Northborough American Legion Post 234 Collects Items to send to Troops

The Northborough American Legion Post 234 has started to collect articles and gifts to send to our soldiers overseas. We hope to make this our best year ever in supporting our men and women  fighting  for our Freedom! Monies that are donated will go to cover postage. All articles must be at the Post by [...]

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Scouting for Food Drive 11/13

Girl and Boy Scout troops of Northboro will together collect food for the Northborough Food Pantry as part of the “The Scouting For Food” drive that will be held on Saturday, November 13th.  Girl and Cub Scouts will distribute collection bags on Saturday, November 6th.

Residents are asked to please place food donations  in a bag [...]

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Assabet Valley Mastersingers Concert 11/13

Assabet Valley Mastersingers will introduce this concert season with A Baroque Festival at 8 PM on Saturday, November 13th in Saint Mary’s Church, 640 Main Street at Summer Street, Shrewsbury.  Artistic Director Robert Eaton will lead the chorus and orchestra in a program featuring the magnificent Te Deum in D by [...]

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Route 20 Northborough to be Named “John Davis Highway”

An official celebration and naming ceremony will take place Wednesday, October 27, 2010, Noon, Rain or Shine at the  American Legion, 402 West Main Street, for more information call 978-365-1955.

The bill was designed, in honor of John Davis, a native of the Town of Northborough, who served as governor of the commonwealth from [...]

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Northborough Horse & Hound 4-H Club Food Pantry Drive 10/23

The Northborough Horse & Hound 4-H Club held it’s first meeting of the new year by welcoming several new members to the club.  Many of these newcomers learned about the 4-H club at Applefest last month. The 4-Hs in 4-H stand for “Head, Heart, Health and Hands.”  Members from both the Northborough 4-H Horse and [...]

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2nd Annual Northborough Helping Hands Coat Drive

Northborough Helping Hands is once again collecting New or Gently used Winter Coats, Snowpants & Boots (Children’s sizes infant to Teens) for 70+ local families.   We do not need adult coats unless they would be suitable for a teenager.

Town drop off Locations (there will be a drop box at the following locations):

Northborough Town [...]

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Watch out Bikes and Walkers (10/5 Especially)!

Zeh Elementary School will be joining schools from around the world to celebrate International Walk and Bike to School Day in October, as part of the Massachusetts Safe Routes to School program.

Students from Zeh School will be walking or biking to school on Tuesday, October 5th, along with parents, and Zeh School’s principal, Mrs. Susan [...]

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Calling All Culture!

by Alexandra M

The Northborough Cultural Council (NCC) is currently accepting grant applications until October 15, 2010. The Council, which is volunteer-run, provides funding for various town-wide cultural programs, whose subjects include (but are not limited to) music, theater, and history.

The goal of Cultural Council is to promote art and humanities programs to benefit the local [...]

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ARHS Robotics Team Featured at Applefest

ARHS Principal Mead with Team 1100 (Photo Courtesy of Carol Jones)

The Algonquin Regional High School Robotics Team 1100 (T-Hawks) participate in this year’s Applefest parade held on September 11, 2010.  The parade featured three FIRST Robotics Challenge robots from previous years, as well as a team built t-shirt cannon-robot and [...]

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Friends of the Northboro Dog Park

Friends of the Northboro Dog Park (aka FOTNDP or PWPWP) group wish to have an off leash dog park created in Northborough, their hope is a public area would be designated and they would support the park by raising funds to provide the fencing and upkeep.

Those  interested in learning more about the Friends of the [...]

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