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DRACUT — The Board of Selectmen last week voted unanimously to not recommend two Town Meeting warrant articles aimed at setting salary caps on both the town manager and superintendent of schools positions.

The left is starting to take aim at Democratic front-runner Joe Biden. At a conference last week, liberal activists repeatedly booed when told that Biden wanted to find "middle ground" on climate policy.

A story in the May 20th edition titled "Groton, Dunstable voters head to the polls" incorrectly reported the number of contested races in Groton.

AYER — The official title of the ambitious building project in progress on Groton Street, where a groundbreaking ceremony was held this week, is the Rail Trail/Commuter Rail Improvement Project.

HAVERHILL — A school van driver faces one count of operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs, among other charges, after allegedly driving erratically while transporting a Lowell Public Schools student, according to police and school

Before President Trump announced that he was imposing 25% tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of Chinese goods, he got encouragement from an unlikely source: Sen.

Whether you agree or disagree with the steward's ruling in the Kentucky Derby that disqualified winner Maximum Security and jockey Luis Saez which resulted in the first disqualification for interference in the 145-year history of the race, we can

PEPPERELL — At the start of this year's annual Town Meeting, officials were waiting for a motion for the town to accept its 2018 annual report.

LOWELL — Claudia Aguirre could hardly believe it as she sat in her small living room last Wednesday.