Jay Toland News Today

According to Superintendent Marvin Connelly's recommend budget, Cumberland County Schools plans to ask the county for $3.5 million. Here's why.

“If it wasn’t for Jay, truthfully, I don’t think I’d have my heart today.”

When an Oxford resident in need of a heart transplant needed a ride to Boston, he got one from a person — a heart transplant survivor — he barely knew. The act of kindness transpired with help from HeartBrothers, a Marlborough-based nonprofit.

A man who lived in a Boston hospital for seven months while waiting for a heart transplant has gone home after receiving a new lease on life.

Cumberland County Schools' Board of Education gave its stamp of approval on the budget endorsed by Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly.

Nearly 4,700 people in Mass. are waiting for organs. Most need a kidney. Others on the list need a liver, a pancreas and even a heart.

Replacements for five associate superintendents in Cumberland County Schools were approved by the Board of Education.

Fayetteville residents and groups with ideas that could help reduce crime in the area can apply for microgrants through the end of May.

The Fayetteville Observer is publishing databases containing the salaries of Fayetteville and Cumberland County employees.