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View ArticlePan Am Railways facing $375G in fines
Pan Am Railways is facing up to $375,000 in federal fines for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act at the company's Waterville rail yard. In an administrative complaint, the EPA said...
View ArticleBacktalk: 2/26/2015
OPPORTUNITY BUST: To the person who wrote in the other day about protecting the MBTA commissioner, saying that the only reason she was being blamed was because she was a woman and that it was Charlie...
View ArticleN.Y. man convicted in wife's death; Billerica woman was shooter
A New York City man was convicted Thursday of setting up the fatal shooting of his wife while the couple was on a walk with one of their young sons in New Jersey. A jury in Morris County deliberated...
View ArticleTruck strikes stranded driver, good Samaritan in Billerica
An elderly motorist who was stranded on Boston Road in Billerica and a good Samaritan who stopped to help were both injured Saturday night when an oncoming truck struck the disabled vehicle, according...
View ArticleTewksbury Senior at Shawsheen Building Her Career
Courtesy Photo: Shawsheen Tech seniors Katelyn Carmichael of Tewksbury and Michaela Cassidy of Billerica are pursuing careers in culinary arts after four years at Shawsheen. Want proof that Shawsheen...
View ArticleWoburn Firefighter Makes the Grade
Firefighter Chad E. O'Clair can count himself among the alumni of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy's 224th class, according to a missive from the institution. The 45-day program for new recruits...
View ArticleFaith in Action
First Church Unitarian, 19 Foster St., will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march from Montgomery to Selma, Ala., at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 8. The service will be followed by a...
View ArticleODs on the rise in Lowell, Middlesex County
Overdoses of opiates like heroin or OxyContin have more than doubled in a two-year span in Lowell, according to a report to be presented to the City Council on Tuesday night. Opiates also accounted for...
View ArticleChelmsford, Shawsheen honored for health programs
The town of Chelmsford and Billerica's Shawsheen Valley Technical High School have been honored by health-insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts for their innovations and...
View ArticleBillerica board stays course on pole-burying plan
To Selectman John Piscatelli, the $2.8 million project burying 16 utility poles near the town center underground is more than it appears on the surface. The project, affecting a portion of Boston Road...
View ArticleHudson firefighter graduates from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy
Hudson firefighter Christopher M. Devoe graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy's Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program in a ceremony Feb. 27 at the Department of Fire Services in...
View ArticleBacktalk: 3/4/2015
FIRE SALE: Chelmsford needs to try and sell the North Road firehouse outright. Anything over the cost of knocking it down is profit.
View ArticleLocomotive hits ice, goes off rails in Hardwick
An engine from Massachusetts Central Railroad derailed at a crossing near Benjamin Roach Field in the Wheelwright section of town Thursday morning. The locomotive was pulling eight cars from Palmer to...
View ArticlePerpetual restriction to protect c. 1782 house
The Pollard-Marshall House in Still River has a lot of history tucked under its Revolutionary-era eaves and in the centuries-deep roots of an ancient sycamore in the front yard that historians say is...
View ArticleBacktalk: 3/6/2015
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT: I can't wait until next Monday night to watch the next Groton selectmen's meeting. It's like watching Laugh-in or Saturday Night Live or Judge Judy.
View ArticleHaroutunian: Find your original will
Q: I need to probate my father's estate for only a few small assets. All of my siblings are cooperating.
View ArticleBroadcast Pix To Launch ?Roadie? Mobile Production System at NAB2015
Billerica, Massachusetts ? Broadcast Pix ? will introduce Roadie, a mobile integrated production switcher at the 2015 NAB Show , which runs April 13-16 in Las Vegas, Nev. With built-in HD streaming and...
View ArticleBacktalk: 3/9/2015
NOT TOO BRIGHT: Light posts in Billerica -- just a big waste of money. They can't attract business.
View ArticleBrianna Marie Vazza, 23 of Tewksbury
She was born in Lowell, on September 23, 1991, the daughter of Anthony Joseph Vazza of Tewksbury and Ana Beatriz Mendieta of Mexico. She was raised in Tewksbury and graduated Tewksbury Memorial High...
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