The Montachusett Region (also known as North County) is a region comprising several cities and towns in the north-central area of
Massachusetts surrounding
Fitchburg. As it has no legal standing in state government, definitions of the region vary.
The terms, which are used interchangeably, are usually understood to refer to the area economically tied with the cities of
Gardner,
Fitchburg and
Leominster. The "North County" label—the county referred to is
Worcester County—is often used to emphasize the area's distance and separate political identity from the
county seat at
Worcester.
The region is sometimes defined as including Fitchburg suburbs in the northwestern corner of
Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The region's leading
daily newspaper, the ''
Sentinel & Enterprise'', is published in
Fitchburg.
Another, the ''
Telegram & Gazette'' of Worcester, publishes a "North County" daily edition and ''Montachusett T&G'' semiweekly insert, both of which cover most of the areas usually considered parts of the North County and Montachusett regions.
Montachusett–North County towns include (towns in Middlesex County marked with *):
*
Ashburnham
*
Ashby Ashby may refer to:
People
* Ashby (surname)
* Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (1267–1314), governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England
* Walter Ashby Plecker (1861–1947), American physician and publ ...
*
*
Athol
*
Ayer*
*
Clinton
Clinton is an English toponymic surname, indicating one's ancestors came from English places called Glympton or Glinton.Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Dictionary of Surnames''. Oxford University Press, 1988 Clinton has frequently been used as a given ...
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Fitchburg
*
Gardner
*
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
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Hubbardston
*
Lancaster
*
Leominster
*
Lunenburg
*
Petersham
*
Phillipston
*
Princeton
*
Royalston
*
Shirley*
*
Sterling
Sterling may refer to:
Common meanings
* Sterling silver, a grade of silver
* Sterling (currency), the currency of the United Kingdom
** Pound sterling, the primary unit of that currency
Places United Kingdom
* Stirling, a Scottish city w ...
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Templeton
*
Townsend*
*
Westminster
*
Winchendon
See also
*
South County
*
Montachusett Regional Transit Authority
References
Geography of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Regions of Massachusetts
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