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Shannon McNulty is the choral director at Marlborough High School and a vocalist with the Boston-based a cappella group Blacklight.

Marlborough High choral director finds joy in a cappella music

By Ed Karvoski Jr., Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH – Shannon McNulty finds joy in a cappella music. She made this realization both before and after becoming the...
Marlborough High School students install flags late last week. Photo/Courtesy Marlborough Public Schools, Facebook

Marlborough schools hope flag displays continue conversations about addiction

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By Dakota Antelman, Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH - Students at Marlborough High School and Whitcomb Middle School installed thousands of purple flags on their campuses on...
Marlborough Mayor concerned with Phase two of vaccine rollout.

Superintendent gives update on COVID-19 in Marlborough schools

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By Stuart Foster, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH – School officials say they’re happy about the multiple COVID-19 vaccination clinics held by the district amid the ongoing immunization...
Chris Henry stands with Director of Instructional Technology Tom Plati, Jen Smith, Nancy Marrese, Jacquie Carter-Halbrooks, and superintendent of schools Michael Bergeron.

Marlborough Technology Specialist Team recognized at Teacher of the Year ceremony

By Stuart Foster, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH - The Marlborough United Brethren Masonic Lodge awarded the city’s public school system’s Technology Specialist Team with its Masonic...
Sofia Turieo and Molly Coye stand with the Marlborough High School panther. Both students received scholarships from Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation.

Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation awards 31 scholarships

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By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH – Amid the uncertainty and turmoil of the past year, high school seniors still managed to do their best,...

Marlborough Public Schools continue pandemic-era expanded food service

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By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - An extension of the measures taken to provide food continuity during the height of the pandemic, the Summer...
A young person smiles while sitting in the cab of a Marlborough DPW truck. (Photo/Jesse Kucewicz)

Marlborough’s Early Childhood Center hosts ‘touch-a-truck’ event

By Jesse Kucewicz, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH - A choir of honking horns could be heard from the Marlborough Early Childhood Center (ECC) parking lot on...
Staff volunteers meet with the 5th-grade girls at Goodnow Elementary at the beginning of each Girls on the Run session. Photo/Courtesy Amy Fitzgibbon

Goodnow Elementary introduces Girls on the Run to 5th-graders

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - After a particularly challenging school year everywhere, Amy Fitzgibbon, an Adjustment Counselor at the new Goodnow Brothers Elementary...
Students at AMSA in Marlborough and Fukuoka Chou in southern Japan meet for a Zoom meeting on opposite sides of the world. Photo/Courtesy Advanced Math and Science Academy

AMSA students form connection with Japanese high school

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - Perhaps becoming more at ease with Zoom classes throughout the pandemic made a recent cultural exchange over 6,500...

Marlborough Babe Ruth League awards three scholarships

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - Three high school graduates were recently celebrated at a short ceremony at Stevens Field in Marlborough, where they...

Marlborough ECC Director takes one for the Jimmy Fund

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - Andrew Bernabei, Director of Marlborough’s Early Childhood Center (ECC), is not sure where the disposable hazmat suit came...

Marlborough middle schooler wins robotics skills challenge

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - In spite of the pandemic, hybrid and remote classes, and having to rely on Zoom for team meetings,...

Former Assabet students win Department of Defense scholarships

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH - It is often said that lightning does not strike in the same place twice, but this year the...

MHS Seniors enjoy pre-graduation celebrations

By Dakota Antelman, Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH - Before they crossed the stage at graduation June 5, the Marlborough High School Class of 2021 crossed a red...

Assabet holds ‘Rolling Rally in the Valley’

By Jesse Kucewicz, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH - Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School began a week of celebration for its graduating senior class with its...

‘Marlborough is your home’: Marlborough seniors graduate

By Laura Hayes, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH — Dressed in black gowns and colorfully-decorated caps, Marlborough High School seniors walked across the stage at the John...

AMSA celebrates graduation near campus

By Dakota Antelman, Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH - The Advanced Math and Science Academy in Marlborough moved forward with its graduation on June 4.  Held at the...

Assabet graduates ‘courageous’ Class of 2021

By Dakota Antelman, Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH - Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School gathered family members and friends on its football field June 4 to...

Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation of Marlborough is ramping up to increase awards

By Cindy Zomar, Education Coordinator MARLBOROUGH -  In 1989 a group of like-minded Marlborough residents recognized that some students were giving up on their dream...

Marlborough students receive COVID-19 vaccines 

By Vicki Greene, Contributing Writer MARLBOROUGH—Through a collaborative effort between the school district, the Board of Health and UMass-Marlborough Hospital staff, students over the age of...