Community Advocate

Marlborough - Nianh Moore, 7, and Jordan Savitsky, 8, display the mugs they decorated with painted designs during an art workshop held ...

It is one thing to read an account of the genocide that occurred in the central African nation of Rwanda in 1994. It is quite another, Westborough High School (WHS) students would surely attest, to hear a personal account.

Marlborough - Nickole Soto and Kevin Boucher, two multi-athlete students from Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlborough, have led by...

Shrewsbury School Superintendent Dr. Joseph Sawyer presented a revised district budget for fiscal year (FY) 2012 at the March 9 School Committee meeting. Although the proposal is a 2.98 percent increase over last year, the $48.5 million proposal is still $2.1 million more than the $46.3 million recommendation put forth by Town Manager Daniel Morgado.

Hudson - Rita A. (Murphy) Millett, 78, died Tuesday March 8, 2011, at Marlborough Hospital. She was the wife of the late...

Hudson - Barbara R. (Redman) Cardoza, 90, died Monday March 7, 2011, at Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Northborough. She...

Northborough - Elsie M. (Hansen) Davison, 86, passed away peacefully at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, surrounded by her loving family. She...

By Nancy Brumback Contributing Writer Shrewsbury - "We'se not just a physical therapy center and we'se not just a gym. We are all about...

By David Fassler Community Reporter Hudson - Amid a flurry of photographs and with approximately 20 friends and family members looking on, the...

When Kelsey Reilly, a sophomore at Shrewsbury High School, started planning her 16th birthday party, she decided that she didn's want to be like everyone else. She wanted something unique, something very special, and something that would be lots of fun.

A touch of the Olde Sod livens up the restaurant scene on Route 9 in Northborough. The Celtic Tavern has both the look and feel of a traditional Irish pub, although the lunch and dinner menus are skewed toward American.

The Northborough Education Foundation (NEF) is gearing up for its second annual Quiz Night, a fund-raiser, to be held at Cyprian Keyes Golf Club in Boylston Friday, April 1, to benefit Northborough Public Schools.

Voters will be asked at the May 14 Annual Town Meeting to approve a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Agreement between the town and eClinicalWorks, a Westborough-based business that develops software for the medical industry.

Marlborough - Step dancers from McInerney School of Dance of Auburn perform for guests at the seventh annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner,...

Marlborough - After 18 years on the Marlborough City Council, seven of those as president, is Arthur Vigeant now considering a run...

With the town facing a significant financial deficit, some Southborough residents, as well as several officials, believe the community must start to actively court businesses in order to get them to locate to the town. But for this to happen, the Board of Selectmen believes, all other town boards must share the same philosophy.

By Seth Stutman Community Reporter Northborough - The Northborough Board of Selectmen welcomed three guests to its meeting March 14 – State Senators...

Art Simas Community Reporter Marlborough - Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School was one of four schools in central Massachusetts last month to...

By Matt Taylor Contributing Writer Northborough - It has been nearly 100 years since John and Walter Wegman opened the Rochester Fruit and...

By Joan Goodchild Community Reporter Shrewsbury - The sixth-grade students on Judith Avery's Purple Team at Sherwood Middle School have enjoyed this year's...