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The Board of Health has ruled that all private clubs in the city need to be smoke-free by June 1, 2009, a move that many club members - smokers and nonsmokers alike - feel infringes on their rights.

Ann G. Forcier 544-2652 *Today at 6 p.m., wildlife biologist Trina Moruzzi will be at the Wheeler Memorial Library in Orange to talk about how best to live with the wild animals in your backyard.

As I said last week, this is the time of year for calendars. As is often the case, J.R. Greene from Athol sent his 24th annual Quabbin History calendar, featuring early photos of the area.

George Festa of Orange and his daughters, Lela, 6, and Mary, 5, stand at attention yesterday during the Veterans Day ceremonies in VFW Park in Athol.

A local woman faces several charges after allegedly crashing her car through the front door of a paint store, fleeing the scene, speeding past a state police officer and then crashing her car again near her ...

The election is finally over. Our long American nightmare is finished, at least for two more years, when the campaigning starts again.

Recorder/Paul Franz Traprock Peace Center activists rally for Obama victory on Greenfield Town Common Wednesday.

The concept of community service and volunteerism was foreign to Jaydon Fisher when his first-grade teacher at Holy Rosary School mentioned it to the class about a month ago.

The medical van owned by Veterans Hospice Homestead of Fitchburg has the following schedule this week: *Tuesday: Acton Town Hall, from noon to 3 p.m. * Thursday: Athol American Legion, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ...

A Democratic incumbent and a Republican frustrated by what he describes as arrogance on Beacon Hill will face off Tuesday for a House seat that represents Orange and Athol.

If traffic lights are a measure of a community, it's time for Athol to get over its little-town blues.

It's hard to ignore a ballot question that virtually every civic and business leader in Franklin County agree could have a ''devastating effect'' on life in Massachusetts -- even if you don't take them ...

Linda Donaldson outside her Massachusetts home. She is worried about being able to afford heating bills this winter.

As he seeks a fourth term representing Greenfield, Orange, Athol and three more Franklin County towns in the state House, Christopher Donelan said to come up with ways to help small towns, ''You've got to think ...

In an area rated among the top 1 percent of interior forests in the state, close to 1,000 acres will be preserved after two votes at the fall town meeting last night Voters approved entering into an agreement ...

By the time firefighters arrived just before midnight one Tuesday 22 months ago, the Adams Family Slaughterhouse was already engulfed in flames.

We want to bring some comfort and joy to local men and women in the service during the coming holiday season, said Tessa White-Diemand, telling me about ''Operation Touch of Home,'' which she and Jessica ...

Police search for woman ORANGE -- Local and state police searched the area last night for a woman who left her home sometime after 9 Monday night.

Residents gathered on South Main Street to enjoy the 15th annual Celebrate the Harvest Festival Sunday, which is sponsored by the Orange Business Association.

Fall is prime time for Shepardson Gardens, but a uninsured motorist last weekend set the family back a few months when she plowed her car through their fall display, destroying about $2,000 worth of plants, ...