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Your community. Your news. Your paper. Vol. 50 | No. 17 | April 26, 2024
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Westborough ballplayers learn from former MLB hitting coach Proposed industrial park’s sound, air pollution discussed at Planning Board Shrewsbury| 5
Governor’s visit to Ascend Elements part of tour to charge up climate tech initiative Westborough | 12
By Evan Walsh Reporter WESTBOROUGH – It’s not often that an MLB-level hitting coach visits town, but it’s even rarer to have that coach spend their day traveling around the community to help athletes at all different levels. But that’s what Ken Joyce did on April 17. He visited Westborough to help Westborough High School’s softball team, baseball team and the town’s Little League ballplayers. Joyce passed on his 29 years of professional baseball experience — and his in-depth knowledge of the perfect swing — to roughly 60 Westborough athletes for over six hours. Joyce earned his first World Series ring with the Florida Marlins organization in 1997. After some time in the Blue Jays organization, Joyce started coaching for the San Francisco Giants organization, where he would earn his second, third and fourth World Series rings in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Joyce coached in the Arizona Fall League, where he had Mike Trout and Bryce Harper on the same team. As impressive as Joyce’s career is, he was the one that was impressed last week. “What I saw was a bunch of young ladies that were eager to learn; they’ve MLB hitting coach | 22
Former MLB hitting coach Ken Joyce works with members of the Westborough High School softball team April 17. (Photo/Evan Walsh)
Appropriation reduced for siding project at TM By Laura Hayes, Managing Editor
Grafton Garden Club sponsors annual cleanup Grafton| 13
NORTHBOROUGH – An amendment made on the floor of Town Meeting on Monday, April 22, reduced the appropriation for a project to replace the siding of the town’s police station. According to Department of Public Works Director Scott Charpentier, Article 19 would fund the removal of the siding and trim at the station, and the
installation of a new vapor barrier, siding and trim. Town staff learned during a recent visit by contractors that the existing siding would not support paint, he said. “This is due to systemic nail protrusions that are resulted from rotted clapboard and cupping of the clapboard as well as the trim,” said Charpentier. During last year’s Town Meeting, voters apTown Meeting | 9
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