letters to the editor
School Committee addresses Westborough residen residents
      To the Editor: Edi Since February of 2007 the Westborough School Committee has bee been meeting with the Westboro Westborough Teachers Association sociation ( WTA) to negotiate a new con contract. Last October, after eigh eight months of negotiations, tiations, a t tentative agreement was reached.
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Ms. Stevens goes to Washington
      Marlborough - Mayor Nancy Stevens recently visited policy-makers in our nation's capital to share Marlborough's concerns about the millions of dollars needed to upgrade the city's two wastewater treatment plants in order to meet an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirement.
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Letters
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Insurgents find one route into Afghanistan closed
By Doug Grindle Community Reporter
      Editor's note: Our Marlborough reporter Doug Grindle has returned to the Middle East, embedded with U.S. soldiers. He filed this report from Afghanistan. Spira District, Khost Province, eastern Afghanistan - One of the most notorious infiltration routes used by insurgents to cross from Pakistan into Afghanistan is now closed.
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