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April 18, 2008  RSS feed
Girl Scouts focus on famous women
Northborough - Members of Northborough Girl Scout Troop 533 (l to r) Linnea Henningson, 11, Sami Marchetta, 12, and Julie MacArthur, 12, are dressed as chefs in honor of Rose Totino, who invented the frozen pizza, for a World Thinking Day event held at Melican Middle School in March. More...
Local student focuses on 'Relay for Life'
By Mary Pritchard Contributing Writer

Shrewsbury - At age 11, Sam Sahl didn't understand what cancer was and why people at her summer camp were so sad. Staff and campers had heard that her camp counselor from the previous year, Todd Schwartz, was fighting cancer and was not doing well. More...

Everybody gets into the act

Marlborough - All youngsters in the audience, including (l to r) Jillian Dion, 6, Raya Keir, 6, and Bethany Berard, 10, get into the act with professional artists during the presentation of "Folktales East and West," City Stage Theater's travelling performers, staged April 5 at the Walker Building. More...

 Westborough
• article has image Westborough author to speak about Atlantic coastline
Westborough - Scott Shumway's aff ection for the ocean, coastline and all things living in, on and around it began when he was a 3-year-old vacationing with his parents and grandmother in Ocean City, N.J. Decades later, that aff ection serves as both a vocation and avocation for the Westborough resident. More...
• Youth group holds fundraisers for mission trip
• article has image Going, going … gone
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 Northborough
• article has image Police, American Legion to honor veterans
Northborough - Upon hearing that the Vincent F. Picard American Legion Post 234 planned to place 11 Memorial Squares throughout town to honor residents who gave their lives in the service of their country in World War II and the Korean War, the Northborough Police Department's Patrolman's Association couldn't step forward to help fast enough. More...
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 Shrewsbury
• Off road vehicle use banned at protected site
Shrewsbury - The Shrewsbury Board of Selectmen has agreed to post signs prohibiting the use of off road vehicles (ORVs) on town-owned land off of Seneca Street at the request of the Conservation Commission. More...
• Pro and anti-override arguments released
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 Southborough
• Public hearing with EMC pushed to May 5
Southborough - A public hearing to discuss EMC Corp.'s wish to construct a series of buildings on property along Route 9 has been rescheduled and will be part of the Planning Board's Monday May 5 meeting agenda. The public hearing was originally scheduled for the March 31 Planning Board meeting, but was postponed at the request of EMC attorney Chris Toomey. More...
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 Marlborough
• article has image Rotary Club meets
Marlborough - (l to r) Marilyn Perry, president of the Marlborough Rotary Club, George Whapham, quality assurance manager with the Agfa Corporation, and Dave Walton, one of the owners of Patriot Ambulance, gather April 3 at the Marlborough Rotary Club meeting at Coral Seafood. More...
• Green Marlborough organizes Earth Day fair
• Local stroke, osteoporosis screening April 30, May 2
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 Hudson
• article has image Intel volunteers help recycle computers, electronics
Hudson - Intel employee Ed Galan carts a computer monitor at the annual community-wide PC/TV Electronics Recycling effort, held April 11 and 12 in the parking lot of Super Stop & Shop. Those bringing in items to be recycled were asked to make a donation of $10. Money collected goes to the United Way of Tri-County to support critical services. More...
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 Viewpoint
• letters to the editor
Reader responds to Senior Center cartoon
Dear Editor: I was most dismayed when I saw the cartoon of the planned new Northborough Senior Center on page 3 of your most recent publication (3/7/08). The piece was not credited (except for a scrawled signature) so I cannot correct a specific reporter but I think, on review, you will find some of the "facts" erroneous. More...
• article has image So close ... yet so far
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 Schools
• article has image Enrichment programs off er unique opportunities
Westborough - At the end of a busy school day, there are some kids who want nothing more than to get outside and play with their friends. Others need a snack and a half hour of TV to unwind. And then there are those who run straight to their greenhouses to see how life is developing on another planet. More...
• Committee votes on fee reduction options
• School budget $36.3 million, an increase of 3 percent
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 Sports
• Local sports roundup:
Westborough Warriors sixth-grade A Division travel team wins second straight league title
Westborough - Led by a balanced offensive attack and a suffocating defense, the Westborough Warriors, an A Division travel basketball team made up of sixthgraders from the Mill Pond School, captured their second straight conference championship last month. More...
• Girls lacrosse team led by solid core of seniors
• article has image Making his pitch
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 Business
• article has image East Main Automotive
Local car repair shop goes green
Northborough - By now, everyone knows that replacing light bulbs and driving fuel-efficient cars are ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Now, the owners of the East Main Automotive have found ways go "green" doing car repairs and maintenance, as well. More...
• article has image Liberty Fitness and Weight Loss
• Bay State All Stars events schedule
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 Homes
• article has image Investor Report: Investor Market Strong
Some people might assume that with the overall real estate market down, investors in single-family rental homes are fewer and fewer in number. Nothing could be further from the truth: New research by the National Association of Realtors found that investors accounted for more than one out of five of all home purchases last year - 21 percent. More...
• article has image Karloff joins Weichert, Realtors Ernie Houde Associates
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 Obituaries
• Donna Dalzell, 61
Southborough - Donna (Holland) Dalzell, 61 of Meredith, N.H. and Hobe Sound, Fla., died Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Tufts Medical Center in Boston after a short illness. She was the wife of the late Hugh Dalzell, who passed away in 2001. More...
• Eugene J. Rossi, 95
• K. Barbara Clark, 72
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