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From Mayor Sam Squailia:

🚧 FYI here is our planned work for our two Pothole Crews out working today

Today’s Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) pothole work includes:

📍 Coggshall Park
📍 High Rock Road
📍 Kinsman Road
📍 Westminster Hill Road
📍 Saw Mill Pond Road
📍 Rollstone Road
📍 Bluff Avenue
📍 Wanoosnoc Road
📍 Stoneybrook Road
📍 Pierce Farm Road
📍 Benson Street

Hot mix asphalt gives us a stronger, longer-lasting repair than cold patch, especially as we enter this better paving weather. These pothole repairs are part of the ongoing work to keep Fitchburg roads safer and smoother while we continue building toward a more strategic pavement management approach.

Please use caution around crews and give them room to work... a little "hey great job! thank you!" goes a long way too.

According to the city’s assessor records, it is now owned by RB/LX Fitchburg with a mailing address in Portsmouth, NH which is a shared office building.

Hopefully this means something is coming.

Idiot decided to make a 4 point turn in the middle of the road and barreled down the fence. Took 4 people to stop him from running. I shouldn’t have moved my car backwards so I could have been hit too. Honestly think he was drinking. I gave market basket his info regardless if he decides to not report it.

Photo by Christopher Deloge

https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2026/05/18/we-made-it/

“There’s momentum here,” Fitchburg State University President Donna Hodge said to the Class of 2026 graduates at the May 16 commencement ceremony.

Nearly 500 degrees were conferred on Sunday afternoon during the undergraduate event held on the Fitchburg State University (FSU) campus, which followed the graduate ceremony that took place earlier that morning. Thousands of people gathered for the special occasion to cheer on family and friends who are now on to the next chapter of their lives.

Hodge went on to say that “public universities like Fitchburg State are so important right now” and that the graduates “simply didn’t pass through Fitchburg State, you shaped it.”

“Congratulations Class of 2026 – onward.”

Rep. Mike Kushmerek, a double Falcon, along with Fitchburg Mayor Sam Squailia and Gardner Mayor Mike Nicholson were among those who came out to celebrate the graduates and their accomplishments.

Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, who is part of the first all-female executive administration in the state, was the keynote speaker.

“You are all here because you did the work,” she said to the beaming graduates. “It’s about perseverance. It’s about growth. I see determination. I see resilience. Keep moving forward with purpose, with kindness, with courage…go get the world.”

Charles Stevenson, a dual computer science and mathematics major from Rutland and a veteran of the Army Reserve, was named the 2026 recipient of the Robert V. and Jeanne S. Antonucci Award at FSU. He was thrilled to receive the prestigious honor along with his degree and delivered the student address at the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Sunday.

Stevenson spoke about achieving dreams and how support and “the love of community” plays a big role in the success of academic achievements. He then sent his fellow graduates off with these words prior to degrees being handed out by Hodge and FSU faculty lining the sidewalk congratulating them all as they walked by with proud smiles on their faces – “We made it.”