GARDNER -- A man wielding a knife fled on foot after robbing the Athol Savings Bank branch on Timpany Boulevard Wednesday morning.

ATHOL - A cat, which may have imagined itself Santa, is lucky to be alive after a family starting a fire in their fireplace Friday night

ATHOL - Some years River Rat Race canoeists are challenged by snow or ice in the Millers River.

ATHOL - A four-term selectman was defeated for re-election and voters overwhelmingly supported three nonbinding questions asking that

ATHOL - Two veteran political leaders will face off in a race for the Board of Selectmen in tomorrow's annual town election.

ATHOL - No one was injured in a fire tonight that destroyed a house on Tom Swamp Road.

ATHOL - If the project is completed, a hiker could walk 20 miles, from the shores of the Quabbin Reservoir to the peak of Mount Wachusett,

ATHOL - If you want to boat or fish on the Millers and Otter Rivers, the water is fine for that, but swimming may be weather-dependent.

ATHOL - Wasting no energy, Owen Rich of Orange raced into the woods at the start of the 90th annual Presidents Day Hatchet Hunt yesterday,

ATHOL - How far have home values dropped in this Central Massachusetts town? The answer sounds like the punch line to a joke, but no one is