Search the Globe
Globe archives 1872-present:
Today's Globe
Last year
community
NorthWest Talk
Debate issues, discuss ideas, trade tips with your neighbors on our Globe NorthWest message board.
Letters to the editor
Globe NorthWest welcomes letters to the editor. Letters are published based on space and should include your full name, the city or town you live in, and a phone number for verification. Please send letters to: Globe NorthWest, 80 Hayden Ave., Suite 200, Lexington, MA 02421, or e-mail globenorthwest@globe.com.
local data
Statistical road maps to help show how area cities and towns measure up against their neighbors.
- Firefighting costs as percent of budget, 2010 9/22/11
- Police costs as % of budget, 2010 10/6/11
- SAT scores, 08-09 8/28/11
- Subsidized 40b housing, 2011 9/15/11
Search northwest real estate
Find homes for sale, open houses, community information, and real estate news all about the northwest region.
Regional Video
Coverage area
Globe NorthWest is published in two editions on Thursday and Sunday, each distributed to a different part of the Globe NorthWest readership area. This page contains all stories published in the two editions. Globe NorthWest covers the following cities and towns:
-
Massachusetts
- Acton
- Andover
- Arlington
- Ayer
- Bedford
- Belmont
- Billerica
- Boxborough
- Burlington
- Carlisle
- Concord
- Chelmsford
- Dracut
- Dunstable
- Groton
- Harvard
- Lawrence
- Lexington
- Littleton
- Lowell
- Medford
- Methuen
- North Andover
- North Reading
- Pepperell
- Reading
- Shirley
- Stoneham
- Tewksbury
- Tyngsboro
- Westford
- Wilmington
- Winchester
- Woburn
- New Hampshire
- Amherst
- Bedford
- Brookline
- Derry
- Hollis
- Hudson
- Litchfield
- Londonderry
- Merrimack
- Millford
- Mont Vernon
- Nashua
- Pelham
- Salem
- Windham
contacts
Globe NorthWest
80 Hayden Ave.
Suite 200
Lexington, Mass. 02421
781-860-5500
Fax: 781-860-5554
globenorthwest@globe.com
Assistant editor
Stephen H. Morgan
781-860-5558
morgan@globe.com
80 Hayden Ave.
Suite 200
Lexington, Mass. 02421
781-860-5500
Fax: 781-860-5554
globenorthwest@globe.com
Assistant editor
Stephen H. Morgan
781-860-5558
morgan@globe.com
Override Central
Introducing Budget Blues, a new blog
We're launching a new blog, Budget Blues, to cover the...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Globe City & Region
events
Globe NorthWest listings
Comprehensive listings for galleries, plays, music and other happenings in the area.
Find your news zone
Click on any region on the map to see another Zone page
Editor's note to readers
Globe Northwest will no longer be published. Readers who currently receive Globe Northwest will get either Globe West or Globe North twice a week, and they will include communities previously covered by Globe NorthWest. More information
Thursday's stories
See Sunday's stories
(Globe Staff / David Kamerman)Road tested
The drills are intense: braking at highway speeds, slaloming around obstacles, and regulating tailgating. Offered through Wilmington-based In Control Advanced Driver Training and a scattering of other companies across New England, such courses introduce new licensees to the two-lane blacktop as it is: raw, chaotic, and, sometimes, a battlefield. Above, instructor Kevin Stromski speaks to teenage students about blind spots. (By Taryn Plumb, Boston Globe)
Video Keeping your head
Monitoring cameras becoming more common in public sites
Police in Lowell are installing sophisticated video surveillance systems to watch students inside and outside the public schools as part of a citywide security system to monitor and deter criminal activity. (By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent)
Medford settles $1,000
overtime claim for almost $6,000
Despite the worsening financial situation for Medford's city government, officials spent a year fighting a $1,000 employee overtime claim and have now settled the case for thousands of dollars more than the initial requested amount. (By Brad Kane, Globe Correspondent)
Northwest of Boston,
assessors see rise in tax appeals
Area homeowners increasingly are questioning their property's assessed value, looking for a break on their local taxes as a way to pinch pennies. (By Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent)
Technology links Burlington students with native speakers abroad
When Jackie Spinos entered her senior year at Burlington High School's evening academy this year, Spanish II was a top priority. The 19-year-old needed the class to graduate this spring, but the school couldn't afford to hire a Spanish teacher. Then school administrators discovered Speak Shop, a program that connects students to tutors in Guatemala and Venezuela. (By Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent)
- Behind the Scenes Model train enthusiasts aboard for Sunday fair in Shirley (By Terry Byrne, Globe Correspondent)
- Warrant issued after Andover woman fails to appear for sentencing (Boston Globe)
- Suburban Diary Minuteman Bikeway beckons as winter recedes (By Jeri Zeder, Boston Globe)
- Sharon High advances in trial competition (Boston Globe)
- Andover-linked baseball players propel Wheaton to eight-game winning streak (By Sapna Pathak, Globe Correspondent)
- Tewksbury pitchers adjusting to college ball (By Sapna Pathak, Globe Correspondent)
Sunday's stories
See Thursday's stories
(Globe Staff / Barry Chin)Mixing it up
In a padded cinderblock loft above the Winchester High School weight room, students are allowed to kick, choke, punch, and knock the knees out from under one another. In fact, the combat is taught and encouraged, in what is believed to be the first public high school in the country to host mixed martial arts, or MMA, a ferociously popular and, at times, controversial full-contact sport. (By Taryn Plumb, Boston Globe)
School stimulus cash
handed to some, not all
Peabody and Salem, neighboring North Shore school systems, faced a similar predicament a few weeks ago: Both had roughly $3 million budget deficits; both talked about laying off teachers as the only option. (By Linda K. Wertheimer and Terri Schwartz, Boston Globe)
Workshop offers chance
to work against foreclosure
A government-sponsored workshop in Lowell this Thursday will offer a chance for homeowners facing foreclosure to work out new terms for their mortgages and possibly keep the roof over their heads. (By Connie Paige, Boston Globe)
New shared emergency command center in Stoneham hailed as model for state
A regional coalition has set up a new emergency public health command center at Stoneham Town Hall that will be able to spring into action around the clock and direct teams trained to respond to any disaster in Stoneham and four neighboring communities, as well as provide training for those responders. (By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent)
- Comedy shows surge, for profit (and nonprofits) (By Julie Masis, Globe Correspondent)
- Globe Northwest Community briefing Andover school cited by EPA (Boston Globe)
- Globe Northwest Community briefing Acton's stimulus plan (Boston Globe)
- Reading using old rule to turn off loudspeakers (By Richard Thompson, Globe Correspondent)
- Ambulance response time criticized after house fire (By Julie Masis, Globe Correspondent)
- Leno returning to honor man who helped launch career (By Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff)
- Northwest communities slated to receive stimulus funds for schools (Boston Globe)
- Beverly Beckham Lost treasures gone without a trace (By Beverly Beckham, Boston Globe)
- Globe Northwest Dining Out Authentic taste of Ireland (Boston Globe)
- Globe Northwest people Student catapults to scholarship (By Cindy Cantrell, Boston Globe)
- Globe Northwest Sports Concord-Carlisle senior on right track for college (By Sapna Pathak, Globe Correspondent)
- Globe Northwest High School Track & Field Tracking success (Boston Globe)
- Northwest Sports Notebook One more game for Beckwith (By John Vellante, Boston Globe)
- REGION Workshop focuses on foreclosures (By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent)
- Globe Northwest Community briefing (Boston Globe)
- An editor's note to Globe Northwest readers (Boston Globe)