Michele McDonald for the Boston Globe
The MBTA’s plan to eliminate late-night and weekend commuter rail service comes at a time when commuter rail was supposed to be expanding in the region.
MEDWAY, MARLBOROUGH
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council last week selected Medway, Marlborough and six other towns to take part in its new Local Energy Action Program.
Concord is at the center of a study by a group of graduate students from the Conway School of Landscape Design to assess the town’s readiness to provide its own food.
Justin Locke, of Waltham, has forged a path in self-publishing that’s helped him sell almost 5,000 copies of his two books — a success by any publishing standard.
CONCORD
Fed up with what employees call a lack of respect from management, workers from the Concord Free Public Library are trying to join a municipal employees union.
Newton
The school superintendent, police and fire chiefs, police officers, and a handful of teachers ranked among 190 Newton public employees who earned more than $100,000 last year.
Arlington
A report by the state Department of Revenue recommending Arlington consolidate its financial operations is drawing fire from the town’s three-term treasurer.
The Franklin High girls’ basketball team rolled to their 15th straight victory, clinching the Hockomock Davenport title with a 46-29 win at Attleboro.
The state’s Community Preservation Act has enabled cities and towns to fortify natural treasures, but the program has waned in the last few years.
James J. “Whitey’’ Bulger’s name will always be associated with South Boston, but several of his alleged victims and their families are from communities south of Boston.
A total of 177 dolphins have stranded themselves on the Cape as the mass beachings continue for a second month, an animal welfare group said.
Dorothy Gilman was best known as the creator of Mrs. Pollifax spy novels. But she also wrote “A New Kind of Country’’ a book that changed columnist Beverly Beckham’s life.
Sarah Berman of Milton talks about the Philip Roth novel “Nemesis,’’ which deals with an outbreak of polio in the summer of 1944 in New Jersey.
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