Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. […]

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It contains arrests and samplings of police activity. Those arrested are innocent until proven guilty. […]

Apple Tree Arts stages "Peter Pan and Wendy" at 7 p.m. May 17 at the Grafton Middle School, 22 Providence Road. […]

As the town continues to struggle financially, voters will be asked to approve a $25.1 million budget for fiscal 2014, as well as a $1.4 million Proposition 2-1/2 override for supplemental funding for that budget. […]

Firefighters battled a pesky two-alarm fire at 3 Cross St. this afternoon. Fire was coming from four sides of the Cape-style home when the first firefighters arrived, about 1 p.m., according to Fire Chief Dean Kochanowski. […]

A Holden police officer, Leominster firefighter, two area state troopers and a good Samaritan from Pawtucket, R.I., were among those honored by the Massachusetts State Police at the Statehouse Friday for heroic lifesaving actions. […]

Walmart , the giant retail chain, held a ceremony earlier this week to mark the installation of a new solar array system at its Walpole store. […]