The votes were split at the Wendell Special Election Monday. 26.93% of voters, or 213 of the 791 registered voters turned out for the Special Election on August 4th.
t Monday’s Montague Selectboard meeting, Police Chief Christopher Williams shared that while there is not funding for a full time School Resource Officer in the Gill-Montague schools, Officer Dan Miner will return to the schools as often as he can.
Athol’s Silver Lake has been closed for swimming due to high levels of E. coli bacteria.
The Athol Department of Public Works has issued a precautionary warning after a routine water sample test of the South Street Well detected high levels of perchlorate.
The Montague Selectboard voted to accept the Fiscal Year 2026 sewer rates after a presentation from the Clean Water Facility Superintendent Chelsey Little at the Selectboard meeting Monday evening.
The new Shutesbury Public Library is set to open later this year and when it does, the MN Spear Library will be vacant. A Reuse Committee is forming to take action on the property by researching potential uses for the space.
The Dudleyville Road Drainage Improvement Project may well be completed before the end of this year.
The Route 10 bridge repair project is making progress with Phase 1 of the project coming to a close.
The Montague Capital Improvement Committee (CIC) have released their draft Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2026 through 2031.
A student at Amherst Regional High School has made a significant impact on his community through what began as a middle school civic project that landed a $1,870 grant award from the official equipment partner of the Major League Baseball Foundation.
