Water heater likely cause of Mason Road barn fire
By Caitlyn Kelleher Journal Staff Reporter
      Tammy Moison doesn’t know why a nightmare woke her up early Monday morning but she is very glad it did because it probably saved her barn and her animals. When she awoke the glow from a fire was shooting through the roof of the Moisons’ 41 Mason Road home.
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Community Notes
      Townsend Recreation to offer volleyball program The Townsend Recreation Volleyball Program is open to all grade 5 through 8 students from Ashby, Pepperell and Townsend and will be held at Hawthorne Brook Middle School. The first session is on Jan. 12, from 6 to 9 p.m., which determines session...
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Auditors: Reports clean, but district budget should be balanced
By Karen Mann Journal Correspondent
      Auditors have recommended the North Middlesex Regional School Committee present a balanced budget in future years. The fiscal year 2006 budget was not balanced, Frank Biron and Karen Snow of Melanson Heath & Company, PC., told the school committee at their Dec. 11 meeting.
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