SHREWSBURY LOCAL NEWS & EVENTS

By Melanie Petrucci, Senior Community Reporter Shrewsbury - The Shrewsbury Education Foundation (SEF) honored the Shrewsbury High School Unified Team with the Community Service Award...

Shrewsbury - Students Together Opposing Prejudice - S.T.O.P. - has announced plans for its seven-week middle school program next February and March. Described as an anti-prejudice youth education and leadership initiative, the sessions address all forms of discrimination.

Shrewsbury - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Cyrano de Bergerac have been called Renaissance men. They excelled in a wide range of different fields. Whatever they pursued, they did extremely well. The new minister of congregational life at the First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury comes from that same kind of background and received his calling to the ministry after many other pursuits.

Shrewsbury – Playing cricket was an everyday event for kids in Gopi Madhavachar’s neighborhood when he was growing up in India. The game, which is a modified form of baseball, is something many kids start to play as young children and then progress up league ladders on school teams and beyond.

Shrewsbury - Pat Borbone might be remembered as a true Renaissance woman. A woman of many talents she was gifted in all the arts…fine...

Shrewsbury - The Shrewsbury Girl Scouts held a talent show Nov. 13 at the First Congregational Church to raise funds for Girls Scouts in...

Shrewsbury – The Shrewsbury Public Library has received a $4,500 grant from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation to help fund the library's English Conversation...

Shrewsbury - For the ninth year the Shrewsbury Garden Club is sponsoring its annual Scarecrows on the Common display as part of the town's...

By Lori Berkey, Contributing Writer   Shrewsbury - Roxanne Starkin fondly recalls her childhood when her mother was studying for her bachelor’s degree and carted her...

    Shrewsbury - Sally Eileen Finn, 91, died in her sleep on Feb. 24, 2021 at Benchmark Senior Living Facility in Shrewsbury. Known as fiercely curious...

Shrewsbury - When you were a teenager, did you dream of accomplishing great things? Shrewsbury native Daniel Levine did. At age 17, with the help of his parents Steve and Jamie Levine, he founded the Massachusetts Children’s Fund (MCF) to fulfill his dream of helping infants and children in need of nutritional assistance. That was in 2006. Today, his dream and the nonprofit organization he founded are still thriving.

By Melanie Petrucci, Senior Community Reporter   Shrewsbury – When Governor Charlie Baker issued an emergency order April 21 extending the closure of all public and...