TOWNSEND -- The North Middlesex Regional School District will begin offering a full-day preschool. New for 2008-2009, the program is open to residents of Ashby, Pepperell and Townsend.   Full Story

AYER - Over 1,000 teams from around the world assembled at the University of Tennessee. Knoxville to show off their problem-solving and teamwork skills in the National Destination Imagination (DI) tournament, and an eighth-grade middle school team from The Bromfield School was among them.   Full Story

Pepperell 4 By Ken Blanchette Sports Editor DUNSTABLE -- The Pepperell American Legion baseball team faced a tough task on Thursday night when the hosted a strong Arlington team.   Full Story

DEVENS -- Although summer has just arrived, and thoughts of school are far from (almost) everyone's mind, at Loaves & Fishes, we are already planning for fall.   Full Story

The Open Meeting Law, and the public's right to know what their elected and appointed town officials are up to, appear to, once again, be getting in the way.   Full Story

DEVENS -- With a gleaming plant, a booming global market and a new $1.2 billion contract with a German distributor, Evergreen Solar is poised for the kind of growth that could eventually place it among the world's elite class of solar-panel producers.   Full Story

Friday, July 18 Olde Home Days: Start of Brookline, N.H., Olde Home Days celebration, at the town ballfield.   Full Story

WESTFORD -- A pair of students from Nashoba Valley Technical High School recently earned a Certificate of Appreciation from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.   Full Story