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By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobavalleyvoice.com
GROTON -- Voters voiced their support for hiring of two additional firefighters and holding off on an override for another year.

CHELMSFORD -- Town Meeting passed a number of big fiscal 2020 budget items on Monday and authorized Nashoba Tech to borrow $3.

LOWELL -- Last year over 800 million gallons of untreated sewer and stormwater runoff flowed into the Merrimack River, a symptom, local leaders say, of infrastructure unable to keep up with current demands even after years of improvement projects

BOSTON -- A Lowell man accused of selling 20 grams of fentanyl to an undercover police officer was sentenced in federal court Friday, according to the U.

By Katie Lannan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- More than 50 immigrants and advocates with snare drums, flags, and banners marched the roughly 25 miles from Framingham to Boston to highlight a push to provide driver's licenses to

Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton
State House News Service
BOSTON -- County prosecutors Marian Ryan and Rachael Rollins joined public defenders and community groups Monday to announce a groundbreaking lawsuit aimed at stopping U.

Tom Ellis, who ruled the TV news airwaves in Boston for decades, has died.

Two Canadian men were expected to appear in Lawrence District Court Monday on charges they were stealing from ATMs in New Hampshire while headquartered in a hotel room in Methuen.

LOWELL -- Finance and marketing, Communications, Environmental sustainability, Culinary and fine arts, and Air Force Junior ROTC -- these are a few of the pathways Lowell High School students have the opportunity to pursue through the internship

BILLERICA -- Michael Becotte unloaded a stack of tiles, box by box.
The Chelmsford resident was one cog in a busy scene unfolding on Wednesday at ReStore in Billerica, which sells home goods and furniture to raise money for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell. Volunteers carried chairs to the showroom floor and awaited the arrival of a set of kitchen cabinets to unload.