Community Advocate

Playground weather is here as the temperatures start to go up again. But the students at Paton Elementary School in Shrewsbury won's have any equipment to play on this season.

To the Editor, I have been a Boy Scout for two and a half years, and I have done a lot of community...

Marlborough and state officials were stunned March 15 by the news that Fidelity Investments would be closing its Marlborough offices over the ...

1st Lt. Scott (Scooter) F. Milley of Sudbury, a 2005 graduate of Lincoln- Sudbury (L-S) Regional High School and a cum laude graduate of the University of New Hampshire, was an Army Ranger who gave his life serving his country as a member of the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army. He was killed in Afghanistan last November.

Marlborough - Dilan Seemungal, 4, prepares to glue a fuzzy beard onto the figure he created at the Puppet-Making Workshop conducted March...

Shrewsbury - Members of the Karyn Polito Golf Committee, (front, l to r) Michael Gregory, Karyn Polito, Wendy Mickel; (back) Monique Rose,...

Northborough/Southborough - (l to r) Doris Walsh, Beth Wolfset, Barbara Dyer and Steve Boyle work out during the Feb. 16 meeting of...

The second and third floors of Whitney Place, an assisted living community on the Salmon Health and Retirement campus in Westborough, serve as a warm and supportive home to approximately 54 elders.

For those of a "certain age," the thought of libraries brings up visions of card catalogs, the Dewey Decimal System and elderly women shushing those who dared to do more than whisper.

Neil Burke has gotten used to success and accolades during his coaching career so when the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association (MBCA) came calling with one more award, he was prepared for the attention. This time though, it happened to be the paramount achievement for someone in his line of work.

During February vacation week, school was out and the Shrewsbury High School (SHS) building was empty, save for a few staff members who had come in to do some work.

Shrewsbury will have a change in two significant leadership roles this spring as Thomas Josie steps down as the general manager of Shrewsbury Electric and Cable Operations (SELCO) April 1.

After paring the town budget once again at its regular meeting March 15, the Board of Selectmen will look to the school departments to cut a total of $570,000 from their budgets.

It is one thing to read an account of the genocide that occurred in the central African nation of Rwanda in 1994.

Stating that they would not be fulfilling their commitment to the town as elected officials, the Board of Selectmen declined to approve a citizen's request to allow a question regarding a $4 million underride to be placed on the warrant for the May 14 Annual Town Meeting.

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...