As 2025 comes to a close, News Link Live reviewed site analytics to identify the year’s most-read stories. Below are the top 10 articles that captured the most attention — ranked by total pageviews.
We even included something you’ll never see from other local newspapers, because their numbers are bad: the total view count per story.
The top 10 stories on News Link Live in 2025
- Fitchburg police officer permanently decertified after findings of sexual misconduct and harassment — 18,397 views
- West Townsend man arrested for exposing himself to woman in Athol Hobby Lobby — 11,416 views
- Fight outside Leominster hotel involving separated spouses and others, with one person wielding a baseball bat, leads police to drug stash in man’s room — 10,896 views
- Three arrested in Leominster drug raid; police find fentanyl, crack, and defaced gun in children’s bedroom — 10,523 views
- Winchendon man arrested after ex-girlfriend records him with loaded Glock, threatening murder-suicide — 10,258 views
- Leominster woman arrested after police seize heroin-fentanyl, cocaine, MDMA, and six types of prescription pills in apartment drug bust — 9,878 views
- Three arrested, four charged in drug bust at Orange home linked to past deaths and ongoing narcotics activity — 9,740 views
- Two arrested in Athol after fentanyl probe uncovers child alone in camper, large drug stash — 8,596 views
- Leominster man with over $70k in toolbox and tire iron initiates crime spree with vehicular assault and police chase, culminating at a gas station where he left $900 and a hammer on the counter — 8,186 views
- Shrewsbury man allegedly held woman captive, threatened to shoot her over withholding sex on second date — 8,127 views
Thank you for reading News Link Live in 2025!
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