Committee to seek about $599,000 for new station
By Caitlyn Kelleher JOURNAL REPORTER
      The Public Safety Committee is asking selectmen to recommend that annual town meeting voters approve approximately $599,000 of new borrowing for the public safety building project. The option would not require a tax increase beyond that which would be covered under the Proposition 2 1/2 limit.
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Planning for the mountain
     (L. to r.) Scott Smyers from Acton, a volunteer with the Friends of Wachusett Mountain, Townsend resident Brian Bettencourt, and Chris Picone from Ashburnham attended the first meeting of the Friends of Wachusett Mountain's Research Committee at the John Hitchcock Visitor Center at Wachusett Mountai...
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Selectmen hold off on school budget recommendation
By Caitlyn Kelleher JOURNAL REPORTER
      The selectmen finished their multi-week review of the annual town meeting on Tuesday during a special meeting. The board didn't take a position on the article asking voters to approve an override to help fund a gap in the school budget because final numbers were not available.
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Historical Piano Concert Series begins 22nd Spring season
      Historical Piano Concerts' 22nd Spring season at Ashburnham Community Church opens Sunday, April 29, with a piano-cello duo, in sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Debussy; three short pieces by the English composer Frank Bridge; and Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise," all written between 1901 and 1912.
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Council on Aging to celebrate its volunteers
      The Ashburnham Council on Aging is lauding its dedication to its volunteers with a celebration at noon, Wednesday, May 2, at the COA, 1 Memorial Drive. The meal will be a catered affair of Chicken Cordon Bleu with supreme sauce, oven roasted red bliss potatoes, peas and pearl onions, and dessert. V...
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Local parish to offer spring giveaway
      St. Denis Parish will offer its First Annual Spring Give-Away. Grand prize is $10,000; second through eleventh prizes of $250. Drawing date is June 2. Limit of 300 tickets to be sold. Ticket cost is $100; with proceeds to benefit the church's maintenance fund. A limit of 300 tickets will be sold.
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