Students organize 'Adopt a Soldier' project
      Shrewsbury - Some of the members of the Leaders of Tomorrow group at Oak Middle School, (l to r) Ben Lagman, Sam Levine, Jesse Levine, Katie Gordon, Kiery Fisher and Chris Traynor, pose with over 300 pounds of hand-decorated holiday stockings destined for shipment to local soldiers stationed in Iraq.
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Trees, trash, recycling update
      Shrewsbury - To celebrate the success of the Pay As You Throw (PAYT) program, Christmas trees real and artificial - will be picked up at the curb free of charge. Trees may be put out anytime after the holidays. Every household may also put out one trash bag up to 34 gallons in size that is not a PAYT bag during the week of Dec. 29 through Jan. 3.
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Visiting Chinese students, educators need host families
      Shrewsbury - The Shrewsbury School Department is expecting five students and three teachers from Beijing to be in Shrewsbury in late January and early February. Needed are families willing to host an individual for one or two weeks. The arrival date has not yet been confirmed, but will be on or around Jan. 27, 2009. The visitors will depart Shrewsbury around Feb. 4.
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Storm hits hard in Shrewsbury
      Shrewsbury - Left: After the Dec. 11 and 12 ice storm that left thousands of area households without power (more than 10,000 in Marlborough alone), Shrewsbury resident Chrissy Marshall surveys the damage at her house on Richard Avenue.
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'Caroling on the Common' tradition continues
      Shrewsbury - The annual holiday tradition of local residents gathering on the Common, music in hand for an evening of carols and camaraderie, known in Shrewsbury as Caroling on the Common, will take place Tuesday Dec.
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Shrewsbury teen killed in head-on collision
By Melissa Muntz Cole Community Reporter
      Shrewsbury - Michael Von- Behren, 18, a senior at Shrewsbury High School (SHS), was killed in a head-on collision on Route 290 in the early hours of Dec. 14. Michael's vehicle was struck head-on by a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the highway at 2:15 a.m. The driver of the second vehicle, Somang Ath, 26, of Lowell was also killed.
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Culinary arts students create gingerbread house
      Shrewsbury/Marlborough - Gathered in the kitchen of the Courtyard by Marriott in Marlborough to bake, assemble and decorate a gingerbread house are participants of Project MOVE (Mobile On-site Vocational Education): (back, l to r) Shrewsbury High School (SHS) teacher and Project MOVE supervisor Patrick O'Connor, student Sean Wogan, Marriott executive chef Ernie Sena,
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Preschoolers 'jump' for a cause
      Shrewsbury - Aishwarya Silam is all smiles as she jumps during the Parker Road Preschool Jump-AThon. According to Mary Lammi, preschool program director, last month's event was the seventh year of the annual jump-a-thon.
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