Mary Lavigne dies

Only two days short of 108 years old, Lancaster’s oldest resident died this week.  The funeral is Saturday.
Imagine what she saw in more than a century of life. She moved to South Lancaster in 1922, already an adult on her own. You or your parents may remember a time before the Interstate highways. Mary Lavigne [...]

Wal-Mart won’t be coming down the pike

Big news in Lancaster today — Wal-Mart has canceled its plans for a Supercenter” on Old Union Turnpike.
Company spokesman Christopher Buchanan says the Friday announcement comes after Wal-Mart decided to slow down building Supercenters — its largest stores — in the U.S. The company will still build a Supercenter in Leominster, only three miles away [...]

It’s Eldridge! … in Lancaster

We hear that Niki Tsongas and Jim Ogonowski will be the major-party candidates in the Oct. 16 special election, but that’s not the biggest story in Lancaster. The big surprise — or is it — is Democrat James Eldridge’s showing in today’s primary election.
Here are the Lancaster Democratic results by precinct (Precinct 1 is the [...]

Race for 5th — 1 month to go

Only a month remains before the primary election for the 5th Congressional District, which covers Lancaster and several towns and cities east of here. The Times & Courier and its sister papers have been covering this 10-way race for months, and we’ve assembled a handy page of links to help voters get acquainted with the [...]

Anything you want (excepting Alice)

Regardless of whether Arlo Guthrie launches into his 20-minute epic “Alice’s Restaurant,” he should be an interesting headliner for the first-ever Nashua River Valley Folk Festival — if for nothing else than to see the reaction of any young fans who show up.
Guthrie’s an accomplished folksinger in his own right, with scads of bona-fide folk [...]

“Now it’s onto Lancaster”

Town Meeting may be over, but several key issues that have gripped the town leading up to the process are still going. Residents voted in favor of purchasing a large tract of open space and building a new senior center, but both issues still have to be approved at a special election. And although the [...]

A team by any other name…

Pick an animal… any animal. With Nashoba Regional High School being asked to re-examine its use of a Native American name (The Chieftains) for its sports teams, a change could be on the horizon. What would they be called? Well, in the world of sports icons and mascots, it seems animals are the only safe [...]