Former Ashland man killed in Afghanistan

School officials are searching for a successor to Jennifer Lundwall, who is stepping down as assistant principal at Ashland Middle School to take the helm of a junior high school near Sturbridge.

Residents, town officials and conservation groups have won more time to propose environmental projects to start reversing decades of damage caused to the Sudbury River by the old Nyanza dye company.

PDF: How officials will choose river projects

PDF: Propose a project to restore the river

PDF: Fact sheet on Nyanza and the river

Harry Kisby believed in vocational education. In the late '60s, he served as a member of a committee that helped found Joseph P. Keefe Technical School. He not only helped design the school and establish the curriculum, he taught night courses there, said his son, Dr. Lance Kisby of Danville, Pa.

A Framingham man raped a woman on Myrtle Street in Ashland early Sunday morning, authorities said.