Pat and Diane Pietro have sold their businesses, Tintagels Gate and Flowerland, to Arlene and Dale Belliveau, who will ...

Massachusetts is not facing disruption to its $293 million share of federal child care payments after the Trump administration announced a nationwide freeze in response to fraud allegations in ...

Judith Ames, a devoted wife, mother, sister, and grandmother. Passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 7, 2025, in Palm Bay, Florida, at the age of 74. Born on July 30, 1951, in Athol, Mas ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a grant of $551,195 to MassHire Franklin Hampshire to provide job training and other services to 30 of the 78 workers laid off from L.S. Starrett Co.'s Athol ...

Ralph C. Mahar Regional School, Athol-Royalston Middle School and Athol High School are three of the seven North Quabbin ...

The threads that connect us are the fabric of our community.” On a late summer evening, I met with some of my neighbors on David and Susie’s porch. We drank lemonade, ate a few too many cookies, and ...

Heywood Hospital has contained a cybersecurity incident that occurred last fall, and all services have been fully restored, with additional safeguards and security measures implemented to protect ...

Local activist groups organized protests in response to the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, with many calling for President Donald Trump and ...

John A. CutterWillimantic, CT - John A. Cutter, of Willimantic, Connecticut, formerly of Athol and Fitchburg, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully at Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, ...

Michael "MJ" Publicover Jr.Winchendon, MA - It is with a heavy heart that we announce the untimely passing of the adventurous and compassionate Michael "MJ" Publicover Jr. on December 26, 2025.

Four more proposed ballot questions have officially cleared the necessary signatures to move forward on the path to the 2026 ballot, leaving two left to be processed, the state Elections Division ...

Orange resident Amelia Clarke spent six weeks volunteering at the Children of Kilimanjaro Orphanage in Tanzania, where she ...