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Selectmen are working to resurrect a senior tax work-off program that went unfunded for the last few years.

When the organizers of the Walk Against Breast Cancer gather Sunday to hold their annual fundraiser, part of their original team will be missing: resident Maryellen Miller, the inspiration for the event.

Life is hard for family members left behind while their loved ones work overseas. Wives often suffer from anxiety and depression, children feel abandoned and don't perform well in school and parents live with broken hearts after years of separation.

With the demand to reduce escalating energy costs for homeowners and small businesses, three years ago Flemming Lund added infrared energy audits to his home inspection business, Apex Home Inspections.

Cathy Dill is a one-woman exercise machine, often doing more activities in one day than the average person does in a week.

The schools are looking for Town Meeting approval this spring to help cover the cost of tying school buildings into an existing townwide security camera system.

For most MetroWest commuters, the word transportation evokes images of tolls, traffic and time spent on the road. For state Sen. Karen Spilka, the word spurs her to action.

Rather than traditional door-to-door trick or treating on Halloween night, First United Methodist Church is sponsoring Trunk or Treat, with plenty of candy, games, prizes and food available for all.

The annual Heritage Day Celebration yesterday had a sticky ending. Amid the cheers of their friends, four kids put their hands behind their backs and their mouths to work on the half apple pies in front of them.

About 400 local Scouts are busy mapping out routes for the upcoming Scouting for Food campaign to benefit the Marlborough and Hudson food pantries.

The new executive director of the Community Development Corporation is hoping to bring more visibility and focus to the non-profit organization.

With the construction of the new police station attached to Town Hall, the time was right for some improvements to the building as a whole.

Two police officers were treated for carbon-monoxide poisoning Sunday after answering a call about an apparent suicide at a Fairview Drive home.

Stop. Really. Just stop. Stop being stupid. It's hard to decide who needs to hear the message first, what with Jamie Lynn Spears, President Bush and Capital One seemingly all in dire need, but let's start with Capital One.

Madeline O’Neil of Ashland, the 9-year-old girl who modeled for the American Girl Doll "Mia," will be a special guest at the American Girl Doll fashion shows being sponsored by the Medway Foundation for Education in November.

Maple syrup producers in New Hampshire are urging people to be on the lookout for an invasive beetle already found in one Massachusetts city that could devastate the lucrative foliage and maple sugaring seasons.

Since marrying in 1974, Len Gerwick and Deborah Costine have raised an extended family of 60 puppets that includes a lovely princess who tends to get in jams, Rip Van Winkle, a temperamental genie and a menagerie of charming woodland creatures. Video: A puppet show!

Three people were injured yesterday in a head-on collision between a car and truck in the area of 152 Lincoln St., or Rte. 85.

As a candidate for governor, Deval Patrick vowed to reinvigorate the economy, usher in an era of green technology and make Massachusetts a biotech hub all while fighting to lower property taxes.