Neighbors helping neighbors

Worcester – When Auburn Police Officer Stephanie Segur was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma on May 30, she knew that she would have to undergo...

Marlborough - The United Way of Tri-County's Marlborough Community Cupboard, in partnership with BayPath Elder Services, the City of Marlborough, Marlborough Senior Center, and...

Southborough – Southborough Recreation is collecting socks and shoes to send to poor children in Guatemala. Donations of new children's socks and new or...

  Westborough – The Pastoral Counseling Centers of MA (PCC) will be holding an open house at its new 7 Church St. location, Sunday, June...

Westborough – A fundraiser, "Cellissima!" will be held to benefit the family of the late Norman Levitre at the First United Methodist Church Sunday,...

Marlborough - The 130 faculty members of the Whitcomb Middle School in Marlborough had much to "SMile" June 12.? As part of St. Mary's...

Hopkinton – Baypath Humane Society of Hopkinton, Inc. will be holding its annual "Bark in the Park" fundraiser from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m....

Region - The American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery program is in need of volunteers from Central Massachusetts communities to drive local cancer patients...

Region - The Avidia Bank Charitable Foundation recently donated $1000 to Abby's House, Inc., in Worcester, for assistance with homeless prevention. Avidia Bank is...

Southborough - For Dan O"Rourke and Ray Thompson, creating the "Wicked Mud Run" was the perfect blend of business, competition, endurance and as they said, "a wicked lot of fun!"

Northborough- The Northborough Helping Hands Association, Inc., and Northborough Moms and Tots are once again teaming up for the sixth annual Backpack Drive to...

Shrewsbury-Fifteen members of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church have been busy again this year making and tying quilts. A total of 60 quilts were made,...

Region – Mohan John is discovering healthy lessons as a seventh-grader at Melican Middle School in Northborough. His favorite class is math, with science ranking a close second. He recently learned the facts and figures of cancer when a survivor visited his science class. "The experience he had to go through was not very good," Mohan said of the cancer survivor. "He went through all kinds of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Hearing him motivated me a lot."

Westborough-As the Kotosky family, like much of New England, was waiting out the infamous Hurricane Sandy last October, they received a phone call that shook their home on a more personal level. Mark Kotosky, an eighth-grader at Gibbons Middle School had been diagnosed with leukemia and needed to start chemotherapy almost immediately.

Shrewsbury-"Coolidge and Company," a team of fourth graders and teachers from the Coolidge Elementary School, walked in the May 10-11 Relay for Life, raising...

Southborough/Northborough - According to the American Parkinson's Disease Association (APDA), Parkinson's disease affects more than 1.5 million people in the United States. The disease is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system resulting in a variety of symptoms, including muscle rigidity, tremors, and changes in speech and gait.

Shrewsbury - The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that more than 25,000 children under the age of 18 are injured each year in tip-over...

Shrewsbury – Saturday, May 18, the Parker Road Preschool, Parker Road PTO, and the Town of Shrewsbury Parks & Recreation and Highway Departments are...

Northborough - This spring, the Friends of the Northborough Senior Center are taking orders for the center's Friendship Brickway. The deadline to order the...

Westborough – An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held Tuesday, June 11 at the Westborough Senior Center to benefit 14-year-old Westborough resident...