Needham Bank , a mutual bank with five branches throughout Massachusetts, promoted Michael Browne to vice president/banking services and compliance.

A citizens petition seeking to dilute the selectmen's power to appoint members to the Finance Committee was defeated by a vote of 46-to-19 at the Fall Town Meeting Monday night.

Nov. 17 Fall Town Meeting voters will be asked to consider joining 10 other towns in using a proposed regional hazardous-waste facility on Cook Street in Devens that would terminate using the Lunenburg DPW, but offer 10 times as many collection dates.

The Acton-Boxborough United Way has launched its annual fund-raising campaign to support social-services efforts.

Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, in conjunction with the local boards of health, will be holding seasonal flu clinics throughout the month of October.

Using the most recent SATs as a measure, the communities west of Boston have some of the best public schools in the country.

Align Health, 28 Andover St., Suite 230, will host an open house on Saturday, Sept.

When families are choosing where to live, they typically ask two questions before all others.

Only a handful of cities and towns in the area adopted new local-option taxes on hotel rooms and restaurant meals in time to implement them on Oct.

Bedford High School's principal resigned Thursday just as the school year got under way.

Stephen Donovan did not spend a single day presiding over the students at Bedford High this school year.

Two men from Fitchburg were killed about 6:30 this morning in what one State Trooper called a 'horrific' accident after a Honda CRV veered from the southbound side of the highway into the northbound side and was broadsided by an oncoming 18-wheeler and then struck by a mini-van. The crash killed one of the men, a 37-year-old passenger in the CRV, ...

Two men from Fitchburg were killed about 6:30 this morning in what one State Trooper called a 'horrific' accident after a Honda CRV veered from the southbound side of the highway into the northbound side and was broadsided by an oncoming 18-wheeler and then struck by a mini-van. The crash killed one of the men, a 37-year-old passenger in the CRV, ...

Two men from Fitchburg were killed about 6:30 this morning in what one State Trooper called a 'horrific' accident after a Honda CRV veered from the southbound side of the highway into the northbound side and was broadsided by an oncoming 18-wheeler and then struck by a mini-van. The crash killed one of the men, a 37-year-old passenger in the CRV, ...

Gems Sensors Inc. recently announced the acquisition of Setra Systems, Inc. , designers and manufacturers of capacitance pressure transducers and related devices.