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 ...

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 ...

GARDNER – Heywood Hospital’s LaChance Maternity Center welcomed Scarlett as the first baby born in 2026. According to an ...

As we enter the new year and read in our local papers about our school district possibly regionalizing, I keep asking myself this question: Will 2026 finally be the year Massachusetts fixes its ...

The dangerousness hearing for an Athol man accused of stabbing a female victim in the neck with a kitchen knife has been continued to Jan. 20. Jack Newbrough, 25, made a brief appearance in Winchendon ...

Tom Ricardi, a raptor rehabilitator, rescued five birds on New Year's Day, including an Eastern screech owl found inside a ...

Beverly Jean LeonardDublin, MA - Beverly Jean Leonard, 93, of Dublin, Ohio, formerly of Orange, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on December 25, 2025.Beverly was born on April 28, 1932, in ...