BY CHRIS QUARTARONEFor Mary Selvoski of Bedford, a part-time hobby of sewing ballet clothes for her daughter has turned into a full-time costume business outfitting dozens of theater troupes a year with a warehouse of more than 7,000 costumes. This is only one of the many activities Selvoski has been a part of since moving to Bedford in 1960. In ...

BY SUSAN CLARK Residents in Bedford and surrounding areas will have to wait until next year to exercise at the new Workout Club and Wellness Center at Route 114 and Donald Street Extension. The Workout Club, proposed as a two-story 160,000-square-foot facility and basement, was granted a 90-day extension by the Planning Board on Monday, Oct. 8. ...

BY SUSAN CLARK A pharmacy, a medical office building, a 243-seat restaurant, a bank and a coffee shop – all aimed at providing easy access to 160 senior and 84 assisted-living homes – is slated for Old Bedford Road at Route 101. The land, owned by the Order of St. Benedict-St. Anselm College, is a 40-acre wooded lot abutting ...

BY IRENE LABOMBARDE According to attorney Bill Tucker, the Stop & Shop Corporation has recently entered into an agreement with Starbucks that all new stores will have a Starbucks in them. As soon as current contracts with Dunkin Donuts or Green Mountain Coffee expire, they will be replaced with Starbucks. The Stop & Shop on South River ...

BY IRENE LABOMBARDE The conceptual site plan for the proposed 98,165-square-foot Kohl’s Department Store and 6,907-square-foot Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Kilton Road met vehement opposition from neighbors at the Bedford Planning Board presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 15, and the board discussed a proposal to convert 1,412 square feet ...

BY SUSAN CLARK Three retail plans – a proposed Kohl’s and restaurant off Kilton Road, fast food on Route 3 and an in-store Starbuck’s for Stop & Shop – could soon be approved for the town’s performance zone. The Planning Board will hear the plans on Monday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m., at the Bedford Meeting Room, BCTV ...

BY IRENE LABOMBARDE A 98,000-square-foot Kohl’s department store is proposed between Kilton and Ridgewood roads, along the route 101/114 interchange. According to the conceptual plan, Kohl’s and a Texas Roadhouse restaurant would sit on 14.5 acres, and abut the Ridgewood at Bedford condominiums and the Briston Manor assisted-living ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY A recent flurry of crime in Bedford has kept the Police Department busy with attempted ATM machine heists, robberies and one suspect who tried to flee a local store wearing a new pair of sneakers. Caught on camera Early on Monday, June 4, within about a half-hour, two Bedford gas stations were broken into with the alleged ...