Public safety officials in Southborough have been working with their counterparts in Ashland and Hopkinton to look at regionalizing police and fire dispatch services. The Metrowest Daily News reports the towns just landed a $50K grant to help them with their research. Read the full article → from Southborough and neighboring towns get $50K grant to study regionalization
There’s no doubt fall is upon us, and that means its Bargain Box time again. Read the full article → from Bargain Box open for the fall season
What went on and off the market this week. Read the full article → from On the market this week
The Metrowest Daily News reports that shortly after 8:00 pm a man allegedly tried to hold up a woman near Bill’s Liquors on Route 9 using a silver handgun. Read the full article → from Breaking news: Police searching for armed robber in Southborough
This is one of my favorite parts of Heritage Day. The annual Friends of the Library book and cookie sale will be held on Monday from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm at the Southborough Library. Read the full article → from Friends of the Library book sale on Heritage Day
Need a pumpkin for the Heritage Day pumpkin lighting? Or maybe some cornstalks for the scarecrow contest? Look no further than Chestnut Hill Farm. Read the full article → from Pumpkins and hayrides at Chestnut Hill Farm on Thursday and Friday
The Metrowest Daily News today reports that the building that up until a year ago housed the Benchmark Deli — and more recently the Town Line Deli which closed this summer — is up for sale. Read the full article → from Former home of Benchmark Deli up for sale
Fire department logs for the week. Read the full article → from What the fire department has been up to
An always-popular part of Southborough’s Heritage Day weekend is the pumpkin lighting. Pumpkins range from elaborate to goofy, but they all look amazing lined up on the stone wall along Common Street. Read the full article → from Now’s the time to start planning your pumpkin for Heritage Day
Southborough may be 25% water, but that doesn’t mean there’s a public place to swim. Tonight the Recreation Department will go before the Selectmen to float an idea that would give kids in town if not a place to swim, at least a place to splash around. Read the full article → from Rec Department wants to give kids a place to splash around
The New York Times was in Southborough last month. Specifically, they were at St. Mark’s. It might surprise you to hear they weren’t reporting on the now infamous sustainable meadow. Read the full article → from Southborough in the New York Times … sort of
Governor Deval Patrick has ordered flags across the state to fly at half staff on Tuesday in honor of Private First Class Clinton E. Springer II who died in Kabul, Afghanistan last Friday. Read the full article → from Why flags are at half staff today – Tuesday, October 5
I mentioned this in a blurb last week, but it really deserves its own post. Lifelong Southborough resident John Wilson was recently honored for his community leadership by the Southborough Boy Scouts. Read the full article → from Southborough resident John Wilson a ‘good scout’
Here’s what’s on tap in high school sports this week. Read the full article → from High school sports this week