A list of board and committee meetings for the week with my selected highlights from the agendas. Read the full article → from The week in government: BOS and other boards on Town Meeting Articles and Capital budgets
Karen A. (Mooney) Robillard, 71, of Southborough, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 1, 2019, surrounded by her family. Read the full article → from Obituary: Karen A. (Mooney) Robillard, 71
The schools have decided to let everyone sleep in tomorrow. No early morning wake up calls will be necessary, since they already cancelled school for tomorrow. Read the full article → from Snow Day: March 4, 2019
The Southborough Library is closed today. A glance at the forecast for the weekend in Southborough. Read the full article → from Snow update: Library closed, 2-4″ today, 8-12″ Sun night into Mon
Algonquin athletes are scheduled for several post season competitions this weekend. Unfortunately, winter weather is already begining to impact some schedules. So be on the look out for changes. Read the full article → from Post Seaston Update: Girls Hockey wins State prelim, Boys Basketball to district semi-finals, weather impacts on weekend schedule
Advisory is optimistic that the final budget at Town Meeting will represent just a “cost of living increase”. And the proposed changes for the SAP have been posted (with one semi-controversial item) along with the Final Warrant that went to print. Read the full article → from Town Meeting Update: Taxpayers could see < 2.5% increase; SAP explanation & Final Warrant posted
Northborough and Southborough Public Schools extended the registration deadline for “enrichment” classes over summer break. Read the full article → from K-8 summer enrichment camp’s registration deadline extended to March 8th
Southborough Public Schools and Algonquin Regional High School are delayed today. Read the full article → from School delayed 2 hrs: February 28, 2019
The building for Southborough’s youngest public school students was too cold to open on January 29th when the heating system failed. To get back on schedule with the other schools, it has to get off schedule one more time. Read the full article → from Finn School changing March 29th to half day
Between now and Patriots Day, I’ll be featuring stories of runners donning bibs for a cause. First up is Nathan Rhind. Read the full article → from 2019 Marathon: Nathan Rhind for Michael Lisnow Respite Center
If you’re one of this year’s runners supporting a cause, please reach out. Read the full article → from Boston Marathon runners, share your fundraising stories
Southborough is predicted to get more than a dusting of snow tonight, but not a major storm. It could impact the evening commute – but most likely fall steadily at the tail end of it. Read the full article → from Tonight’s weather advisory: 3-4″ (or 5″) of snow in Southborough (Updated – make that 4-6″ of fluff)
I received another posting of jobs available in Southborough. This one was from the Southborough Police Department. I also learned that the school has posted to recruit the replacement for Assistant Superintendent Greg Martineau who will be moving up to become the head of schools in June. Read the full article → from Southborough job listings: Police officer, Asst. Superintendent of Schools and more
If you’re interested in running for Town Office, you have just under four weeks to pull nomination papers. Read the full article → from Pull papers for Town Election by March 22nd (Updated)