktalk: 3/1/2013
SNAIL MAIL: The mail service here in Dracut is unbelievable, I received my mail at 8 p.m. I had to go outside with a flashlight.
View ArticleGomez makes a splash with Cape Republicans
Looking up from her novel as she waited for friends to sit down to lunch, Pauline Salemi was greeted by a welcome sight: Gabriel Gomez, a man she thinks could be just what Massachusetts needs, was...
View ArticleFour from AP in All-Star game
Named to the girls team were seniors and team captains Kiely Annese of Billerica, a forward, and Shannon O'Neil of Tewksbury, a goalie.
View ArticleAllo-Gauthier
Patricia Gauthier of North Billerica announces the engagement of her daughter, NICOLE GAUTHIER, to WILLIAM ALLO, son of Robert and Julia Allo of Clinton Corners, N.Y. The bride-to-be is a graduate of...
View Article12 Billerica High students earn art recognition
Twelve students at Billerica Memorial High School earned recognition for their entries in the 2013 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards.
View ArticleTrindade and Stewart unbeaten N.E. champs
Billerica's Leo Trindade and Dracut's Mike Stewart steadfastly fulfilled their lofty goals on Saturday by winning New England wrestling titles and completing undefeated seasons.
View ArticleShawsheen Tech's Gordon in finals of state speech competition
"I thought I could get past all of the needles and blood," the senior from Tewksbury said with a laugh.
View ArticleBG's Garnick, A-B's relay crowned N.E. champions
Bishop Guertin senior Betsy Garnick and the Acton-Boxboro boys' 4x200-meter relay were winners on Saturday during the 26th annual New England Interscholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships at the...
View ArticleConcerns over transgender-students policy
Area legislators, unhappy with a plan to allow transgender public-school students to choose which gender bathrooms and locker rooms to use, have met with Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester to push...
View ArticleFive Things You Need To Know: March 4
Today is Monday, March 4th. Here are five things you need to know. Library Event: Today at 6:30 p.m., the Lynnfield Library holds a birthday pajama party for children's author Dav Pilkey, creator of...
View ArticleQuestions still loom in Billerica dog-park debate
Since 2009, supporters for what would be the town's first dog park are used to hearing more questions than votes of approval from town officials.
View ArticleEMD Serono Focuses on Details, Communication After Challenges of Hurricane Sandy
It's the little things that get you sometimes. At EMD Serono's Research Institute, staff had learned the lesson of a "freak snowstorm" almost a year to the day earlier and were on site as Hurricane...
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