UMass Memorial Health has chosen a site for the emergency care facility it says it will build to replace the emergency department at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, shuttered when the hospital closed  last August.

Department of Public Works Director David Smith is resigning his position effective May 19. In a letter to Town Administrator Dan Nason, Smith cited hostility and harassment by a small group of DPW employees as the reason for his resignation.

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified every state in the country that it was canceling the Local Foods for Schools Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. 

Candidates for elected town boards and committees have been in short supply for the last decade or so, but things are looking up.

It took two sessions of 2024 Annual Town Meeting last year—one in the spring, and another in the fall—to debate and decide 39 articles. But at this year’s Annual Town Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, May 3, voters will be asked to act on 44 items in a single afternoon.

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• License your dog
• Rabies clinics for pets
• Ginny Thurston Scholarship
• Boat storage lottery open
• Free house number signs
• Amphibian alert
• Hazardous waste collection
• Mud season underway
• Use rodenticide wisely
• Devens noise report
• Park-and-ride shuttle to Littleton station

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