Only 207 voters checked in to participate in Saturday’s Town Meeting. Based on the timing of who left mid-meeting, it seemed many of them were there to weigh in on the request to borrow up to $25M to invest in improving roads and sidewalks. Read the full article → from $25M for Roads & Sidewalks
The Town announced that Cordaville Hall will be closed for the day on Monday, April 6th. The building at 9 Cordaville Road is home to the Southborough Senior Center, plus a few Town departments. Read the full article → from Cordaville Hall/Senior Center will be closed on Monday
The Metrowest Daily News reports today that one of Southborough’s two proposed 40B affordable housing projects got approval from the Zoning Board this week, while the other is still waiting. Read the full article → from Stonebrook Village 40B a go, Woodland Meadows still pending
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 Recreation Department reports that some classes in their popular after-school program for kids at Finn, Neary, Woodward, and Trottier are already full. Others have just a few spots left. Read the full article → from After-school RAP classess filling fast
The Southborough police and fire departments are each down an employee, and both chiefs went before the Board of Selectmen last week for approval on how to fill the vacancies. They got very different answers. Read the full article → from Selectmen consider how to fill police and fire vacancies
Several of you recently questioned how stone dust and other material purchased by taxpayers for the Triangle Park project ended up on the private property of a Triangle committee member last year. Committee Chair Nancy Vargas doesn’t disupte that the material was moved to a resident’s yard, but says the whole incident is a “misunderstanding.” Read the full article → from Triangle Park committee member calls charges a ‘misunderstanding’
Their sights may be set on Bristol, CT, but the Southboro Little League team got a moment on Tuesday night to reflect on what they’ve already accomplished. Read the full article → from Selectmen honor Southboro Little League team
If Southborough was intimiated at the thought of facing the defending state and New England Little League champions in today’s round-robin match up, it didn’t show. Our boys stunned West Peabody with a 10-0 win, their second shutout of the tournament. Read the full article → from Second shutout for Southborough Little Leaguers in state tournament
Each summer we rent a cabin on a little lake in New Hampshire. I look forward it all year — the time with family, the peace and quiet, the cool water, the call of the loons at dusk, the spiders as big as your head. … Okay, maybe not so much that last part. Read the full article → from What I did on my blogcation
Several eagle-eyed readers noticed some black boxes cropping up around town and wondered what they are. Guesses included controls for new traffic lights and utility boxes. I asked DPW Superintendent Karen Galligan for the real story. Read the full article → from Good question: What are those black boxes?
Above: The NSGL end-of-year party (contributed photo) A My Southborough reader sent in this report of the end-of-year celebration for the girls youth lacrosse league: The Northborough – Southborough Girls Lacrosse End of Year party was held June 7 at the Pavilion of Neary School in Southborough. The girls from grades 3-8 celebrated another great Read the full article → from Girls lacrosse league celebrates season
I noticed several end-of-school parties as I drove about town yesterday, but none were quite as elaborate as the one staged at the Kolenda house on Blendon Woods Drive. Read the full article → from Batter up! Southborough kids host backyard Wiffle ball tourney
A house on White Bagley Road will be set ablaze on Saturday, and the Southborough Fire Department will be the ones lighting the match. Read the full article → from Firefighters get to practice the ‘real thing’ on Saturday