It’s a relatively light week meeting-wise. On Tuesday the Board of Selectmen will get an update on the new police station from the Municipal Facilities Committee and the Historical Commission. The two groups have been at odds over the project, so it could make for an interesting discussion. Here’s the full line up for the Read the full article → from The week in town government
Your weekly sample of stories in the local media that have a Southborough connection. Particularly good if you want some Doritos for the ride “People that live in Southborough, they’d like more parking around the site.” —Vinnie Patel, manager of Fitzgerald’s General Store on his hope to offer commuter rail parking at the store. He Read the full article → from Southborough in the news
Southborough isn’t the only Metrowest town seeing stars this spring. Kevin Costner and Ben Affleck were in Framingham this week. Southborough’s brush with the Hollywood famous will happen in May assuming all the contracts get signed. I’ll have an update on that hopefully next week, so stay tuned. Read the full article → from Metrowest is the new Hollywood
The happy screams of children playing outside. The soft buzz of drowsy insects. The gentle rustle of new leaves. The incessant clunk, clunk, clunk of a robin throwing itself against my window. As I sit here typing, a robin is engaged in mortal combat with his reflection in my picture window. He attacks the window Read the full article → from The sounds of spring
If you haven’t checked out any of the Buffalo Soldier exhibits, you have one more chance. For the past 6 weeks or so, Stony Brook Museum has presented Southborough resident Pete DePina‘s collection of Buffalo Soldier memorabilia along with various guest speakers. On Sunday the exhibit moves to the hall at Pilgrim Church and will Read the full article → from Buffalo Soldier exhibit wrapping up this weekend
The Southborough Gardeners will welcome spring this weekend with an Art in Bloom exhibit at St. Mark’s. Thirty-one gardeners will exhibit floral arrangements that interpret sculptures, water colors, oil paintings, pencil drawings and photographs created by art students at St. Mark’s School. An opening gala takes place tonight from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Refreshments and Read the full article → from Art in Bloom exhibit this weekend
Did you know that between July 2008 to March 2009, over 105,000 titles were checked out of the Southborough library? Or that on average, 1,500 people use the library each week? Not bad. And did you also know that the library gets new titles in all the time? I though it would be interesting to Read the full article → from What’s new at the library this week
Town Meeting played nice with Northborough on Monday night when it came to budget assessments, but when the topic of debt assessments came up on Tuesday night, voters decided it was time for some tough love. There were two articles on the warrant this year that talked about assessments. The first had to do with Read the full article → from Town Meeting rejects Algonquin compromise
The Northborough-Southborough Music Association (NSMA) has posted photos from last month’s musical tribute to Dennis Wrenn, the Algonquin music director who died while on a school trip to Greece. You can view the photos on the NSMA website. Read the full article → from Photos from Dennis Wrenn musical tribute
The fire logs for the week are posted below. And courtesy of Wicked Local Southborough (aka, The Southborough Villager) we also have police logs for weeks of April 1, March 25, March 18, and March 11. Monday 4/13/09 02:41 EMS call Main Street 11:07 EMS call Clemmons Street 14:10 EMS call Moulton Road 14:43 EMS Read the full article → from Fire and police logs
Tomasso Trattoria and Panzano Market are doing their part to aid victims of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit the Abruzzo region of Italy last week. This week they’re offering Abruzzo-inspired dishes and tastings with proceeds going to the NIAF/Abruzzo Relief Fund. Here are the details. Antipasto at Tomasso Now through Saturday Tomasso is offering a Read the full article → from Tomasso and Panzano fundraising for earthquake victims in Italy
Southborough’s Salon Entre Nous will host their second annual charity fashion show, “Fashion With A Voice,” on Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Country Club (map). All proceeds benefit Voices Against Violence, a nonprofit organization in Framingham that provides free services to victims of domestic abuse. Read the full details in the Read the full article → from Southborough salon hosts charity fashion show
I’m on forced vacation this week from the job that actually pays my bills (hint: it’s not this blog). Everyone in my company of over 6,000 was required to take the week off with pay as a cost-saving step. And as an additional cost-saving step, there will be no raises for any of us this Read the full article → from Town employees to get raises next year
Happy (or unhappy) tax day to you all. I’m curious how many of you skipped town meeting (or American Idol) last night so you could work on your taxes. Did you do your taxes yourself? Buy a software program to guide you through it? Or maybe you used a professional tax preparer? According to the Read the full article → from Poll: How do you do your taxes?