Want to know what your neighbors are talking about? Here’s a list of the most recent comments on the blog (from newest to oldest).
- Eric Tapper left a comment on Prepare for 12-18″ of snow, longer term chill, and hydrants that need clearing Thank you, Beth, for sharing this information!... January 23 10:55
- Amy Mohn left a comment on More Games at the Library (Tweens thru Adults) mahjongg... January 21 22:37
- JACK BARRON left a comment on Letter: Proposal for addressing Neary School issues Massachusetts is losing population due to unaffordable taxes, high housing prices, a millionaire's tax that is deterring new companies from picking Ma... January 20 21:37
- Kate Haranis left a comment on Letter: Proposal for addressing Neary School issues While I appreciate the ongoing discussion of options, I remain deeply concerned about town board and committee members offering informal, personal cos... January 20 16:59
- Becka Dente left a comment on Letter: Proposal for addressing Neary School issues Hi Al -- while I appreciate your updated proposal to include a much needed fire suppression system in the Neary building, I do think it necessary to d... January 20 15:46
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Thanks for your response Al. After living in southborough for 59 years and being involved with town meetings and voting, im just going to move away an... January 20 10:34
- Carl Guyer left a comment on MassDEP raises concerns about wells near Parkerville Landfill Mr. Thies, It appears clear that the DEP’s January 7 letter was a direct response to your long-delayed report, not a coincidence of timing. Your r... January 17 15:37
- Mike Pojani left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Yes Michael I just have Jeff have attended every town meeting for the past 42 years and as I previously stated the town has changed dramatically! Very... January 17 10:33
- JACK BARRON left a comment on MassDEP raises concerns about wells near Parkerville Landfill very concerning information. I think any school talk or contracts for studies to build classrooms at Neary should be delayed till several specialists ... January 16 20:42
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Sorry Beth, didn't mean to indicate you were for tax increases. And yes michael, I've gone to every town meeting.... January 16 15:23
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Just because they told us about it doesn't make it right. Slow the spending and stop thinking of other ways to tax people. Live within your means like... January 16 14:47
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Im glad other people are taking another look at there tax bills. It just make sense the amount it's increased. Why.... January 16 13:40
- Michael Weishan left a comment on Planning agrees to support temporary Occupancy permit for History & Arts Center (Updated) Hi Beth, Thank you for your generally fair account. However, I — and we, the Board of the Southborough Historical Society — would like to clarify... January 16 00:26
- Mike Pojani left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Hi Al, I understand your point but we have voted down multiple proposals in town meetings yet they are still pursued time and time again. examples suc... January 15 08:03
- Mike Pojani left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) I agree with Jeff 100%. Time and time again this town spends $$$ on project studies some that never happen. Taxes go up with no accountability . I thi... January 14 08:41
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) Hi Carl, I completely understand that prices of things increase. There also needs to be fiscal responsibility, sometimes it's time to rain in spending... January 13 13:45
- Mike Pojani left a comment on “Hands-Off” Protest Tonight Support democracy?? Support a corrupt President is Joe Biden who in less than four years destroyed our great country ! Destroyed our economy let in mi... January 12 08:55
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Retail & Restaurant Update (Updated) We get hope that cosco will help with taxes. Then the town increases the value of your home and increases the tax rate at the same time and we have no... January 09 11:02
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Transfer Station temporarily closed due to (now extinguished) fire in the hopper That fire was at the opposite end of the crusher. I doubt it was a lithium battery. It hadn't been touched yet. More than likely it was hot coals. I w... January 09 10:53
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Transfer Station temporarily closed due to (now extinguished) fire in the hopper They should give the video footage to the police. Charges should be filed.... January 06 18:41
- Kelly Roney left a comment on Transfer Station temporarily closed due to (now extinguished) fire in the hopper Any idea what caused the fire? Did someone dump fireplace remnants that were not quite extinguished?... January 06 13:29
- Anita Reeder left a comment on School Building Project Update: February Special Town Meeting (Updated – again) In the past I have been a cheerleader for those who take the time to govern our town. It is a mostly thankless job and takes a lot of time and effort... December 21 16:11
- Karen Hanlon Shimkus left a comment on Letter: Continued Concerns about the Neary Project It is important to understand critical context:
- The Neary Building is past its useful life. The building should likely be retired for nume... December 19 16:22
- Kelly Conklin left a comment on Letter: Continued Concerns about the Neary Project If a private employer knowingly ran a building with roof leaks, access barriers, and no sprinklers, the public would demand immediate correction and i... December 19 15:34
- JACK BARRON left a comment on School Building Project Update: February Special Town Meeting (Updated – again) Just as general information there are approximately 400 thousand modular class rooms in use currently in the usa.... December 18 11:51
- John Kendall left a comment on The week in government (Updated) I sure hope the DPW asks for some serious money for road repair. Our streets are awful... December 16 17:47
- Mark Pietrewicz left a comment on Assabet’s Pre-Thanksgiving Bake Sale, Early Thanksgiving Buffet, & Annual Showcase Beth, Thank you for the post. I hope many town residents will attend the Showcase on 12/4. Assabet Regional Technical High School is a true gem, and ... December 02 18:01
- JACK BARRON left a comment on School Building Project Update Carl- Please explain two things to me-Why would select people who care greatly about children and desperately want to build them a bigger, fancier and... November 25 19:51
- Carl Guyer left a comment on School Building Project Update Has Southborough’s School Committee Lost Its Sense of Judgment? Two of the four options the School Committee has presented would s... November 22 09:07
- Kathy Cook left a comment on Donate Now to Help fulfill families’ Winter Wishes Beth, Thanks for the post on Winter Wishes. This year we are trying to fund almost $16,000 in Wishes. So far, we have received about $8,000 in donat... November 21 14:26
- Karen Hanlon Shimkus left a comment on Officials agree to bring school building research choices to voters (Updated) Beth, The chart presented above is unbelievably small and hard to read, easily missed by the reader. Can you verbally summarize the numbers presen... November 20 17:04
- Karen Hanlon Shimkus left a comment on Officials agree to bring school building research choices to voters (Updated) Let’s first discuss the takeaways first in a wider context: · The Voter Bill Payers have to ask the... November 20 16:48
- JACK BARRON left a comment on Officials agree to bring school building research choices to voters (Updated) Please be sure to have a minimum of voters who want to vote for a project before it can go forward--such as 51% must agree before anything can move fo... November 18 21:05
- Michael Nute left a comment on Officials agree to bring school building research choices to voters (Updated) As a minor clarification, CIPC did not have quorum at the meeting so I don't believe it was officially a CIPC meeting. Jason spoke well though.... November 18 15:04
- Carl Guyer left a comment on Tax bills going up slightly higher than projected It is certainly admirable that Mr. Cibelli, Southborough’s Town Assessor, remains so steadfastly confident that the growing number of Massachusetts ... November 16 08:37
- Karen Hanlon Shimkus left a comment on Tax bills going up slightly higher than projected The above information explains HOW the tax burden pie is being sliced, i.e. your piece of the tax pie, based on a hypothetical number: your assessed v... November 14 16:05
- Mike Pojani left a comment on Letter: Stay alert on Select Board actions The usual John. They ignore the town people and do whatever their agenda proposes! We have seen it many times in the past ten years. something is vote... November 12 09:21
- Diane Romm left a comment on Big changes coming to ARHS graduation requirements Thank you, Beth, for your very thoughtful post about the new ARHS requirements. One question came to mind, though: Where is the notion coming from tha... November 11 15:15
- John Kendall left a comment on Letter: Stay alert on Select Board actions What the heck is going on at Town Hall?... November 10 17:10
- Thomas Grillo left a comment on Grief Support Group for Seniors (Updated) Please note: this does not work: "To sign up, click here, call 508-481-5676 or email syfs@southboroughma.com."... October 31 23:11
- Michael Nordstrom left a comment on Town Meeting debates how to study a potential rehaul of Town Governance Any idea what other similar towns are doing to address their town government from a process perspective? It seems odd to me that we would propose to ... October 31 09:19
- Karen Hanlon Shimkus left a comment on Town Meeting debates how to study a potential rehaul of Town Governance ARTICLE 10 – Voter Alert and Caution – Article 10 still misses the point: it’s the WRONG overhaul – it’s also ab... October 30 09:25
- JACK BARRON left a comment on Town Meeting debates how to study a potential rehaul of Town Governance How about advisory, selectpersons and planning board each reach out to survey monkey and send three separate surveys to all citizens. One survey from ... October 29 21:18
- Jeff Rudd left a comment on Letter from Advisory to Town Meeting Voters We have a good prospect here regarding Costco. I wish we would stop scaring them away by talking how we want to increase there taxes before they even... October 27 10:02
- Carl Guyer left a comment on Letter from Advisory to Town Meeting Voters All this talk about increasing the percentage of the commercial tax base by adding hundreds of millions of dollars in new development loses much of it... October 26 09:36
- Michael Weishan left a comment on Updated Primer on Monday night’s Special Town Meeting (Updated) Fellow Residents: The impetus behind Article 10 is misplaced. The real problem here is not "modernizing" our government. The critical issue should b... October 23 22:04
- Diane Romm left a comment on Letter: Costco Project Tax Revenue Comparison Carl, What you have provided is interesting. Originally, I planned to vote for the Costco development, given our Town's tax situation. However, this... October 23 07:40
- Alan Belniak left a comment on Letter: New Article 10 – Revised on 10-21-25 "Move from OPEN town meeting to a representative town meeting (Vote no. You will be left holding the bill with literally no voice.)" - You li... October 22 22:25
- Al Hamilton left a comment on Letter: New Article 10 – Revised on 10-21-25 Why we should say Yes to Article 10 I have to disagree with Ms. Shimkus 1. Growth in Taxes – Ms Shimkus appears t... October 22 15:58
- Beth Melo left a comment on Letter: Costco Project Tax Revenue Comparison FYI - Notice for the Tax Classification Hearing where the Select Board will vote to set the tax rate(s) for FY26 was