Featured News

By Bonnie Adams, Managing Editor Sutton – Each spring, Worcester County Sheriff Lewis Evangelidis welcomes his office’s reserve deputies to a dinner and swearing-in ceremony. This...

By Dakota Antelman, Contributing Writer Hudson - Selectmen voted unanimously Feb. 5 to join local business leaders in requesting the state government pay $500,000 for...

Northborough - On March 14, a group of area residents stood in Northborough’s center as a show of solidarity with students from across the...

Westborough - Westborough Civic Club’s annual tree, wreath and roping sale has experienced a great start over the past two weeks. With the first...

Shrewsbury - Michaela Brady, 12, will be performing as Clara in the Boston Dance Company's "Nutcracker" Friday, Dec. 16, at Worcester State University. This...

Region – Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld attended a fundraiser at the Worcester Country Club June 6 to show support for Karyn Polito, who...

Westborough – Several dozen people followed a caravan of buses and military vehicles past Westborough’s war memorials in a series of ceremonies honoring veterans Nov 11.

In this week's Community Advocate Read about how a Community celebrates during the Shrewsbury Summer Festival

Shrewsbury – As she prepares once again to participate in the 2013 Miss Massachusetts Pageant at Worcester's Hanover Theatre June 28-29, Caitie Coates knows from past experience the competition will be a challenge. But for this young Shrewsbury woman, working hard is nothing new. It has something she has done her whole life, overcoming the adversity of learning disabilities, including dyslexia and short- and long- term memory retrieval, to achieve her goals.

  Rangers, Hawks battle for position Westborough - Hudson High School's (HHS) senior Marissa Miele (#4, left) battles Westborough High School's (WHS) sophomore Amy...

Team: Algonquin Regional High School wrestling (senior captain). Team stats: 3-1 in league matches and 5-3 overall. Individual stats: 4-0 in super quad against North Attleborough with 3 pins and one Technical Fall. 20-3 overall. Coach: Brian Kramer

Westborough - The Westborough Farmers’ Market has returned to downtown Westborough for its seventh consecutive year. The weekly market serves, in part, as an opportunity for members of the Dismas House social service group to sell farm products to the community.

On Dec. 13 — the seventh night of Hanukkah — Northborough community members gathered on Blake Street to light the menorah.

Worcester – In the early morning hours of Dec. 9, Christopher Roy, a firefighter with the Worcester Fire Department, along with his brave colleagues,...

In this week's edition read Westborough three-sport athlete Kate Sams is ‘every coach’s dream’. Citizens’ petition to disband Design Review

Region - Brandon Proteau, 6, learns about water conservation from instructor Molly Banks during the Aug. 11 session of...

Northborough - Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) hosted Mid- Wach rivals Shrewsbury High School (SHS) Sept. 21 in Northborough for a field hockey matchup.?...

We’ve all heard of mockingbirds, but have you actually seen one in our area?  Or heard one locally? Read more in Nature Notes....

Worcester/Shrewsbury – A year has passed since construction began on the new Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge connecting Worcester and Shrewsbury via Route 9, and, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), the project is still expected to be completed in summer 2015.

Northborough – With its resounding win over rival Westborough High School on Thanksgiving Day, the Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) football team finished its best season since 1987. Now, approximately 10 members of the team will be facing a different kind of challenge in front of a different type of audience. The players are also members of the cast of the school’s production of “Good News,” which will be presented Thursday, Dec. 3 through Saturday, Dec. 5 at ARHS.