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Peace, love and Senior Songsters Southborough – Howard Rouse and Connie McDevitt sing a duet in the Senior Songsters production of “The Sizzling 60′s Show,” presented June 7 at the Southborough Senior Center. They were among 35 singers who took a musical trip down memory lane and performed a variety of popular tunes from the [...]
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Pedaling with a purpose Westborough – Over 200 young bicyclists start the fourth annual Westborough Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Kids Ride, held June 3 at Westborough High School. Bicyclists ages 7 to 13 rode a loop on sidewalks around the school, while children ages 3 to 6 rode tricycles a shorter loop around the parking lot. [...]
Shrewsbury – Alice Foster and her granddaughter, Madeline Zawada, 4, enjoy Sparky’s Puppets in “Adventures in Dreamland,” presented June 7 at the Shrewsbury Public Library. The show was especially created for the theme of this summer’s reading program: “Dream Big – Read!” The presentation was made possible by a grant from Together We Can Family [...]
Algonquin moves on to semi-finals Northborough/Southborough – Algonquin Regional High School’s (ARHS) Mike Wood (#12, left) passes off the ball despite the defense of Westborough High School’s (WHS) Alex Benoit (#11, right) during their game June 1 in Northborough. Top-seeded Algonquin hosted eighth-seeded Westborough for the Central Mass Division quarter-final. WHS got on the board [...]
Baby’s first fishing derby Marlborough – Tori-Lee Beals, 14 months, reels in her first catch with help from her father, Lee, while attending Marlborough Fish & Game Association’s annual Kids Fishing Derby, held May 20 at the club’s pond stocked with over 500 trout. The longtime tradition was open to club members’ children and grandchildren [...]
‘Art in Bloom’ Marlborough – Barbara Cooper, a member of the Colonial Garden Club of Marlborough, and Jake Schlehuber, a junior at Marlborough High School, display their work at the reception of “Art in Bloom,” held May 17 at the Marlborough Public Library. Each spring, the exhibit features pairings of floral arrangements designed by garden [...]
Plant sale introduces garden expo Shrewsbury – Ashlea Mirsky shops for annuals with help from Lucy Pupo at the Shrewsbury Garden Club’s annual Spring Plant Sale, held May 19 at the Shrewsbury Senior Center parking lot. In addition to selling herbs, hanging baskets, perennials and cemetery baskets, this year’s event introduced a garden expo. Among [...]
Shrewsbury comes close Shrewsbury – Shrewsbury High School (SHS) junior Yiming Li attempts to clear 4’6″ (1.37m) during the Mid-Wach A League Championship high jump competition May 19. Li missed this height and finished ninth. Shrewsbury hosted the contest and placed fourth overall (100.5 points) behind #1 Wachusett (190.5), Milford (125.3) and Algonquin (113.4). SHS’s [...]
On May 25, 1898, these Marlborough men, part of Company F, 6th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, posed for a picture before they left to fight in the Spanish-American War.
(Courtesy of the photo collection at The Marlborough Historical Society, www.HistoricMarlborough.org).