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Fitchburg City Hall posted formal notice Friday declaring the organization of a new Tourism Destination Marketing District, a step toward funding local tourism promotion, while a separate Spanish-language notice alerted residents to an unspecified change in a voting location. The city's…

Fitchburg officials issued a spray schedule after a second mosquito sample tested positive for West Nile virus in the city this week. The city posted the finding as an "Emergency Alert" on its website, its highest-priority notice category, though exact spray dates for affected neighborh…

Fitchburg posted a new update on downtown infrastructure work Aug. 5, offering few details beyond the notice on the city's website. City Hall has issued a steady run of downtown-related notices this summer, and Wednesday's post keeps residents watching for word on how ongoing project wo…

Fitchburg's library unveiled a full slate of new summer programs even as the community mourned several longtime residents. The Fitchburg Public Library added sessions including Wednesday Write Night, a paper weaving poetry Craft Cafe, and the Fitchburg Silent Book Club, running from Aug…

S&P Global Ratings lowered Fitchburg's state public underlying rating to "A-," the agency said in a notice posted Monday, Aug. 3. The ratings action did not spell out its reasoning in the notice available to Townbrief, leaving residents with limited detail on what drove the change. Sepa…