A divided Board of Selectmen said this week it was not ready to accept the recommendations of the Municipal Building Committee and asked members to come back with a more "thoroughly vetted" scheme for the renovation of Town Hall than the one it was ready to propose.

1998 Bromfield graduate Matthew Saturley, 31, died of multiple gunshot wounds early New Year's Day at a home in Coronado, Calif., in what the San Diego police called a triple murder and a suicide.

Some time on Monday, Jan. 2, Samantha, a friendly golden retriever, became trapped far from shore in the mud flats exposed by the drawdown of Bare Hill Pond.

The Municipal Building Committee was scheduled to vote this week to recommend designs for renovation of Town Hall and for expansion of the senior center at the Hildreth House.

As school reopened this week after winter vacation, children at the Hildreth Elementary School needed to bring an extra 50 cents each day for lunch at the school cafeteria.

Developer Trinity Financial has stepped up its public relations push to promote its Vicksburg Square development proposal to local town meeting voters with a website and an offer to host site visits to its other developments.

Despite the frigid weather earlier this week, a thermometer on the town common is only going up.

Following a well-attended public forum, the town's Municipal Building Committee last week asked its architects to return Thursday with more options and preliminary cost estimates for three of its schemes for the renovation of Town Hall and Hildreth House.