Dave Watkins

Westford's Pay-As-You-Throw trash program officially began this week, reshaping how residents handle waste disposal after cart deliveries started June 8. The town also announced a regional grant providing free Chromebooks and digital literacy training to residents, per its News Flash fe…

Westford closes town offices and the J.V. Fletcher Library for the Independence Day weekend as the nation marks its 250th anniversary. The library, operating from its temporary home at 515 Groton Road during an ongoing renovation, will reopen Monday with a full slate of summer programmi…

Westford enters July juggling a new trash program, a heat emergency, and a Stage III water ban. The town activated J.V. Fletcher Library as a cooling center for Wednesday and Thursday as temperatures spike through July 3, while Pay As You Throw enforcement and cart reminders dominate th…

Westford's J.V. Fletcher Library opens as a cooling center Wednesday and Thursday as an extreme heat wave threatens to push the feels-like temperature past 110 degrees across Massachusetts through the Fourth of July weekend, per Westford Patch's statewide coverage of the forecast. The l…