Peter Currier

WILMINGTON — Voters at the Dec. 7 special Town Meeting voted to reject the proposed MBTA Communities districts with just a few weeks to go before the state’s Dec. 31 deadline.

BILLERICA — Dozens of cars and trucks rolled through Billerica with a police escort Monday afternoon, carrying veterans, members of Gold Star families and more than 200,000 wreaths destined for Arlington National Cemetery.

TOWNSEND — Two elementary schools in the North Middlesex Regional School District will likely be closed after the end of the current school year with district officials citing a lack of state financial support.

BILLERICA — Town Meeting representatives approved Billerica's proposed zoning to comply with the MBTA Communities law ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline and with legal cases still pending in other communities.

The Littleton Police Department was a bustling scene Saturday as cars steadily flowed through to drop off donations of toys and gifts destined for financially struggling families so that they can have gifts to give to their children this year.

DUNSTABLE — Fire crews from a number of different local departments responded to a four-alarm fire in a residence across the street from the Dunstable Fire Department.

DUNSTABLE — Fire officials investigating a Monday residential fire say they believe the blaze to have been accidentally sparked by wood stove ashes that were improperly disposed.

LOWELL — The Merrimack Valley Food Bank received a donation of more than 800 pounds of food Tuesday afternoon, all collected by a team led by an Innovation Academy Charter School senior and Project 351 alum from Lowell.

LOWELL — Riverbend, the organization formerly known as Lowell House , has continued to evolve this year following its name change with the opening of its newest residential reentry program, Road to Renewal.

LOWELL — Two years after receiving a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, UMass Lowell researchers provided an update at the halfway point of a four-year project to measure contaminant levels in tap water across four Merrimack Valley communities.