Reporter's Notebook

“I didn’t know whether to duck and cover or stop for lunch,” commented a resident about the unfamiliar alarm sounding in town center three…

Last Friday morning, School Committee Chairman and Capital Planning and Investment Committee member Keith Cheveralls sent the following e-mail to Board of Selectmen Chairwoman…

Most of the voters who showed up at the April 2 Annual Town Meeting expected a choice between two articles addressing much-discussed plans for…

According to town census data, the senior population (residents over the age of 60) has grown from 481 senior residents in 1989 to 1,212…

At this year’s Annual Town Meeting on May 1, the town will be asked by the Economic Development Analysis Team to create an Economic…

I was a serious skeptic. For the past year or so I had been hearing the words "smart board," but I had only the…

If you didn’t see it on cable, the short version is that the selectmen came to blows at their last meeting—figuratively, not literally, that…

Project Adventure is a new program at the Harvard Elementary School, team- taught by the school’s longtime gym teacher, Barbi Kelly, and guidance counselor…

Every year, the Bromfield sports teams do remarkably well. The successes are particularly noteworthy because the school fields a lot of teams, and there…

The corporate retreat is an interesting concept. The idea is that a group of colleagues gather, in a setting different from their regular one,…