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Last updated on Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 7:33pm
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:59:21 EST
A local business owner is running for Planning Board in the April election. He will be attempting to unseat incumbent Paul Donohue.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:41:41 EST
Last month the Massachusetts House of Representatives unanimously passed a home rule petition by Rep. John Rogers (D-Norwood) authorizing the town to purchase and lease the Norwood Veterans of Foreign Wars building.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:24 EST
This week marks the 52nd anniversary for Al Blood, a cancer survivor. Through this experience he has touched the lives of so many others.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:27:46 EST
In Atlanta for almost three weeks now, Matt Brown has started to see some “slight muscle movement,” in his left bicep, said his father, Michael Brown.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:39:39 EST
A day after the NCAA championships begin, the Norwood Basketball Association is holding a March Madness of its own next Friday in the form of a 24-hour fundraiser for injured Norwood High varsity hockey player Matt Brown. Teams will be playing non-stop.
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:23:39 EST
Some School Committee members said Wednesday they’re uncomfortable making more cuts to their budget proposal for the next fiscal year.
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:55:49 EST
Norwood’s search for a new school superintendent officially began last week as the School Committee signed a contract with Arthur Bettencourt of the New England School Development Council to conduct a search.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:13:20 EST
The Group Insurance Commission, the state’s health insurance plan Norwood joined in 2008, has increased the cost of its policies, which will cost the town up to $850,000 more than expected in the next budget year. This puts a snag in the budget balancing the town government and the school department have been doing for the past three months.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:18 EST
In 12 out of 17 shifts recently the Norwood Fire Department has taken an ambulance out of service because of low staffing, according to Chief Mike Howard. The situation is unsafe, Howard said.
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:47:09 EST
Calling upon Beacon Hill not to wait until spring to vote on local aid figures for the coming fiscal year, state representative John H. Rogers (D-Norwood) is urging the legislature to take up a local aid vote immediately, citing the fact that municipal official statewide are in the process of preparing their own town budgets for the next fiscal year.
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Last updated on Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 7:33pm
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:15 EST
Selectmen welcome five officers to task force
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:12 EST
The only contested race in the April 27 annual town election will be for a five-year term on the Housing Authority.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:10 EST
55-gallon barrel of motor oil breaks in from cargo truck
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:06 EST
Money to help students get published
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:11 EST
Customers can cancel license plates online and follow instructions to destroy or recycle the old license plate, or return them at a kiosk at the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Plymouth.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:42:10 EST
Mark Daley, 44, of 366 Washington St., Abington, was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Hingham District Court. He was charged with receiving stolen property, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, possession of burglarious tools and possession of a prescription drug.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:03:28 EST
Quincy has hired a Brockton contractor to complete the final phase of the Quincy Center Concourse. J. Derenzo Co. submitted the lowest bid, about $5 million, for the project, which will create a new road across Hancock Street through where the Quincy Fair Mall stands now.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:32:21 EST
Rotary Club continues its drive to fund shelters
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:32:13 EST
A judge resolved an animal cruelty case against 53-year-old Pembroke woman accused of abandoning her three cats by putting her on pretrial probation.
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:49:56 EDT
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Boston.com -- Local news
Last updated on Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 7:00pm
Authorities say a two-alarm fire at a home outside Boston killed an elderly woman and seriously injured an elderly man.
The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades.
A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87.
A. Raymond Tye, a Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions to meet medical expenses for the needy, has died. He was 87.
Medical device maker Medtronic says federal prosecutors are investigating its relationship with cardiologists at a hospital in Massachusetts.
The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades.
After several years of testifying that she was with two men accused of murder in the slaying of a Roxbury man, LaToya Thomas Dickson took the witness stand in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday and, hours after being granted immunity from prosecution for perjury, repeated her new story that she was never there.
BOSTON Despite strong opposition from residents, city officials, and lawmakers, a proposal for a fancy dog hotel in South Boston was approved yesterday by the Zoning Board of Appeal. The kennel plan had been pushed by a South Shore couple who billed it as an upscale boarding facility and weekend day-care stop for the discriminating pet. Called Fenway Bark, the ...
The reported fire on Carol Avenue in Brighton last night turned out to be a false alarm, but fire crews had to jump to work anyway when their own ladder truck caught fire.
AUGUSTA, Maine - A legislative committee rejected a proposal yesterday that would require health warnings on cellphones in Maine, meaning the proposal is all but doomed for this year.
A Superior Court judge has overturned an arbitrator’s decision that an Arlington middle school teacher who was fired in 2007 should be reinstated.
Sell a page from the 556-year-old Gutenberg Bible, one woman suggested. Charge a modest fee for library cards, said another, waving a $10 bill.
A group of Massachusetts mayors, fed up with what they say is legislative inaction on skyrocketing municipal health care costs, has launched a ballot initiative for 2012 aimed at giving cities and towns more flexibility in reducing expensive benefits for employees, retirees, and elected officials.
Boston’s Chinatown memorial to the Tiananmen Square massacre sits at the shaded edge of a children’s sandpit in Mary Soo Hoo Park, a fenced gathering place just outside the neighborhood’s famous gateway.
When he began feeling cramps in his left hand, Doug Oakley attributed it to age and figured he needed to eat more bananas. It wasn’t until he had trouble holding his hockey stick at the regular Tuesday night games that he went to see his doctor.
LAWRENCE - School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy was indicted yesterday on eight counts of fraud and embezzlement alleging that he had school employees complete a variety of personal errands, including providing electrical work at his home in Methuen, hauling away his trash and dumping it on school property, and picking up his grandchildren from school.
A looming budget deficit could lead to the closing of a significant number of Boston schools over the next two years and further reductions in staff, Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said yesterday.
The death of a psychiatric patient who scuffled with correction officers at Bridgewater State Hospital in May has been ruled a homicide, according to a death certificate that found 23-year-old Joshua Messier had suffered “blunt impact of head and compression of chest’’ while being restrained by guards.
In an effort to get the reluctant faithful back to confession, the Archdiocese of Boston is launching an unprecedented campaign - called “The Light Is On For You’’ - using radio spots and a website to promote special confessional hours in nearly 300 parishes during Lent.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. - Authorities are looking into whether a California marijuana grower is linked to the deaths of a Maine couple whose bodies were found down an embankment.
House leaders prepared members in a closed session yesterday for a politically unpleasant effort to reduce state aid to cities and towns in the budget proposal expected to emerge in mid-April. House Democrats said the local aid cut in the House Ways and Means Committee budget could hit 5 percent.
BROCKTON - Michael and Carolyn Riley are still apparently deeply in love, relatives say, describing them as a couple who married 16 years ago after graduating from Weymouth High School and kept close as they struggled with mental disorders and money woes.
The Boston Bar Association, in a report issued yesterday, is calling into question the security of the state’s courthouses because of budget cuts.
Police seized dozens of boxes of counterfeit clothes, shoes, sunglasses, perfumes, and other accessories after a raid on the Super Mario Store on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain late last week.
Last month, Larry Ronan, the great globe-trotting doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, got back from Haiti and described hellish scenes and difficult choices.
Happy anniversary. The stock market hit rock bottom a year ago today, a dismal moment in time that became the starting point for one of the great bull market runs in history. Stocks remain far from their old peak prices, but they have regained an enormous amount of value over the past 12 months.
Mitt Romney was on the David Letterman show last week and hit a home run. It was two white guys from the Midwest, born in 1947, chatting amiably about the icons of yesteryear: Earl Scheib, the car-painting magnate; the Studebaker (a car, for you younger readers) and the Rambler Classic, manufactured by AMC, the automobile company managed by Mitt’s father, ...
Relax, America. Mitt Romney’s got your back. No more of Barack Obama’s pathetic groveling for the world’s greatest nation. No more apologies to the Muslim world. No more suggestion that America encounters problems it can’t solve.
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, updated daily, visit www.boston.com/innovation.
Like all wars, the coffee war was ugly. It was fraught with tension, the threat of violence constant.
The spotlight was cast on the fishing industry last week, with the arrival of a congressional delegation that held a special hearing and the announcement of the settlement of a contentious fine levied against the largest fish auction in Gloucester.
It’s the craziest, silliest, most absurd, and ridiculous thing I have ever done. Well, maybe not. When I was 12, I took modern dance. That was more ridiculous. I am not even close to graceful. I cannot glide like a ballerina across a room. I can barely walk without tripping.
From the perspective of youths looking to party, the two tenements on Burrill Avenue and Plymouth Street couldn’t be more strategically located. The houses, occupied by a handful of Bridgewater State College students, lie just outside the campus and directly across the street from a liquor store. The landlords, meanwhile, live several towns away.
The Framingham school superintendent unveiled an updated school reorganization plan to the School Committee last week that changes the original school pairings and pushes back the bulk of the reorganization for more than a year.
If only there had been a Gloucester pregnancy pact. Everything would be so much simpler.
CNN.com
Last updated on Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 7:00pm
A U.S. woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that this week's explosion of violence is not driven by religious tensions between Christians and Muslims.
The situation in Haiti "remains dire," U.S. President Barack Obama says, adding that the rainy season will exacerbate a desperate need for food, medicine and shelter.
Boris Berezovsky wins his UK libel case against a Russian broadcaster which claimed the Russian oligarch was behind the poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
The United States will hold both Israel and the Palestinians responsible for any steps that make peace between them more difficult, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
When former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package.
Myanmar's ruling junta has announced a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.
President Obama is turning up the heat on private health insurers again, taking his increasingly populist health care overhaul pitch on the road to Missouri.
Former 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob Corey Haim died early Wednesday, authorities said.
Wayne Rooney (right) scores twice as Manchester United crush AC Milan 4-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League and ruin David Beckham's return to Old Trafford.
