Registration is ongoing for Southborough Youth Baseball and Softball’s upcoming spring season. Programs are available for boys and girls ages 5 through 15. Sign up by January 31 to take advantage of the early registration discount. Read the full article → from Register now for Southborough Youth Baseball’s spring 2012 season
Flags in Southborough and across the state are flying at half staff today in honor of Specialist Keith D. Benson of Norwood. Read the full article → from Why flags are at half staff today: Friday, January 27
Each year the Southborough Town Scholarship Committee awards scholarships to deserving Southborough high school seniors and undergraduates. They’ve being doing it for nearly 25 years now. This year, the committee will hold a Valentine’s Dance to help raise funds for the program. Read the full article → from Save the date: Valentine’s Dance to benefit town scholarship fund – February 4
For the past few years, Southborough mother Jeanne Vanni battled cancer. Yesterday she lot her fight at the age of 48. Read the full article → from Southborough mother loses battle with cancer
Jeanne M. (St.Michel) Vanni, 48, of Southborough died on January 25, 2012, at Mass. General Hospital in Boston after a battle with cancer. She was the beloved wife of Scott P. Vanni for the past 14 years. Born in Marlborough, she was the daughter of the late Rita L. (Mauro) St. Michel and Ronald E. Read the full article → from Obituary: Jeanne M. (St.Michel) Vanni – January 25, 2012
Earlier this month the Southborough Police Department warned residents that an organization seeking donations for the police force was a scam. Now the Southborough Fire Department wants residents to know that a group soliciting donations on their behalf is the real thing. Read the full article → from Firefighters kick off their annual fundraising drive
Good news! The Metrowest Daily News reports this morning that the historic Garfield House – the stone mansion located on Main Street between Parkerville and Deerfoot Roads – has been purchased by a Sudbury developer who intends to restore the property. Read the full article → from MWDN: Southborough’s Garfield House to be preserved
What went on and off the market this week. Read the full article → from On the market this week
Each year Southborough Youth & Family Services organizes a gift card drive to make the holidays a bit brighter for local families who are having a tough time, and as they have in the past, Southborough residents stepped up to donate to the cause. Read the full article → from Southborough Youth & Family Services thanks residents for their holiday generosity
Voters at Town Meeting in April will face a decision that could fundamentally – and dramatically – change the way Southborough operates. It won’t be an easy decision, so it’s one we all need to get educated about. Here’s one great opportunity to do just that. Read the full article → from Get informed: Public meeting on town manager legislation – Monday, January 30
The Board of Selectmen, in a joint meeting with the Advisory committee last night, got a look at the latest round of town budgets, and both groups agreed there was more work to be done. Read the full article → from Selectman tells departments they need to justify budget increases
Southborough Project Respect – a collaboration of town departments, parents, and the schools – will host an anti-bully workshop at Trottier next week. The program is intended to give parents, coaches, and those who work with children, hands-on strategies to deal with bullying and tools for building respectful cultures. Read the full article → from Southborough Project Respect to host anti-bullying workshop – Tuesday, January 31
What the fire department has been up to Read the full article → from Fire department logs for the week (1/17/12 – 1/23/12)
David P. Scattergood, late of Englewood, Florida, recently passed away in Ballston Lake, New York. Mr. Scattergood, who was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1922, was 89 at the time of his death. Mr. Scattergood spent his youth in New Jersey, one of three brothers raised by his widowed mother, and then earned his Read the full article → from Obituary: David P. Scattergood