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April 24, 2011 - April 30, 2011

SOUTHBOROUGH’S

21st ANNUAL

EARTH DAY CLEAN UP

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011

8:30 AM to 11:30 AM

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

To adopt a favorite part of town, please call Southborough’s Department of Public Works at 485-1210 or visit their location next to the Transfer Station that morning to sign up and pick up trash bags.  Coffee and pastries will be served at 8:00 AM.  T-shirts will be distributed on a first come basis.

PLEASE BRING WORK GLOVES

Stop by the Town Gazebo after the clean up for

pizza, soda and ice cream beginning at 11:30 AM.

A rain date has been set for Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Sponsored by:

The Rotary Club of Southborough, The Department of Public Works,

Southborough Open Land Foundation, NSTAR, Polar Beverages,

Domino’s Pizza of Southborough, Red Barn Coffee Roasters,

Theracopia Massage Therapy and Wellness Center,

Mauro’s Market and Al Cass, Inc.

Sunday, May 1^st

COME WATCH

GIRLS RUGBY ROUND ROBIN!

@ Algonquin RHS

Practice Football Field

79 Bartlett St. Northborough, MA

11am: Algonquin A V. Portland A U19

12:15 Lincoln-Sudbury A v. Portland B

1:30 Algonquin B v. Lincoln-Sudbury

The Southborough Community Preservation Committee is holding an open forum on Thursday, May 12, 2011,

  7PM in Cordaville Hall, 9 Cordaville Road to review the Community Preservation Act and the process for applications for CPA Funds. The deadline for new applications is June 13, 2011.

Sports and Recreation

ARHS Sports Photos by Chris Wraight www.thawkspix.com

The Town Moderator is seeking town residents to sit on the newly formed Town Manager Study Committee. 

This committee will recommend town manager legislation and will draft special municipal legislation whose purpose shall be to enact a Town Manager form of government with an elected Board of Selectmen, consisting of five persons.  This committee will present the proposed legislation for consideration by the Annual Town Meeting of 2012, or such earlier Special Town Meeting as may arise. 

Experience in town government is preferred.  Please submit a resume and letter of interest to the Selectmen’s Office, 17 Common St,  Southborough, MA  01772 or e-mail to personnel@southboroughma.com by Friday May 6, 2011. 

Furnishing Options has a goal of securing enough furniture for five entire rooms, enough to fill a moving container. That container will be located at the Green Thumb Garden Center at 187 Turnpike Rd (Rt. 9) on April 30 from 8:00am-noon.

People looking to donate qualified furniture on April 30 should contact Elizabeth Hanson at: 508-864-1012 to arrange for that donation to be accepted.

Framingham REI — Hopkinton Green Expo

·         Date: 4/30/2011

·         Event Location: Hopkinton High School

·         Event Fee: Free

·         Time: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (EDT)

·         Leader: Hopkinton PTA

Description: Exhibits, Arts and Crafts for Kids, Music, Food. Learn about sustainable and green living. Stop by the REI table to enter the free drawing! Free!

Sports and Recreation

ARHS Sports Photos by Chris Wraight www.thawkspix.com

SOUTHBOROUGH’S

21st ANNUAL

EARTH DAY CLEAN UP

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011

8:30 AM to 11:30 AM

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

To adopt a favorite part of town, please call Southborough’s Department of Public Works at 485-1210 or visit their location next to the Transfer Station that morning to sign up and pick up trash bags.  Coffee and pastries will be served at 8:00 AM.  T-shirts will be distributed on a first come basis.

PLEASE BRING WORK GLOVES

Stop by the Town Gazebo after the clean up for

pizza, soda and ice cream beginning at 11:30 AM.

A rain date has been set for Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Sponsored by:

The Rotary Club of Southborough, The Department of Public Works,

Southborough Open Land Foundation, NSTAR, Polar Beverages,

Domino’s Pizza of Southborough, Red Barn Coffee Roasters,

Theracopia Massage Therapy and Wellness Center,

Mauro’s Market and Al Cass, Inc.

SOUTHBOROUGH FIRE DEPARTMENT DAILY LOG

Tuesday 4/19/1 

00:51 EMS CALL SUMMIT RD 

    A28  FF STRONG       FF NEAL

    C30  FF PIERCE

03:33 ASSSIT POLICE OR OTHER AGENCY MIDDLE RD 

    C30  LT DANO

04:15 CO DETECTOR ACTIVATION, NO CO BLUEBERRY LN 

    A28  FF PIERCE       FF NEAL

    E22  LT DANO         FF STRON 

09:00 COMMERCIAL INSPECTION PINE HILL DR 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

12:00 PLAN REVIEW - SMOKE DETECTOR NICHOLS ST 

    C3   CAPT MAURO

16:00 PROPANE INSPECTION DARLENE DR 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

17:13 ANIMAL RESCUE WARD RD 

    C30  LT SADOWSKI

18:15 EMS CALL HIGHLAND ST 

    A28  FF KANE         FF WILLS

    C30  LT PELTIER

Wednesday 4/20/11

08:05 ALARM SYSTEM DUE TO MALFUNCTIO HIGHLAND ST 

    E22  FF SHANAHAN

    T21  LT PELTIER      FF FRANKS       FF MARTINS

08:32 ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING BEAVER ST  MIL

    C20  CHIEF MAUR

10:00 PLAN REVIEW - SMOKE DETECTOR OLD HARRY RD 

    C3   CAPT MAURO

13:00 TRAINING - FIRE LYNBROOK RD 

    A28  FF SHANAHAN     FF MARTINS

    C27  CAPT MAURO

    C30  LT PELTIER

    E23  FF TOMMANEY

    T21  FF FRANKS

19:33 EMS CALL NEWTON ST 

    A28  FF SHANAHAN     FF MARTINS

    C30  LT PELTIER

21:51 EMS CALL EAST MAIN ST 

    A28  FF SHANAHAN     FF MARTINS

    C30  LT PELTIER

23:16 EMS CALL MASS PIKE EAST    

    A28  FF SHANAHAN     FF MARTINS

    C30  LT PELTIER

Thursday 4/21/11

09:18 ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING COMMON ST 

    C20  CHIEF MAURO

    C27  CAPT MAURO

11:30 SITE PLAN REVIEW WILLOW ST 

    C3   CAPT MAUR 

13:19 EMS CALL ACRE BRIDGE RD and 911 FIELD 

    A28  FF RICE         FF MARTINS

    C30  FF ROACH

13:30 PROPANE INSPECTION EAST MAIN ST 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

14:30 SMOKE DETECTOR NEW CONSTRUCT OAK HILL RD 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

16:00 PROPANE INSPECTION OLD HARRY RD 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

21:28 EMS CALL RED GATE LN 

    A28  FF RICE         FF AMENDOLA

    C30  FF ROACH

Friday 4/22/11

09:43 SMOKE SCARE, ODOR OF SMOKE VALLEY RD 

    E22  LT PELTIER      FF GOODSPEED    FF FRANKS

14:43 EMS CALL NEWTON ST 

    A28  FF GOODSPEED    FF MARTINS

    C30  FF FRANKS

16:32 ALARM SYSTEM DUE TO MALFUNCTIO ST MARTIN DR 

    E22  FF GOODSPEED

    T21  LT PELTIER      FF SHANAHAN     FF FRANKS       FF MARTINS

21:21 CITIZEN COMPLAINT SOUTHVILLE RD 

    C20  CHIEF MAURO

    C30  LT PELTIER      FF FRANKS

Saturday 4/23/1 

05:55 EMS CALL SOUTHVILLE RD 

    A28  FF GOODSPEED    FF MARTINS

    C30  FF FRANKS

18:45 POWER LINE DOWN OAK HILL RD 

    E22  CAPT HUBLEY     FF ASPESI       FF NAVAROLI

Sunday 4/24/11

23:20 EMS CALL BOSTON RD 

    A28  FF NEAL         FF PIERCE

    C30  LT DANO

Monday 4/25/11

10:15 FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION ST MARTIN DR 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

11:30 PLAN REVIEW - SMOKE DETECTOR BIGELOW RD 

    C3   CAPT MAURO

14:00 COMMERCIAL INSPECTION ST MARTIN DR 

    C27  CAPT MAURO

19:38 SMOKE SCARE, ODOR OF SMOKE CENTRAL ST 

    E22  CAPT HUBLEY     FF KANE         FF WILLS

22:02 EMS CALL PARKERVILLE RD 

    A28  FF ASPESI       FF NAVAROLI

    C30  FF WILLS

Over 5,100 Sites Join DEA Nationwide Effort
to Take-Back Prescription Drugs on April 30th

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday, April 30th. More than 5,100 sites nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse and theft. This is hundreds more sites than were established for the event last fall. The free event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time.

Government, community, public health and law enforcement partners at these sites will be working together to collect expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs that are potentially dangerous if left in the family’s medicine cabinet.

Last September, Americans turned in over 242,000 pounds—121 tons—of prescription drugs at nearly 4,100 sites operated by more than 3,000 of the DEA’s state and local law enforcement partners. Also last fall, Congress passed the Safe and Secure Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow users of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to entities authorized by the Attorney General to accept them. The Act also allows the Attorney General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose of their residents’ controlled substances in certain instances. DEA is presently drafting regulations to implement the Act.

Collection sites in every local community can be found by going to www.dea.gov and clicking on the “Got Drugs?” banner at the top of the home page, which connects to a database that citizens can search by zip code, city or county. This site is continuously updated with new take-back locations. In addition, interested media can now go to: www.nationaltakebackday.com to download a public service announcement about the initiative.

This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high—more Americans currently abuse prescription drugs than the number of those using cocaine, hallucinogens, and heroin combined, according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Studies show that individuals that abuse prescription drugs often obtained them from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, many Americans do not know how to properly dispose of their unused medicine, often flushing them down the toilet or throwing them away – both potential safety and health hazards.

“The overwhelming public response to DEA's first nationwide Take-Back event last fall not only rid homes of potentially harmful prescription drugs, but was an unprecedented opportunity to educate everyone about the growing prescription drug abuse problem," said DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart. “Studies have shown that, for many, prescription drugs are the very first drugs they abuse—and all too often they aren’t the last. That is why we are committed to helping Americans keep their homes safe by ridding their medicine cabinets of expired, unused, and unwanted drugs.”

“I encourage every American to take advantage of this valuable opportunity to safely dispose of unused, un-needed, or expired prescription drugs,” said Gil Kerlikowkse, Director of National Drug Control Policy. “Preventing these readily available and potentially deadly drugs from being diverted and misused is something each and every one of us can do to help reduce the epidemic of prescription drug abuse that is harming so many Americans.”

Other participants in this initiative include the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; the American Association of Poison Control Centers; the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America; D.A.R.E. America; the Federation of State Medical Boards; the U. S. Health Resources and Services Administration; the International Association of Chiefs of Police; the National Association of Attorneys General; the National Family Partnership; the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy; the National District Attorneys Association; the National Sheriffs Association; and The Partnership at Drugfree.org.

Sports and Recreation

ARHS Sports Photos by Chris Wraight www.thawkspix.com

COME WATCH!

FIRST EVER HOME GAME

ALGONQUIN GIRLS RUGBY

V.

LINCOLN-SUDBURY HS

WED, APRIL 27^TH

KICK-OFF @ 3:30

(PRACTICE FOOTBALL FIELD)

Assabet Valley Mastersingers Present “A British Perspective”

May 7, at 8 p.m., Assabet Valley Mastersingers will focus on “A British Perspective” in concert at Evangelical Congregational Church, West Main Street (Route 30) and Church Street, Westborough. Poetry infuses all of the three widely different selections on the program. Accessible to the physically challenged, with assistive listening systems and large-print programs available. Concert tickets may be purchased at Robinson Music Company, Westborough; Shattuck Pharmacy, Northborough; Shrewsbury Federal Credit Union, Shrewsbury; English Garden Florist, Southborough; Arts Alliance, Hudson; and Joy-Den Jewelers and Main Street Café in Marlborough. Tickets: $18 or $15 for students/seniors. For info, call 1-978-562-9838

Antonio "Tony" Morazzini, 77, of Ashland passed away April 23, 2011. Born in Southborough he was the son of the late Antonio and Bertha (Giombetti) Morazzini and the husband of Cathrene (Lang) Morazzini. Tony spent 25 happy years in the U.S. Navy traveling extensively in Britain, Europe, and Asia. Later he worked at Fenwal Corp. in Ashland and lastly with the Ashland School Department. He liked to work around his yard, go fishing and woodworking. He especially enjoyed time with his friends at the coffee shop. Besides his wife he is survived by one son: Jim of Hamburg, N.Y.; his daughter: Janet of Oakland, Maine. Two grandchildren: Caitlin and Joshua Morazzini of New York. His two nieces: Virginia DesMarais and her husband Walter of Ashland, and Lorraine Gentili of Fredericksburg, Va. One sister: Imperia Pacific of Marlboro and many more nieces and nephews in the Marlborough and Framingham area. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m., in the Chapel of the Matarese Funeral Home, 325 Main St. Ashland. There will be an hour of visitation prior to the service.

Arbor Day of Service

APRIL 29, 2011

The Massachusetts Arborists Association launched a brand new volunteer initiative in 2010 called Arbor Day of Service. This initiative was built on the success of the association’s traditional celebration, held for 30 years, by creating a statewide volunteer service day. We hope you'll participate in 2011.

Arbor Day of Service Sponsorships available! Click here to learn more.

Click here for the ADoS toolkit that contains all the information you'll need to run a successful Arbor Day of Service project. Make a difference by giving back.

Read more...

Sports and Recreation

ARHS Sports Photos by Chris Wraight www.thawkspix.com

April 23, 2011 - The United Parishes of Southborough held their eleventh annual sunrise service at Hopkinton State Park this morning.  Although we didn't see the sun, the birds were all out singing.

April 23, 2011 - Raindrops still rest on the flowers of this tree.

Southborough meetings

April 25,  to April 29, 2010

Southborough Library  website:  Click here

Senior Center Activities

NEW HOMELAND SECURITY (TERROR) ADVISORY SYSTEM

April 23, 2011

If you have not heard already the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented a NEW Terror Alert/Threat Level System, called the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS).  This will replace the Color-Code system, which will be completely discontinued. Below is a summary of information regarding this new system.

 “Washington, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will discontinue the color-coded alerts of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) in favor of a new system, the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), that will more effectively communicate information about terrorist threats by providing timely, detailed information to the public, government agencies, first responders, airports and other transportation hubs, and the private sector.”

There are only two Alert Levels with the new system: “Imminent” and “Elevated”

 Example of an Official Threat Alert Release: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ntas/ntas-sample-alert.pdf 

       The link to the official website is: http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/ntas.shtm In addition to an overview, ANYYONE   can sign-up to receive alerts through various mediums.  

 DHS has requested all parties to:

•  Remove any postings (hard-copy/electronic) of the Color-Code System

• Post the new (NTAS) system and/or website link to the NTAS

• Share information with family, friends, co-workers, etc.

Susan Anderson, 57, of Hopkinton, passed away Sunday, April 17, 2011 at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. Born in Michigan, she was the daughter of the late Kim and Caroline (Womack) Hill. She was the wife of Christopher Anderson of Hopkinton. A 20 year Hopkinton resident, Susan formerly worked at Ford Motors and had been a teacher and technology coordinator in the Hopkinton School system for 15 years. Besides her husband of 32 years, she leaves behind her children, Christopher Anderson and his wife Jacqueline, Mark Anderson and Brian Anderson, and her brother, Kim E. Hill of NY, NY. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 from 5-8p.m. at the Chesmore Funeral Home of Hopkinton, 57 Hayden Rowe St. www.ChesmoreFuneralHome.com A funeral service will take place on Thursday, April 21st at 11:00a.m. at Pilgrim Church, 15 Common St. Southborough. Burial will take place in Charlestown, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 495 Old Connecticut Path Ste 220 Framingham, MA 01701.

Patricia J. Flanders of Marshfield, formerly of Hopkinton and Southborough, died in the Life Care Center of Scituate, at the age of 42, after a long battle with cancer. Beloved daughter of Susan and Thomas Flanders of Marshfield. Sister of Julie Flanders and Thomas Flanders, Jr. of Hopkinton. Patricia was born in Framingham, Nov. l2, l968 and lived a courageous life coping with the challenges of Spina Bifida. Educated in the Southborough School System. She attended Quinsigamond Community College of Worcester, concentrating in Medical Administrative Studies. Very much loved by her aunts Jean Holland of FL, Patricia Kienholz and husband Donald of NH, Uncle John Flanders and wife Lois of CT, several cousins and friends. Funeral from the MacDonald Funeral Home, l755 Ocean St., Rte. l39, Marshfield on Wednesday, April 27 at l0 a.m. followed by a funeral Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Careswell St, Marshfield at 11 a.m. Interment following Mass in Cedar Grove Cemetary, Marshfield. In lieu of flowers, donations in Patricias memory may be made to the Norwell Visiting Nurses Association and Hospice, 9l Longwater Circle, Norwell, MA 0206l. For online guest book and directions please visit our website www.macdonaldfuneralhome.co

Sports and Recreation

ARHS Sports Photos by Chris Wraight www.thawkspix.com

April 24, 2011 - The ARHS boys Lacrosse team played Minnechaug in heavy rain Saturday.

April 24, 2011 - ARHS won against Minnechaug 5-3 Saturday.