MARLBOROUGH – On Sept. 22, staff and students at Whitcomb Middle School joined local leaders in planting purple flags for opioid abuse awareness.
Mayor Arthur Vigeant and Schools Superintendent Mary Murphy helped place hundreds of flags on the school lawn. Each flag represents someone who died of opioid abuse in the last year.
The event was staged with the help of Marlborough Alliance for Prevention and Kathy Leonard, a local activist who lost her son to substance abuse disorder.
