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Learn to search military mecords at the Southborough Public Library Genealogy Club meeting, Thursday, May 20. Read the full article → from Learn to find your ancestors using military records at the Southborough Library

This one is a bit late in coming, but back on May 1, Southborough held its annual Spring Clean Up. DPW Superintendent Karen Galligan told me 52 groups signed up to collect trash from roadways across town. Read the full article → from Earth Day volunteers pick up 550 bags of trash

Framingham resident Ian Schimke, 20, was sentenced to 4 to 6 years in state prison for causing a car crash on Southville Road in December 2008 that killed a Framingham teen. Read the full article → from Framingham man sentenced in Southville Road crash

Last year the popular community garden plots at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land were chock full of tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, sunflowers, and more. This year organizers expect demand for the plots may be even greater, with a chance that demand could exceed availability. Read the full article → from Reserve you community garden plot

A look back at the hot stories and discussions in April 2010. Read the full article → from The month in review: April 2010

Who knows if it’s our proximity to the starting line in Hopkinton, or all the 5K runs we hold in town that serve as training opportunities, but per capita, Southborough had more residents run the Boston Marathon this year than almost any other town in Massachusetts. Only four towns had a higher per capita rate. Read the full article → from 22 Southborough residents ran this year’s marathon

What was billed as a bylaw change to modernize outdated language in the town’s traffic code at town meeting on Tuesday night, became a debate about civilian flaggers versus police details. And when all was said and done, Town Meeting opted to stick with the old language and voted down the article. Read the full article → from Town Meeting rejects article to control use of civilian flaggers

What went on and off the market this week. Read the full article → from On the market this week

The Metrowest Daily News reports on a novel recycling program at Woodward. Students are collecting empty drink pouches – think Caprisun and the like – and sending them to New Jersey-based TerraCycle to be made into useful items like backpacks. The school gets two cents for each pouch collected. Read the full article → from In the media: Southborough students have recycling in the bag

The Southborough Education Foundation wants you to “bee” there (did I really just write that?) on Friday night for the annual SEF Spelling Bee at Trottier Middle School. Read the full article → from Southborough Education Foundation Spelling Bee on Friday night