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Vol. 47 | No. 28 | July 9, 2021

Northborough, Southborough, Westborough lead region in vaccination metrics

Students, volunteers collaborate on Westborough accessible trail project

By Stuart Foster Contributing Writer

By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor

REGION - Northborough, Southborough and Westborough are exceeding the state average for COVID-19 vaccinations by wide margins, data shows.

That is just as neighboring communities sit still keeping pace with the rest of the state but with substantially fewer vaccinations relative to their populations.

Northborough, Southborough and Westborough boasted 87 percent, 84 percent and 87 percent vaccination rates, respectively, according to a July 1 update from the state Department of Public Health.

Those numbers surpassed the share of vaccinated individuals elsewhere in the immediate area as Hudson, Marlborough, Grafton and Shrewsbury all had similar rates, with 69 percent, 67 percent, 66 percent and 71 percent of residents, respectively, being fully vaccinated.

The trend persisted in data tracking residents with at least one dose.

WESTBOROUGH - Local residents of all walks of life will soon have a new woodland trail to enjoy, thanks to the labors of the Westborough Community Land Trust (WCLT), a team of volunteers, and a handful of area students.

Projected to be completed as soon as this fall, the “all persons’ trail” around Gilmore Pond will be accessible to everyone from people pushing strollers to individuals using wheelchairs to individuals with vision impairments. That, alone, will mark a change as this stone dust and boardwalk pathway will replace an existing trail that currently features a number of hazards, limiting access.

“It’s very easy for a lot of people to get to if they’re hikers,” said WCLT Stewardship Committee Chair Keith Martin. “But it’s not so accessible if you are mobility impaired.”

Health Agent touts volunteer response, regional clinic Speaking shortly before this latest data release, Northborough Health Agent Kristin Black noted that Northborough, Southborough and Westborough had some of the best vaccination rates in the whole state. She said this has been helped by volunteers at local vaccination clinics.

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Trail project includes rope line Land Trust members began pursuing accessibility measures at Gilmore after recognizing similar efforts by Mass Audubon.

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VIEWPOINT Newspapers… the cornerstone of community journalism N ewspapers have been part of the Massachusetts lifestyle for over 300 years, actually pre-dating the American Revolution. With such a long, proud history it’s particularly disappointing to see the closure of two more mastheads this month, Dave Bagdon Publisher The Marlborough Enterprise (est. 1889) and the Hudson Sun (est. 1902). See communityadvocate.com for related story.

Is it because the newspaper is no longer relevant, or is it just easier to make profits in a digital format? Some would argue that the newspaper is just the delivery method, but the truth is that the corporate mandate to close these papers coincides with a downsizing of news teams and resources. Do the corporate giants believe that news consumers don’t care about their newspaper anymore or they just chasing the profits that come with reduced printing and staffing?

I would submit that newspapers are more important now than they’ve been in 25 years.

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communities more self-reliant. Local consumers are viewing “buy local” as more than a slogan; they’re actually doing it. Community pride seems to be at an all-time high and the stronger the sense of community is, the more valuable a committed, local news source becomes.

Facebook is great; it’s wonderful to stay connected with friends we rarely see, but it leaves much to be desired when the goal is journalistic integrity. Real news is not about personal opinions. It demands an unbiased presentation of facts. It involves making phone calls, vetting comments and merging a community’s history with today’s reality to paint a complete picture.

Now in its 47th year, the Community Advocate is still doing the important work of reporting the news that impacts these communities and, although we have a very popular website, we are still about the newspaper.

The Community Advocate is going to continue this mission as long as we believe people have a passion for the news we deliver. We are grateful to every reader and every advertiser who has supported our mission. As long as people care deeply about their communities, the Community Advocate will be doing our part to support community and… to put it all down on paper.

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After a year of heartache and frustration, the pandemic is almost behind us.

Of the lessons learned, perhaps the most important is that our health care system doesn’t have to be stuck in the mud. During the pandemic, we were able to provide routine and chronic care to patients through telemedicine on a massive scale including more than 1 million telehealth visits over five months’ time at Mass General Brigham alone.

We believe progress in digital health is just the beginning.

Boston has some of the best trained doctors and the most innovative, research-infused treatments in the world. Patients shouldn’t have to live in the city or fight through congested traffic to access them.

We have a plan to build an ambulatory care center in Westborough so we can provide care closer to patients’ homes and at a lower cost. We are currently awaiting approval from the Department of Public Health through its Determination of Need (DON) process By delivering primary care, behavioral and mental health care, and specialist care along with imaging and day surgery, this ambulatory center will lower costs and increase access to care closer to home. These centers will provide lower-cost options and improve overall health outcomes.

It’s clear these services are needed and wanted. More than 40,000 Mass General Brigham patients live within 20 minutes of Westborough and 71 percent of residents in the area support a Mass General Brigham facility.

Despite complaints from competitors, our proposal provides a clear benefit to our patients, and a lower overall cost structure. And with lower reimbursement rates than care delivered in hospitals, doctors will be able to charge lower prices and serve more people.

The pandemic proved we can deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place, and at a lower cost. With the world’s greatest health care finally in our communities, we will be able to bring the best specialists, the best treatments, and the best services to anyone who needs them.

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A rainbow climbed into the sky in Northborough moments after a patch of thunderstorms rolled through the region.

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Sunrise in Northborough NORTHBOROUGH - Drone photography captured a broad scene as the sun rose over Northborough’s Trinity Church (foreground) and Downtown Northborough as a whole last month.

The sun brought with it record temperatures in the final days of June, bookending a month that began with a similar blast of heat.

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The storms brought welcome relief to the region after temperatures had soared in recent days.

They also brought high winds and heavy rains, though, causing minor flooding and knocking out power in some places.

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Northborough takes new step after buying Howard Street conservation land

By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor NORTHBOROUGH - The Town of Northborough took another step June 28 towards integrating a parcel of land near its border with Berlin into its network of publicly accessible open space.

By unanimous vote, the Board of Selectmen approved a conservation restriction under the supervision of the Sudbury Valley Trustees for 19 acres of open space at 615 Howard St. That happened as the Board and Open Space Committee expect to connect new trails on this Howard Street property with trails on neighboring state and local land in the Mount Pisgah area.

“It was an excellent candidate for conservation,” Open Space Committee Chair John Campbell said in a presentation to the Selectmen’s decision to acquire this property.

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that point, it initiated an approval process and eventually worked through the Open Space Committee, the Conservation Committee and the Board of Selectmen to approve a $390,000 purchase.

The price, Campbell said, was calculated based on the option to build a number of single family homes on this land.

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That’s where the Sudbury Valley Trustees came in.

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and contribute to the trail networks and passive recreation areas,” Campbell said.

Northborough now owns the land after all. As it funded its buy with Community Preservation Act dollars, though, it must now comply with stipulations in the CPA legislation.

Notably, the town needs to place a conservation restriction on the property, effectively limiting its use to certain activities that are in line with a broad

ees] provide an excellent service of being the overseer of the guidelines and the conservation restrictions and enforcement,” Campbell said.

The town-owned property at 615 Howard St. is actually a 19-acre “back-parcel” of a larger property on Howard Street. It’s located just a few hundred feet south of trail parking for Mt. Pisgah. Likewise, it occupies space just to the east of a cluster of townowned land running from the Berlin border to the backside of properties just over a half mile to the south. A large plot of land under the control of the state’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and nestled between Howard Street and Green Street also augments the existing green space.

A series of trails already criss-cross this patch of forest. Within that, the “Sparrow Trail” and the “Tyler Trail” specifically intersect just shy of where this new 615 Howard St. land begins. As such, town officials are eyeing expansion of those particular trails.

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Northborough opts not to buy land on Ball Street

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NORTHBOROUGH - The Town of Northborough passed on an opportunity June 28 to buy a small plot of land that is now slated for development.

The land is located on Ball Street and is in the process of being purchased for the purpose of building a single family home.

“While it’s a beautiful piece of property, it doesn’t abut any town-owned land,” Town Planner Kathy Joubert explained in a presentation to the Board of Selectmen. “So, therefore, it would be this really isolated piece of land that wouldn’t serve any purpose to the town for open space protection.”

As the property owner in this case has received an offer from a private buyer, the matter did come before the town due to a rarely used provision in state tax law.

Joubert explained that a cluster of exemptions and

Northborough elected officials recently agreed to waive the town’s right of first refusal on a piece of land on Ball Street where a single family home is now set to be built.

clauses in Chapter 60, Chapter 61a and Chapter 61b of broader state law allow individuals to earn a municipal tax break if they meet “certain requirements” for agricultural production and forestry coverage.

This property met those requirements and had been receiving a tax break.

With that, Joubert ex-

plained, landowners often feel less pressure to sell unused space that they might otherwise quickly offload.

The protection is only temporary, though, she reiterated.

Eventually, she explained “The owner reaches a point where they do want to sell the property.”

That’s what happened here.

As a sale moves forward, the town got a “right of first refusal” to buy it instead. That decision, specifically, fell to a coalition of municipal committees and commissions who, in this case, all passed on such a purchase.

That list included the Planning Board, the Open Space Committee, the Conservation Commission and the Recreation Commission. Each reviewing the land on Ball Street, those groups of officials weighed in before awaiting a final decision from the Board of Selectmen.

“It’s not something that regularly happens with the boards,” Joubert said of this unique process.

Selectmen unanimously agreed to decline their right of first refusal.

This Ball Street land is owned by Northborough resident Cynthia Fawcett. It stretches over 4.25 acres and is located near the Boylston Town Line as well as the nearby Tougas Family Farm.

Discussing the land, Joubert contrasted the situation with one the Selectmen also reviewed in their June 28 meeting.

Back in 2019, the town bought property on Howard Street with the expressed purpose of protecting it from development as a complex of private homes. Last month, Selectmen then approved a conservation restriction to formally knit that plot into its network of trails and assets for passive recreation.

On Howard Street, the land in question spanned over 19 acres, nearly five times the size of this land on Ball Street.

The Howard Street land also bordered hundreds of acres of contiguous owned open space in the Mount Pisgah area. The decision to buy, in that situation, was made with the understanding that Northborough was expanding the footprint of that conservation effort.

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Outdoor movies return to Westborough this summer

By Laura Hayes Contributing Writer

WESTBOROUGH - The Westborough Public Library recently announced that it is bringing back its “Screen on the Green” events on Thursday evenings this summer after a pause last year due to the pandemic.

The family-friendly outdoor movie lineup kicked off on July 8 at the Bay State Commons with a screening of Jumanji, Next Level.

The final movie of the summer will be screened at Lake Chauncy on July 29.

The start time for all Screen on the Green movies is 8:30 p.m.

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Treats will be available for purchase provided by Uhlman’s Ice Cream and the Sugar Shack. The library invites attendees to bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy a movie under the stars. In the case of inclement weather, individuals can check the library’s website at westboroughlib.org or call 508-366-3050 for more information.

S H R EW S B U RY - Fa c i n g malfunctioning meters, the Shrewsbury Water & Sewer Division has been unable to get ahold of about 100 customers, Superintendent Dan Rowley told the Board of Selectmen June 23.

He said there have been “multiple” attempts to contact them. Now, officials are discussing whether to shut off water service to these properties.

“One of our focuses is unaccounted for water,” Rowley said. “So, every meter that doesn’t work and is malfunctioning takes a toll on that.”

He said town staff has been working on replacing commercial and residential meters.

Department of Public Works Business Manager David Snowden said the meters are not reading. That could be due to issues with meters themselves or encoder receiver transmitters (ERTs).

Rowley said the Water & Sewer Division has reached a

Shrewsbury staff replacing malfunctioning water meters There’s been a significant effort to replace meters that age out or are not working.

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“crossroads.”

Snowden said more malfunctioning meters have been replaced in 2021 compared to both 2020 and 2019, beating the 2019 number by 100 meters.

“There’s been a significant effort to replace meters that age out or are not working,” Snowden said. “We really don’t want to shut off water, but we’re getting to the point where it may be the best course of action to address these other accounts.”

Snowden said staff planned to hand-deliver notices to customers in July and reach out to them through both Shrewsbury’s emergency notification system, CodeRED, and through town newsflashes.

As long as the customers have responded by Aug. 2,

Snowden said they will consider them as having to comply.

Those who don’t reply will be “staked” to be shut off with a blue stake, and their water would be shut off between Aug. 2 and 6.

Selectman Maurice DePalo asked that they not shut off water on a Friday, saying he heard of how people in other communities facing similar situations didn’t have the chance to respond before their meters were turned off.

Put another notice on their door before the water is shut off, he said.

“I know they’re being difficult by not accommodating you, but we have to demonstrate that we’ve made every effort,” DePalo said. “It is way above and beyond. I think it’s necessary.”

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Shrewsbury to study speeding on Maple Avenue

By Laura Hayes Contributing Writer SHREWSBURY - Speeding on Maple Avenue in Shrewsbury is being examined by the Board of Selectmen.

During the June 8 meeting, Selectman Maurice DePalo said he’s received complaints about speeding on the road, particularly in the crosswalks near Town Hall and near the post office.

Noting that Maple Avenue is a state road, DePalo asked the police and highway departments if anything could be done.

During the June 23 meeting, Chair John Samia said a speed observation was done in Feb. 2020, and it indicated that most of the drivers were driving within the 40 mph speed limit.

A speed study could be done again by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Shrewsbury Police Department.

Samia noted that Police Chief Kevin Anderson said that the speed limit could be reduced along parts of the road that are thickly settled or pass through business districts, such as the stretch beginning at the police station and stretching toward Northborough.

“I don’t think the intention of the original request was to change the speed limit all the way from the center down to Northborough. I thought that was a little beyond. Although, they may have reasons why they want to do that,” DePalo said.

There is currently a 25 mph zone near Shrewsbury’s post office. DePalo wondered if that could be extended down Maple Avenue toward Town Hall, noting there were several crosswalks within a stretch of a few hundred feet.

The aforementioned speed observation was done before the crosswalks were installed, said Town Manager Kevin Mizikar.

“I think there is reason for concern to have the crosswalks so close together where people have 40 mph speed limit and, all of a sudden, they come across three crosswalks,” DePalo said.

He asked if the traffic counters could be installed to see if the crosswalks had any impact on speed.

Selectman Beth Casavant said she’s received general concerns about traffic and speeding in town. Some of Shrewsbury’s roads are unmarked, and more people are walking around town

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since the pandemic, she said.

“If we’re hearing about it this much, I think it’s a pretty significant impact on enough people that it really does demand some more additional discussion and attention, if possible,” Casavant said.

Casavant suggested a selectmen workshop discussing traffic.

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Neighbors want to keep park behind old Beal school

By Laura Hayes Contributing Writer SHREWSBURY - One evening, Julie Ross was sitting on her front porch on Hascall Street, watching a group of girls and their fathers practice softball on the diamond behind the Beal Early Childhood Center.

She watched, sharing over the phone with the Community Advocate when one of the girls caught the ball or made it on base.

“It’s hysterical watching the girls,” Ross said. “They’re so much fun.”

Ross may soon have a new view from her porch.

For the past several years, a Shrewsbury committee has examined how to reuse the old Beal school. One developer has proposed constructing two mixed-use buildings.

In response, some neighbors have voiced concerns. Ross hopes that any building matches the neighborhood architecture.

Karin Holovnia, who grew up on Wesleyan Street, expressed

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concern about stormwater.

Several also want to preserve open space behind the school under town management. Holovnia offered to help raise funds if needed.

“Municipalities have an obligation,” she said. “They have an obligation to commercial and residential space, but it should not preclude green, open space.”

Neighbor Meagan Gormally takes her two kids on daily walks, often to the Beal park.

Her concern is that the town will sell the land and lose the opportunity of having open space in the neighborhood.

“Once it’s gone, it’s gone,”

Gormally said.

Developers propose ‘Beal Commons’ Developers Civico and Greenly Development are proposing “Beal Commons,” which would be a mix of apartments and businesses on the ground floor.

When the town got the green light to build the new Maj. Howard W. Beal School, it formed the Beal Reuse Committee to study the future of the old Beal.

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Town Meeting adopted rezoning of the town center in 2020.

During a Selectmen’s Roundtable June 29, the selectmen revisited the Beal reuse process, with Selectman Maurice DePalo, who was chair of the Beal Building Reuse Committee, saying that Beal was an integral part of the rezoning process.

“The intention always had been, from the start, is something to go there that would help invigorate the center,” DePalo said.

He said the committee came up with a set of recommendations of what should be included in the RFP (request for proposals) process. One of those recommendations was open space, DePalo said.

Civico and Greenly was the only developer to respond. The selectmen met with them in May and presented their conceptual plans.

After, DePalo said town officials spoke with industry experts who told them that more people would have applied if this was exclusively a housing project. On top of that, he explained, the site is too small for a large developer and too big for a small developer.

Shrewsbury is working with the developer on creating a more concrete concept, Chair John Samia said. The developer will be at a selectmen meeting this summer, and the public will be able to weigh in during a public hearing, he anticipated.

“We’re still in negotiations, for lack of a better word,” said Vice Chair John LeBeaux. “We haven’t awarded this project yet.”

Neighbors react Civico and Greenly’s draft plans presented to the selectmen in May showed a pocket park or dog park. Some neighbors wondered if they would be able to use it.

Ross noted that she’s specifically spoken with Mizikar and the town planner, who she said did a “good job sharing what they could.”

“I’m in the center of town,” Ross said. “My expectations are reasonable. I know there’s going to be stuff around me.”

In an email, Mizikar noted that the selectmen have suggested that the amount of green space should be increased in this particular proposal.

Beal conversation follows plan Open space and green space, in particular, have been a major topic of discussion before.

According to the 2020 Open Space and Recreation plan, when residents were surveyed, 79 percent said it was important to be able to access open space and recreation destinations in town by walking, biking or taking the bus.

Further, most said they supported efforts to require residential developments to include conservation and open space areas in their plans.

Neighbors especially emphasize the value of such facilities.

Gormally said, while she does take her kids to Shrewsbury’s sprawling Dean Park, it’s busy.

“What kills me is that really there’s only Dean Park, aside from playgrounds at schools, but you can’t always go to those during the day,” Gormally said.

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FROM PAGE 1 Northborough, Southborough, Westborough lead region in vaccination metrics Vaccination | from page 1

“We have had an incredible volunteer response from the medical community and the local medical corps,” Black said. “It was no small feat to get to these vaccination numbers.”

Black said that volunteers and paid public health staff worked hard in Northborough with neighboring communities to run the regional vaccination site that operated out of the DoubleTree Hotel in Westborough for three months this spring.

That effort, indeed, pulled together work and resources from Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, Ashland, Boylston, Holliston and Hopkinton to provide vaccines to area residents.

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reach, availability and convenience between different municipalities with regards to vaccinations. She noted that different municipalities were not part of regional collaborations like the one Northborough helped lead. Others did not have as immediate access to regional vaccination sites as Northborough and some of its neighbors did.

Earlier in the national vaccine rollout, the Health Department focused on outreach to seniors in Northborough, doing robocalls to teach people about vaccinations.

As that now closed Double Tree clinic opened, she said that administrative staff helped to register people every day, booking them at the DoubleTree or at local pharmacies based on patient convenience.

Black said that the team has now seen demand for vaccines decrease, as the Westborough site went from fully booking all 300 appointments in an afternoon to only having roughly 30 percent of appointments booked in the course of a week.

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Proposed warehouse won’t have negative traffic impact developer says

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A cul-de-sac currently sits near where developers hope to build a 396,375 square-foot warehouse near the Shrewsbury border.

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“The Town of Shrewsbury has very limited opportunities to directly influence the development in Boylston,” Mizikar said. “Further, we recognize economic development in neighboring towns is beneficial to the growing Central Mass economy and provides additional job opportunities for Shrewsbury residents.”

The plans were in front of the Boylston Planning Board June 15. During the meeting, Larry Beals of the engineering firm Beals Associates Inc. said the plan is being peer-reviewed while they hoped to resolve a couple “minor” issues over the next several weeks.

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In an email, Shrewsbury Town Manager Kevin Mizikar said the town has been following the project and attending Boylston Planning Board meetings.

He said that, while additional traffic is “always a concern,” Shrewsbury has been work-

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Westborough committee pushes for town-wide recognition of Indigenous People’s Day

By Susan Gonsalves Contributing Writer WESTBOROUGH - The Westborough Diversity and Inclusion Committee would like to see the Columbus Day holiday replaced with Indigenous People’s Day town-wide. This push follows a vote earlier this year by the School Committee, which opted to change the holiday on the school calendar.

Diversity and Inclusion Committee Member Shelby Marshall suggested at the committee’s June 17 meeting, that the matter be brought to the July 20 Select Board meeting in the form of a presentation. Marshall, who is on the Select Board, said it would be best if the Diversity and Inclusion Committee could demonstrate that outreach was done and community support was secured.

“Proceeding without community support creates a recipe for something other than success,” Marshall said.

She noted that a possible

first step would be a proclamation followed by a formal change next year.

Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair Carla Pressley said another option would be to put together an outreach plan between July and October to aim for a formal change.

The question is whether the change should be adopted this year or next year.

While understanding a “sense of urgency,” Marshall said the Select Board typically likes a lot of dialogue and “community conversation” around an issue before making a decision. She referred to an ongoing discussion about removing memorialization of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin from the town seal as an example of this. At this year’s May Town Meeting, voters approved an article to form a study board around that town seal matter.

Pressley said she’d like to see this change in October 2021. A subcommittee could work on speaking with local groups and garnering support

for the idea over the coming months, she said.

In an interview following the meeting, Pressley told the Community Advocate the committee is not interested in waiting for action to be taken at the state or federal level before proceeding locally.

The movement to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day has existed in earnest since the early 1990s, when Berkley,

California, became the first city to make the switch.

Since then, municipalities and groups across the country have made their own decisions on this issue.

Columbus Day was originally codified as a federal holiday in the 1930s as members of then stigmatized Roman Catholic, Italian American communities sought to recognize a fellow Catholic Italian, History.com noted in 2017.

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Planning Board associate member Richard Baker noted that FedEx’s tractor trailers deliver during off-peak traffic hours, but its delivery trucks come in and out throughout the day.

“The actual tractor trailer traffic — is that coming 24/7 or is it concentrated in certain time period days?” Baker asked.

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Westborough seeks committee members to review town seal

By Stuart Foster Contributing Writer WESTBOROUGH - The Town of Westborough is seeking members to join a committee for the purpose of reviewing the Westborough town seal and recommending whether or not the town should adopt a new one.

Now in the process of collecting letters of interest from candidates, Town Moderator John Arnold recently extended the deadline to submit a letter from Friday, June 30 to Friday, July 16.

“With the original announcement coming right as the school year was ending and people were getting into summer mode — along with a deadline right before the July 4 weekend — the response has been much less than I expected, given the discussions at the Select Board’s meetings last year that led to the article,” he wrote in an email to the Community Advocate explaining the decision.

As of June 29, the day before his original deadline, Arnold said he had just three letters of intent.

With recent emails and phone calls from prospective candidates, though, he noted that he was expecting more submissions at that time.

A number of individuals in town raised the issue of the town seal due to its depiction of the cotton gin, which was a major factor in the expansion of American slavery.

“My understanding is that a number of people approached the selectmen to mention that the depiction of the cotton gin on the town seal could be controversial or offensive to some,” Arnold said in a recent interview.

As some have opposed the town seal, a portion of other Westborough residents have rallied to keep it unchanged.

Selectmen added an article to the May 15 annual town meeting asking voters to determine whether the town should establish a commit-

tee to review the town seal.

The committee would then decide if it should be replaced and, in that case, recommend a procedure to create a new one. Town meeting approved the article.

The approved article named Arnold as the appointing authority for the committee, responsible for seeking letters of interest and appointing people with “interest and familiarity with history, design, and civic participation.”

“Right now, I am in the process of doing community outreach to essentially find people who are interested in serving on the committee,

and then I will speak with them, and then I will choose somewhere between the best seven and nine people to be on the committee,” Arnold said.

The current town seal originated as a result of a competition between Westborough High School students in 1967 to create a new seal for the town’s 250th anniversary. The town seal was then created by compiling the designs of four student drawings, including the Town Hall tower, an outline of Westborough, a “pie crust” edge around the seal and the cotton gin.

The cotton gin is relevant to Westborough because its inventor Eli Whitney was born in the town, although Arnold said that Whitney’s work on it was actually done in New Haven, Connecticut.

“It is always good, I think, to step back and reflect on the town’s history, but also where the town is now and where the town is going,” Arnold said. “The town’s seal should

be something that reflects the past while also projecting to the future.”

The town seal is used by Westborough Town Clerk Wendy Mickel to certify all town meeting actions and all official business of the town of Westborough.

“The town clerk is the keeper of the town seal and is the only person authorized to use it,” said Mickel.

People interested in serving on the committee should write a letter of interest to Arnold describing why they are interested in serving on it, a brief description of how a group should gather public input, how a committee can best arrive at a recommendation despite different opinions, as well as their background and familiarity with history, design and civic participation.

They can send the letters to the Westborough Town Hall, email them to moderator@ town.westborough.ma.us or fax them to 508-366-3099 by Friday, July 16.

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FROM PAGE 1 Students, volunteers collaborate on Westborough accessible trail project Trail | from page 1

students for what would be a hands-on learning experience.

“They were very interested in doing a lot of that hard work,” Martin explained.

Accommodating COVID-19 restrictions, Assabet students prefabricated 13-250 pound, 16foot boardwalk sections, which they then shipped to Westborough for volunteers to place at

paths in addition to a post-and-rope handrail running throughout the new trail. That will let people who cannot see the path ahead of them still follow the route and enjoy the outdoors.

Grant, volunteer help supports project Tackling this large-scale project, the WCLT WCLT volunteers lay heavy sections of prefabricated won $93,000 in boardwalk that were first assembled by students at grant funding Assabet Valley Regional High School. from the state’s Mass Trails program. “a little bit daunting,” though, That paid for materials and so WCLT reached out again, contractor labor to augment this time to the Assabet Valley over 1,000 hours in volunteer Regional High School in Marlefforts. borough.

Martin said the construction There, carpentry teacher aspects of this project were still Wayne Colson volunteered his

Gilmore Pond.

New trail augments Charm Bracelet The new Gilmore Pond trail will reestablish and strengthen a link in Westborough’s Charm Bracelet Trail System.

Reflecting on that, Martin said this project embodies the

essence of what is a more than 20-year-old effort.

“If people get out and experience and have a good time just walking around the pond, and that gets them to maybe explore some of the other trails, then the benefit of this goes beyond just the people that we’re explicitly doing it to help,” he said.

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The officer was working a traffic detail at the intersection when, just after 9:30 a.m., the officer was hit.

“The Officer did sustain injuries from being struck,” police noted in a press release.

Additional Officers from the Shrewsbury Police Department responded to the incident, as well as the Shrewsbury Fire Department and Worcester EMS. The injured officer was transported to UMass University Campus.

The officer was released from the hospital hours later, according to a second update from police at 4:45 p.m. The incident remains under investigation by the Shrewsbury Police Department.

Though taking place under different circumstances, this marked the third incident of a vehicle striking a police officer in Massachusetts in less than two weeks.

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COMMUNITY BUSINESS Moving out of pandemic era, MEDC celebrates successes, eyes future

By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH - Last year, the Marlborough Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) found reasons to celebrate, as well as ways to help local businesses. Now, its leaders are looking to maintain momentum and raise their city to new heights of business prominence.

Indeed, as COVID-19 shuttered many aspects of local life and severely hampered the global economy, Marlborough businesses filled 120,000 square feet of unoccupied space either through reloca-

tions or expansions in 2020.

That growth brought 400 new jobs into the community, according to the MEDC’s annual report.

Earlier this year, Marlborough also celebrated the news that BJs Wholesale Club would move its corporate headquarters to the city, bringing with it 800 jobs.

“Despite all of the challenges of last year, we were excited to see that there was some positive movement in

the business sector,” Executive Director Meredith Harris said.

Leading the charge through 2020 were companies like Cytiva and Sartorius, which both opened major facilities in the city.

Settling into Marlborough, those are new editions to a growing “cluster” of life science companies the MEDC is trying to build, Harris said.

“Those types of companies like to be near each other,” she added. “...So, we’re hopeful that it will continue to grow, and we’re just really trying to push ourselves to be able to react to it and welcome

Westborough Education Foundation awards two $500 Scholarships WESTBOROUGH - The Westborough Education Foundation (WEF) recently awarded its annual scholarships to Westborough High School graduates Andrew Leary and Leah Mintz.

Each worth $500, the scholarships recognize students who exhibit strong leadership qualities, are passionate about learning, and have demonstrated creativity and innovation.

Leary plans to attend the University of Michigan, majoring in Business Administration with a minor in Sports Management. Mintz plans on studying Speech-Language Pathology at Ithaca College.

During high school, Leary was involved in Best Buddies and various sports programs.

Through Best Buddies, he branched out to support stu-

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those types of folks with open arms.”

The MEDC has also spent time working with Marlborough’s small businesses during the pandemic.

They welcomed Word on the Street, Sugar Heaven and Jenny’s Place which all opened in the midst of last year’s challenging fiscal climate..

They also doled out $130,000 in grants to 33 small businesses to pay for PPE, reopening costs, retrofits, and other products like hand sanitizer. That program specifically aided local restaurants, which bore major costs when they had to develop outdoor dining rooms to accommodate pandemic restrictions and guidelines.

“There was a very difficult time where restaurants were struggling,” Harris said. “...

We were able to really [with] boots on the ground, get out there and help.”

Moving forward, as downtown hums back to life, the MEDC is turning some attention back to that life science cluster.

They’re seeking to promote Marlborough as a destination for similar companies, offering housing and entertainment amenities to attract and retain quality employees.

Likewise, they’re reviving in-person events, like their annual job fair and a downtown food truck festival, while staying the course on expanded multimedia communications efforts such as a video newsletter and a podcast.

The MEDC also expects to bring back commuter shuttle service in Marlborough later this year.

“We’re trying to think about when’s the right time [for that],” Harris said.

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COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Shrewsbury schools superintendent’s contract extended

By Laura Hayes Contributing Writer SHREWSBURY - Shrewsbury Public School Superintendent Joseph Sawyer will continue to lead the district through June 2026, according to adjustments to his contract approved by the School Committee June 23.

Additionally, his salary will now be $206,176.

Last year and before the COVID-19 pandemic, Sawyer recommended that his compensation be frozen, according to Chair Jon Wensky.

The School Committee adjusted Sawyer’s salary as if it had been increased last year, too, for a total increase of four percent, which Wensky said was consistent with action taken for other non-union represented employees whose compensation was frozen.

In addition to receiving Juneteenth as a paid holiday, Sawyer requested a market study to see

Superintendent Joseph Sawyer speaks during the June 23 School Committee meeting.

if his compensation needed to be further adjusted.

The School Committee also unanimously approved Sawyer’s evaluation.

“From my perspective, I think your leadership is the reason why we survived the year in a professional and successful manner,” said Wensky.

Overall, Sawyer received an “exemplary” rating from the School Committee during per-

formance reviews.

Vice Chair Sandra Fryc, who was School Committee Chair last year, presented a summary of the committee’s evaluation and Sawyer’s self-evaluation.

In the summary, Fryc said, his work “laid the groundwork for the district’s successful response to the pandemic.”

“I have worked with Dr. Sawyer for many years in various capacities and have always felt he was a strong and capable leader,” she said. “This past year, his work and his response to the COVID pandemic exceeded my opinion of him as an excellent public servant.”

He was rated on a number of topics, including his leadership in helping SPS during COVID-19, advancing equity and anti-racism, instructional leadership, management, family and community engagement and professional culture.

Fryc noted that Sawyer had to manage Shrewsbury’s other

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Palitsch pointed to the amount of information provided to the community, staff and families, which he said was at first perceived with “alarm.”

“I think the superintendent made the right call, that, in a crisis,” Palitsch said, “it’s best to provide the community with as much information as possible.”

Sawyer said he appreciated the School Committee’s comments, noting that they were also dealing with the same projects and the pandemic.

“It’s a team effort,” he said, calling the leadership team “extraordinary.” Sawyer also credited staff, who he said went above and beyond for the students.

He recognized families and thanked the community as well as his own family.

“It’s been a ride, and I wholeheartedly don’t want to take it again. I don’t want to get back in line. Let’s hope that it doesn’t happen,” Sawyer joked.

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goals in addition to the pandemic. She called it a “gamechanging year” with projects like the new Beal school project, redistricting and the fiscal year 2022 budget.

School Committee member Lynsey Heffernan remarked that parents said they were happy Sawyer was at the helm during the pandemic.

He became an expert in public health and provided information in a way people could understand, added committee member Dale Magee.

“Difficult times highlight effective leaders. It is a challenge to imagine a more difficult time for a K-12 public school district,” said School Committee member Jason Palitsch, referring to the pandemic, budget, redistricting and the debate if Shrewsbury should keep its “Colonials” mascot.

He said he was impressed with Sawyer’s calmness and effective communication.

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Parents weigh in on future of Southborough extended day care

By Laura Hayes Contributing Writer SOUTHBOROUGH - What type of before and after-school and extended day services are Southborough parents looking for?

That was the main question of a listening session conducted by Southborough Public Schools on June 28.

The listening session was scheduled after Southborough parents learned that the district planned to recommend a new provider to the School Committee.

Currently, Southborough students are served by the private nonprofit Southborough Extended Day Program (SEDP), which was founded by parents about 35 years ago, according to President Katie Karmelek.

Initial RFP process frustrates parents SEDP was one of four providers who submitted proposals for a request for proposals (RFP), and the School Commit-

Parents talk during a listening session June 28.

tee was scheduled to vote June 23, according to an email from Superintendent Gregory Martineau shared to social media.

That meeting was canceled.

Martineau told the Community Advocate school districts are required to follow a procurement process when a contract has ended. SEDP’s will end in August.

When Southborough residents learned about the potential change, a petition was started to “save” SEDP. “To switch to something else without parents actually saying, let’s switch or parents knowing why there’s a need to switch, without us telling you there’s a problem, is something

that, in this particular process, bothered me significantly,” said resident Leonard Sutton during the listening session.

Martineau told the Community Advocate all of the bids were

rejected.

“We did have criteria, but we think one misstep was not hearing directly from families who actually use these services,” said Martineau during the listening session.

The school gives SEDP the space for free, and tuition covers staff salaries and operations, said Karmelek.

She said other organizations wanted to be able to serve Southborough.

“The town was essentially approached [and told] that ‘You should be following these procurement processes,’” Karmelek said.

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ery three years. This is Karmelek’s second since she’s been involved. The difference this year is that SEDP had previously been either unopposed or unanimously selected, Karmelek said.

“I do think we could have invested in a snazzier RFP, to say the least,” Karmelek said.

Karmelek said people often don’t think about sending their child to daycare as a procurement process and want to do trial days and connect with staff.

This is an ongoing process, she said, adding that SEDP is “working closely” with the district.

New RFP process to move forward The RFP process will now be starting over. The district has undertaken several efforts to get community feedback, including a survey and the listening session.

Kathryn Nordstrom works at home over 40 hours a week, but her schedule means that she can’t pick up her child from

school at 2:30 p.m.

“Extended day to me, it’s friends and fun that I can’t provide to her,” said Nordstrom.

Some parents advocated for a program that had a sense of community and not an extension of school. One parent shared how SEDP organized a scavenger hunt for the kids during the pandemic.

We’re still in a pandemic, said parent John Reed. He asked if the law would allow SEDP’s contract to continue for a year.

“Why not just simply pause the process, continue the contract for a year, and restart this at the appropriate time heading into next year,” Reed said.

Martineau said the survey results and the feedback from the approximately 20 community members who spoke during the listening session will help the district develop its RFP. He told the Community Advocate that the goal is to launch the procurement process in a few weeks and have a contract awarded for this school year.

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COMMUNITY SPORTS AMSA, Algonquin claim state titles

By Chris Wilson Contributing Writer

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Algonquin’s rugby squad took home the Division II State Championship with a win over Cambridge Rindge and Latin.

That game kicked off on June 30 but was postponed due to lightning. It resumed July 1 with Algonquin already leading by a score of 10-7.

Rumbling to the victory, Algonquin celebrated its state championship as the final step in an undefeated season.

Elsewhere, the AMSA’s Girls Tennis team defeated Man-

chester Essex to win a historic Division III State title. Not only was this the first such title for the Girls Tennis program, it was also the first state championship in school history.

The Shrewsbury’s Girls Tennis squad and Westborough’s Boys Tennis team also competed in State Championships.

Shrewsbury dropped its Division I championship match-

up to Acton-Boxborough in a 5-0 sweep.

Westborough mustered a win in one of its sets but also lost, in its case by a score of 5-1.

“This team is special and they have a lot of good years ahead of them,” Westborough High School Athletic Director Johanna DiCarlo tweeted after that game.

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Shrewsbury rowing star competes in World Championships

By Kevin Stone Contributing Writer SHREWSBURY - Shrewsbury High School alumnus Collin Hay (2018) earned entry to the U23 World Rowing Championships on June 15 and is now representing both Shrewsbury and his country in the championships in Racice, Czech Republic, from July 7-11.

Hay and his pair partner competed against three other crews at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, winning with the time of 6:50.51 on the 2000m course.

It’s not often you hear about such success at the local level in this particular sport, so how did Hay get started?

“I started rowing in the fall of 2014 with the Shrewsbury High School crew team,” he recently explained via email.

“Simply put, I started because I thought I’d get bored in the fall and a neighbor at the time happened to be a former captain of the team.”

Hay trains at the Quinsigam-

ond Rowing Club. As he has worked, Hay has been on a mission to represent his country for quite a while now.

“I think the quest really began when I finished my first season of rowing,” he said. “I knew that’s all I wanted to do and I knew I wanted to be good at it. “It started off as daydreaming, where I’d picture myself winning crazy international races I knew I’d never have a shot in.”

“It was a slow evolution from a dream to an actual goal as I found myself training more, getting more race experience, getting fitter, and rowing better,” he continued. “Things really clicked after I hopped into some smaller boats during college.”

“I started to realize they were moving pretty fast and we were definitely exceeding expectations,” Hay said. “That’s when I first decided I’d give the national team trials a swing.”

Of course, the dream started in Shrewsbury, so does Hay still use any lessons he learned while wearing the blue and gold?

Shrewsbury’s Collin Hay is rowing in the U23 World Rowing Championships in the Czech Republic.

“You can always choose your frame of reference,” he said. “We typically raced local teams and created this bubble of standards that didn’t necessarily apply everywhere else.”

“There’s sayings like ‘big fish in a little pond’ or ‘small fish in a big pond’ and, in my experience, it’s always better to make yourself the small fish in the big pond, even if you can’t

be in the big pond physically,” Hay explained. “If I found myself doing well locally, it was time to start thinking how I stacked up nationwide.”

“Even now, I find myself comparing my fitness and form to some of the greatest of all time,” he continued. “And even though there’s some serious disparity in skill and speed from myself and the greats, it breaks

barriers of what I think ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’ possible.”

With the Olympics set to begin soon, it’s hard not to wonder if Hay will one day be rowing at that level. The thought has crossed his mind.

“I hope to do my community proud,” he said. “I feel an enormous amount of support from home and couldn’t do this without all the generosity from others. For that, I feel the need to show their kindness has made a difference and has allowed me to pursue this dream.”

“As for the Olympics, it’s definitely on my radar,” he explained. “Due to the participant volume constraints of the Olympics, not every boat is an Olympic class boat, so I’d likely switch to the Olympic-class lightweight men’s double sculls after this year’s world championships.”

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Wednesday, June 16 11:32 p.m. Rockpoint/Cordaville Rds. Motor vehicle stop.

Thursday, June 17 8:44 a.m. Main St./Chestnut Hill Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

3:16 p.m. Cordaville Rd. Larceny/forgery/ fraud.

4:43 p.m. Middle Rd. Past Disturbance.

7:05 p.m. Woodland/Woodbury Rds. Motor vehicle stop.

7:18 p.m. Turnpike/Breakneck Rds. Road hazard.

9:13 p.m. General Henry Knox Rd. Suspicious activity.

Friday, June 18

2:09 p.m. Turnpike Rd. Larceny.

6:42 p.m. Old Hill Rd./Walnut Dr. Motor vehicle stop.

7:20 p.m. Framingham Rd./East Main St. Motor vehicle stop.

9:07 p.m. Turnpike Rd. MVA property damage only.

11:13 p.m. Turnpike Rd. Parking complaint.

Saturday, June 19 8:00 a.m. Wyndemere Dr. Animal complaint.

1:11 p.m. Turnpike/Deerfoot Rds. MVA property damage only.

6:54 p.m. Ted Ln. Animal control.

9:36 p.m. Orchard Rd. Noise investigation.

Sunday, June 20 2:06 a.m. Breakneck Hill/Mt Vickery Rds. Motor vehicle stop.

12:56 p.m. Edgewood Rd. Animal complaint.

1:41 p.m. Boston Rd./Central St. MVA property damage only.

7:59 p.m. Turnpike Rd./Central St. MVA property damage only.

Monday, June 21 12:15 a.m. Turnpike Rd./Winter St. Motor vehicle stop.

4:44 p.m. Cordaville Rd. MVA property damage only.

6:20 p.m. Flagg Rd./Red Gate Ln. Tree/limb.

11:44 p.m. Central St. Motor vehicle stop.

11:52 p.m. Boston Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

Tuesday, June 22 1:26 a.m. Turnpike Rd./Brook Ln. Motor vehicle stop.

10:23 a.m. Cordaville Rd. Animal complaint.

10:28 a.m. Deerfoot Rd. Larceny/forgery/ fraud.

Wednesday, June 23 1:29 a.m. Boston Rd./Firmin Ave. Tree/limb down in roadway.

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8:34 p.m. Framingham Rd./East Main St. Motor vehicle stop.

9:25 p.m. Framingham/Boston Rds. Motor vehicle stop.

9:43 p.m. Main St. Motor vehicle stop.

10:06 p.m. Turnpike/Crystal Pond Rds. Motor vehicle stop.

Thursday, June 24 10:55 a.m. Northboro Rd. Disturbance.

1:42 p.m. Lynbrook Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

4:24 p.m. Turnpike Rd. MVA property damage only.

9:07 p.m. Southville Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

Friday, June 25 10:01 a.m. Cordaville Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

11:15 a.m. Southville Rd. Trespassing notice.

7:48 p.m. Turnpike/Crystal Pond Rds. Animal complaint.

9:14 p.m. Turnpike Rd. MVA property damage only.

11:41 p.m. Southville Rd./River St. Motor vehicle stop.

Saturday, June 26 5:04 a.m. Breakneck Hill Rd./Sunrise Dr. Wire down in roadway.

10:43 a.m. Marlboro Rd. Animal complaint.

11:19 a.m. Walnut Dr. Animal complaint.

6:34 p.m. Oak Hill Rd./Walnut Dr. Motor vehicle stop.

Sunday, June 27 8:44 a.m. Woodland Rd./Ted Ln. Motor vehicle stop.

9:32 a.m. Oak Hill Rd./Hilltop Dr. Motor vehicle stop.

11:52 a.m. Woodland Rd./Ted Ln. Motor vehicle stop.

12:29 p.m. Turnpike/Parkerville Rds. MVA property damage only.

11:55 p.m. William Colleary Ln./White Bagley Rd. Motor vehicle stop.

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Wednesday, June 23 7:32 a.m. Ridge Rd. Accident: P.I. 8:31 a.m. Davis St./Old Colonial Dr. Dog complaint.

11:14 a.m. Main St. Illegal dumping.

2:58 p.m. Deacon St. Scams.

Thursday, June 24 1:26 a.m. East Main St. Disturbance.

6:28 a.m. Southwest Cutoff. Disturbance.

12:17 p.m. Shops Way. Disturbance.

4:16 p.m. Church St. Animal calls.

6:40 p.m. Cedar Hill Rd. Animal calls.

Friday, June 25 10:15 a.m. West Main St. Fraud.

11:01 a.m. Arrested, Jose Manuel Santa, 39, of 9 Autumn St., Lynn, for utter false check.

11:32 a.m. Arrested, Derrick Jamal Malone, 25, of 3264 River Ln., Atlanta, Ga., for intimidate witness/juror/police/court official, accessory before the fact.

2:02 p.m. West Main St. Dog complaint.

3:22 p.m. Autumn Ln. Scams.

Saturday, June 26 5:52 p.m. Emerson Rd. Disturbance.

9:53 p.m. Jethro Peters Ln. Disturbance.

10:01 p.m. Summer St. Disturbance.

11:46 p.m. Summer St. Disturbance.

Sunday, June 27 6:27 a.m. Summer St. Disturbance.

9:52 a.m. Lincoln St. Vandalism.

8:16 p.m. Reservoir St. Disturbance.

Monday, June 28 11:34 a.m. Shops Way. Larceny.

1:35 p.m. Northgate Rd. Scams.

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Tuesday, June 29 3:57 a.m. Green St. Disturbance.

8:16 a.m. Crawford St. Animal calls.

12:49 p.m. Davis St./Southwest Cutoff. Dog complaint.

4:01 p.m. Beeman Rd. Accident: P.D.

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Tuesday, June 22 3:45 a.m. Arrested, Rosa Isela Patino, 29, of 29 Cross St., Marlborough, on warrant, and Luis Armando Acevedo, 27, of 20 Helen Dr., Marlborough, for possess Class B drug.

9:46 a.m. Myrtle St. Vandalism.

1:34 p.m. Milk St. Annoying/harassing phone calls.

Wednesday, June 23 5:36 a.m. Oak St. Disturbance (general).

8:39 p.m. W Main St. Threats made.

10:32 p.m. Flanders Rd. Accident property damage.

Thursday, June 24 1:36 a.m. Arrested, Danny Choun, 30, of 9 Lewis St., Worcester, on warrant.

Friday, June 25 10:28 a.m. W Main St. Vandalism.

10:53 a.m. Milk/Fisher Sts. Road/tree.

7:34 p.m. Turnpike Rd. Accident property damage.

Saturday, June 26 1:30 p.m. E Main St. Accident – hit & run.

7:16 p.m. E Main St. Disturbance (general).

Sunday, June 27 12:14 a.m. Turnpike Rd. Disturbance (general).

2:51 p.m. Friberg Pkwy./Connector Rd. Road/tree.

Monday, June 28 10:15 a.m. Water St. Vandalism.

12:39 p.m. Friberg Pkwy. Assault.

9:59 p.m. Turnpike Rd. Accident property damage.

Tuesday, June 29 1:34 p.m. Connector Rd. Disturbance (general).

4:24 p.m. Connector Rd. Larceny.

7:45 p.m. Turnpike Rd. Disturbance (general).

Wednesday, June 30 8:20 a.m. Robin Ln. Vandalism.

6:16 p.m. Charles/Cross Sts. Accident property damage.

Thursday, July 1 9:16 a.m. E Main St. Larceny.

3:29 p.m. Homestead Blvd. Disturbance (general).

5:09 p.m. Arch St. Vandalism.

8:22 p.m. Oak St. Disturbance (general).

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COMMUNITY OBITUARIES The Community Advocate will post obituaries online (and in print, as space allows) at no charge as a courtesy to our readers. Please send information (and a picture if desired) to tracy@communityadvocate.com.

Here is a complete list of individual obituaries posted on the Community Advocate website (www.communityadvocate.com).

DEATHS Anthony, Joann of Northborough D’Errico, Matthew of Southborough Flanigan Jr., Gregory formerly of Marlborough Gay, Lois of Hudson Halterman, David of Uxbridge, owner of former Carpet Lovers of Westborough Marini, Anne formerly of Hudson Morin, Doreen formerly of Marlborough Mullen, Grace of North Grafton Reddington III, Walter of Northborough Sacco Sr., Robert of Hudson Seminerio, Antoinette of Grafton Taylor, Keith formerly of Westborough Weaver, Eileen of Marlborough

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Keith Taylor, 52 WESTBOROUGH - Keith Russell Taylor, “Trotter,” “Fish,” a loving husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and friend passed away unexpectedly on June 22, 2021, at the age of 52.

Keith is survived by his children, Brady B. Taylor and Natalie J. Taylor; wife, Christine Taylor; parents, Virgina A. Taylor and James R. Taylor; siblings, Brooke L. Innocenti (Jason) and Kim L. Forgione (Robert); nephew, Nathan J. Innocenti; nieces, Carleigh T. Sparks, Taylor L. Innocenti, and Nessa L. Innocenti; and great-nieces, Kenna J. Sparks and Kaisley A. Sparks.

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Walter F. Reddington III NORTHBOROUGH - Walter F. Reddington III passed away on June 19, 2021 after a short battle with cancer. Walter was born in Weymouth, a son to the late Walter and Anna Reddington Jr. Walter was preceded in death by his wife, Adele Red-

dington, and is survived by two sons, Andrew Reddington of Middleberg, Fla. and Jozef Reddington and his wife Keriann of Merrimac; his two grandchildren, Reagan Emerie and Ridge Everett of Merrimac; two sisters, Kim Curtin and sister Beth Reddington; and nine nieces and nephews.

Hays Funeral Home of Northborough assisted with arrangements.

Joann T. Anthony, 78 NORTHBOROUGH/NAPLES, FLA. - Joann T. (Frazetti) Anthony, 78, passed away at her home in Northborough on June 24, 2021 after a period of declining health. Joann was born and raised in Needham, the daughter of Carmelo and Ellen (Olson) Frazetti.

In addition to her husband, George, Joann is survived by her four daughters, Elizabeth Bibeau and her husband Mark of Chandler, Texas, Christine D. Anthony and her husband Eric Richman of Westborough, Catherine Adair and her husband Ronald of Ashburnham, and Mary-Joan Sheerin and her husband William of Worcester.

Joann also leaves her nine beloved grandchildren, Raphael

and Eli Richman; Carmella, George, Francis, Kateri and Ava Adair; Cole and William Sheerin, as well as her sister, Mary-Ellen Conley and her husband Edward; nephews Edward and Stephen Conley and niece Jeanne-Ellen Lund.

In addition to cousins, greatnephews and nieces and both a great-great-niece and nephew.

Hays Funeral Home of Northborough assisted with arrangements.

Grayce H. Mullen, 80 NORTH GRAFTON - Grayce H. (Bulger) Mullen, 80, of North Grafton, and formerly of Westborough, passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of June 21, 2021 at Beaumont of Northbridge, where she had been residing for the past three months. She was the daughter of the late Francis P. Bulger and Grayce H. (Hayden) O’Neill, and wife of the late Eugene “Gene” P. Mullen.

Grayce is survived by her three kids, Kevin Arnold (Jeannie) of New Hampshire, Lori Hollander (Jed) of Washington, and Todd Arnold of Flori-

da; grandchildren Anna, Jesse, and Michael, sister, Connie Rebakas Fisher of Millbury; and several nieces and nephews.

She was also predeceased by three sisters, Beverly Bulger, Elaine Bulger, and Mary Jane Foley, and her brother, Jon Bulger.

Roney Funeral Home of North Grafton assisted with arrangements.

David L. Halterman, 72 UXBRIDGE - David L. Halterman, 72, passed away on June 28, 2021 at the Lydia Taft House in Uxbridge, after a period of declining health. He was predeceased by his wife, Maryann (Blais) Halterman in 2017. He is survived by three children, Ronald Halterman of Boston, David Halterman of Uxbridge, and Helena Halterman also of Boston; two brothers, Ronald Halterman and his wife Linda of Uxbridge and Glenn Halterman of Worcester; two stepchildren, Jim Blais and Sarah Blais, as well as several nieces, nephews, and friends.

Tancrell-Jackman Funeral Home of Uxbridge assisted with arrangements.

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