The Northborough-Southborough Special Education Parent Advisory Council will host a dessert and coffee hour on Friday to welcome back parents and kick off the 2010-2011 school year. Anyone interested in special education services in the district is invited to attend. Read the full article → from Special education advisory group to hold kick-off event
The Gulbankian family will be before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday night in the continuing saga of which businesses they are allowed to operate on their Mt. Vickery Road property. Read the full article → from Gulbankians expected to present plan on Wednesday
The library’s Genealogy Club meets on Thursday. Here’s what they’ll be talking about. Read the full article → from Southborough Library Genealogy Club: Finding Your Ancestral Home
If you drove down Main Street on Saturday morning, you likely saw all the landscaping work going on in front of the Community House. It was all part of an Eagle Scout project coordinated by scout Ken Zarilli. Read the full article → from Scouts spruce up the Community House
A sign on White Bagley Road says it will be closed today through Wednesday. Read the full article → from White Bagley Road closed through Wednesday
Voters in November will have a choice about whether to repeal Chapter 40B, the state’s affordable housing statute enacted in 1969 that gives zoning breaks to developers who include affordable units in the housing developments they build. Southborough has two 40B projects in the works — one on Oak Hill Road and one on Oregon Road — and both developers recently said the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals is dragging its feet to see what happens in November. Read the full article → from Developers accuse zoning board of dragging its feet
A list of department and committee meetings for the week. Read the full article → from The week in government
Each year the Massachusetts Municipal Association holds a calendar photography contest, and they’re looking for submissions from area residents. Read the full article → from Calling all Southborough photographers
Two Southborough Girl Scouts — Nicolette Vere and Lily Pearl — have organized an event to help people learn what it takes to train their pets as therapy pets. Read the full article → from Would your pet make a good therapy pet? Here’s your chance to find out.
There have been a number of Southborough-related stories in the local media lately. In case you haven’t seen them, here’s a round-up. Read the full article → from Media round-up: Southborough in the news
If you’re training for the annual Heritage Day Road Race, you’ll want to know the route. Read the full article → from Check out the route for the Heritage Day Road Race
Scarecrows will once again grace the lawn of the Community House come Heritage Day thanks to the Southborough Gardeners’ Scarecrows Come to Town Contest. Read the full article → from Scarecrows are coming to town again this year
I wasn’t able to attend the Regional School Committee meeting last night, but the Metrowest Daily News reports the audience broke out into applause when the committee voted to name parts of the high school after three notable Algonquin figures. Read the full article → from Regional school committee approves Algonquin naming suggestions
The Foundation for MetroWest is inviting area teens — including those from Southborough — to apply for its Youth Action Council. Sounds like a fantastic opportunity. Read the full article → from Youth Action Council looking for members