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Marlborough Hudson An edition of the Community Advocate
Committee approves $500,000 bond to remediate landfill
The former landfill at Hudson Avenue will soon be fully remediated and ready for use. (Photo/Maureen Sullivan
By Maureen Sullivan Assistant Editor MARLBOROUGH – Work continues on efforts to convert the former landfill on Hudson Avenue into a recreation area. On Monday, July 8, the City Council’s Finance Committee approved a bond of $500,000 to remediate a portion of the former landfill. According to the Department of Public Works, the southwest waste area of the landfill has been dug up, and it will be sealed with a new cap. Once the cap is in place, fields would eventually be installed on top. “I’m glad to see it’s going to be remediated,” said City Councilor Mark Oram. Work should be completed by this winter, according to the DPW. The request will be sent to the full City Landfill | 12
Hudson veteran David Simpson cleans gravestones of fallen soldiers By Tyler Charpentier Contributing Writer HUDSON - Vietnam War veteran and longtime Hudson resident David Simpson dedicates his early mornings to cleaning and refurbishing his fellow veterans’ gravestones throughout cemeteries in town. For the past two years, he has devoted numerous days to his craft of spraying, brushing and trimming each fallen soldier’s gravestone in Forestvale and Main Street cemeteries. Simpson’s background in genealogy originally brought him to these cemeteries. He curates family trees for his friends and family, which requires an immense amount of background information, and the research includes identifying deceased family members from across the country. In order to obtain this information, Simpson stumbled upon a website in which people can roam through cemeteries to take photographs of headstones and upSimpson | 12
Veteran and Hudson resident David Simpson has been working to clean the gravestones of fallen soldiers. (Photo/Tyler Charpentier)
$920K contract awarded for HFD headquarters project By Sarah Freedman Contributing Writer HUDSON – The Select Board awarded a contract on July 8 to N.B. Kenney Company Inc. in the amount of $920,000 for the Hudson Fire Department headquarters project to replace the flat membrane roof and rooftop air handling units.
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Renovations on the Hudson Fire Department’s headquarters are funded from a $1.1 million borrowing authorization approved by Town Meeting in November 2022 through Article 14, and a $1.2 million appropriation approved at the 2024 Annual Town Meeting through Article 12. Select Board member Diane Bemis noted Renovations | 5
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