A long-anticipated regional land conservation deal involving the City of Framingham, the Towns of Ashland and Sherborn, and private landowners is now stalled due to a fundamental problem: the seller doesn’t actually own all the land that’s been promised. The proposed $475,000 acquisition, which was marketed as nearly 40 acres of floodplain and wooded land

NO ONE WASHED THEIR HANDS. AT ALL. “No hand washing was observed during the entirety of the inspection.” (Violation 2-301.14) NO HOT WATER AT THE START OF THE INSPECTION. “No hot water in establishment at the beginning of inspection.” (Violation 5-202.12) RAW MEAT STORED WITH COOKED FOOD. “Raw meats and cooked meats

Framingham News – March 6, 1738 (Reported April 29, 1738) As told in The Daily Gazetteer, London A most astonishing thunderstorm struck the town of Framingham earlier this March—startling residents by its force and fury, especially so early in the season. Lightning struck near the home of Mr. Uriah Drury, blasting through the ground

On April 5, 1770, the Maryland Gazette reported on the Boston Massacre and mentioned one of the victims only in passing: “A Mulatto man named Johnſton, who was born in Framingham, but lately belonging to New-Providence, and was here in order to go for North-Carolina, killed on the Spot, Two Balls entering his Breaſt.” No

The 1933 Framingham Child Murders That Shocked a Nation Framingham, Massachusetts – May 26, 1933 The fire was meant to look like an accident. But the truth it tried to hide was even more horrifying. Inside a six-family tenement on Waverly Street, first responders found two children dead and a third clinging to life. Initial

On March 30, 1928, the battered body of 27-year-old Marguerite Isabelle Stewart was found lying beside the Cambridge Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts. A respected supervisor at the Beverly School for the Deaf and daughter of a Worcester family, Miss Stewart had suffered a massive, fatal blow to the skull. The right side of her head

3:30 a.m., February 3, 1923 – McGrath Square, Saxonville Patrolman William H. Welch, a 15-year Framingham Police veteran, was walking his beat on a rainy, sleet-slick morning when he noticed a man acting suspiciously near the mills. Just hours earlier, a store in South Sudbury had been burglarized—postage stamps stolen. Welch was on alert. He stopped