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Your community. Your news. Your paper. Vol. 50 | No. 20 | May 17, 2024
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16-year-old killed in Northborough party shooting
‘The best is yet to come’
Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early speaks at a press conference. (Photo/Laura Hayes)
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FREE Amyot stepping down as director of Westborough Library
After playing basketball for Shrewsbury 66 years ago, Bryan returns to the court
westborough | 9 Digital signage, microbreweries to be discussed at Town Meeting
By Laura Hayes, Managing Editor NORTHBOROUGH – A shooting during a party in Northborough has resulted in the death of a 16-year-old boy from Bellingham. Three people face firearm-related charges — Wallisom Texeira Da Silva, 20, of Hyde Park; Arnoldo Nogueira Filho, 19, of Marlborough; and Pedro Desouza Passos, 27, of Rockland. At about 1 a.m. on May 12, a pedestrian flagged down a Northborough police officer and said that someone brandished a firearm at 333 Howard Shooting | 6
Questions on sewer capacity to be answered in June By Maureen Sullivan, Assistant Editor WESTBOROUGH – Is the town nearing capacity when it comes to wastewater? Can its system handle new development projects? Will the town need to change how it handles allocations? According to Department of Public Works Director Chris Payant, these questions could be answered in June, when a “memo with a table” on sewer allocations will be made available. During the Economic Development Sewer | 6
shrewsbury | 14 Northborough, Southborough voters head to the polls
Regional | 7 Vincequere stifles Westborough baseball on Senior Night
Jan Bryan stands on the Oak Middle School gymnasium floor, where she started playing basketball 66 years ago. (Photo/Evan Walsh)
By Evan Walsh, Reporter SHREWSBURY – It had been a while since Jan Bryan worked on her layup or three-point shot — but she’s not letting that stop her. As she walked around the Oak Middle School gymnasium, dribbling a basketball underneath the basket, Bryan was met with both nostalgia and excitement. Roughly 66 years ago, while Oak was still Shrewsbury High School, she played for the varsity basketball team. Bryan stopped playing basketball after she graduated, but later this month, she’ll be going back to her old stomping ground to join dozens of other Shrewsbury staff members in an exhibition basketball game against the Harlem Wizards to raise money for Shrewsbury Public Schools. She was 14 when she scored her first point in this gym; she’ll be celebrating her 80th birthday this time around. “I’m not going to humiliate myself for just anybody,” she said. Journey to substitute teaching Bryan grew up in Shrewsbury and, like her father and grandfather, graduated from Shrewsbury High School. She attended the high school — which became Oak Middle School in 2004 — from 1958 to 1962. The school, built in 1953, was new at the time, and Bryan | 25
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