A reminder to put your Scouting For Food bag out by your mailbox by 9:00 am on Saturday. Scouts will be by to pick up the bags and deliver them to Pilgrim Church where volunteers will sort and pack up the food. Read the full article → from Reminder: Put out your Scouting For Food bag on Saturday
With two multiday power outages in as many months, many Southborough residents are wondering if there will be more in our future, particularly as we head into the winter storm season. Read the full article → from Are more power outages to come? Now is the time to prepare
Every year, we offer a class called Thanksgiving 101. If you’ve never hosted this annual American meal, it can pretty daunting, especially if you’re not very experienced in the kitchen anyway. Read the full article → from Notes from the Culinary Underground: Thanksgiving for newbies
With only their mobile devices to connect to the world, Southborough residents flocked to Twitter in the aftermath of last week’s snow, chronicling in 140 characters or less both their amusement and their frustration. Here’s a roundup of my favorite tweets. Read the full article → from Roundup: The best tweets from Snowtober
Need a flu shot? The Board of Health will hold a flu clinic open to all residents ages 12 and older on Saturday at the Senior Center, 9 Cordaville Road. The clinic runs from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Read the full article → from Town offers flu clinic for all residents on Saturday
The tax bill for the average Southborough family is going to go up by $392 this year, a 4.9% increase over last year. In approving the tax rate Tuesday night, the Board of Selectmen said the increase reflects the will of Town Meeting. Read the full article → from The average property tax bill in Southborough will go up nearly $400 this year
Power has been restored to nearly all of the 3,700 Southborough homes and businesses that went dark during last weekend’s snowfall, but for some the wait continues. Read the full article → from Power restored to all but a handful in Southborough
What went on and off the market this week. Read the full article → from On the market this week
Many of you sent in (or tweeted) photos of your yards and other scenes of Southborough after the October snowfall this weekend. Here’s a gallery of your shots. Read the full article → from Your photos: The October snowstorm
Before we all got distracted by the event we came to know as Snowtober, Southborough officials were busy working on a citizen survey to assess what we all think of the town and the services it provides. You should have received your copy of the survey – one per household – in the mail earlier this week. Read the full article → from Southborough wants to know what you think: Submit your resident survey by Nov. 11
Drive around town and you’ll see no shortage of trees and limbs littering yards in Southborough. With many of you faced with the challenge of cleaning up, I’ve put together a little FAQ to answer some of the questions I’m hearing from residents. Read the full article → from Good questions: Cleaning up your yard after the storm
The annual Firefighters Association Halloween Parade originally scheduled for this past Sunday afternoon was one of the first casualties of the weekend’s snowstorm. But with trick-or-treating in Southborough moved to Saturday, November 5, several of you asked whether the parade might be rescheduled as well. Read the full article → from Halloween parade will not be rescheduled, but the library is celebrating Halloween all week
Residents along Parkerville Road south and its side streets were thrilled when their power finally came back yesterday evening after three days in the dark. So you can imagine their disappointment when power went out again a couple of hours later. It was, in the words of one Southborough resident, “a 2 hour tease.” Read the full article → from Power restored and then lost again for some Southborough residents – UPDATED
What the fire department has been up to. Read the full article → from Fire department logs for the week (10/25 – 10/31): Snowtober kept things busy