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City Council approves permit for pickleball facility By Maureen Sullivan Assistant Editor MARLBOROUGH – A pickleball facility is closer to coming to Airport Boulevard. On Monday, Oct. 21, the City Council approved a special permit to allow Ambidextrous Ventures LLC to construct the pickleball facility. The application is still subject to a site plan review. Plans for the facility call for a single-story, 19,950-square-foot building with six indoor pickleball courts; one pickleball practice court; a pickleball pro shop; office; restrooms; locker rooms; lounge; sale of beverages and prepackaged snacks; viewing area; and one outdoor pickleball court. There will also be 76 parking spaces, a picnic area and other accessory uses to support the pickleball complex, including indoor ping-pong, foosball, darts and other activities conducted during wait times. As part of the conditions, the exterior lights will be downward facing and shielded to minimize impacts on neighboring properties; there will not be any lights on the outdoor court. The applicant will also provide landscape screening for abutters. The facility will be allowed to operate seven days a week, from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. Pickleball players will be able to use the outdoor court from dawn (no earlier than 7 a.m.) to dusk (no later than 9 p.m.), and it will be locked when it’s not open for use. The pickleball facility will be able to serve wine and malt beverages, provided that its
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Vol. 50 | No. 45 | November 8, 2024
Lifelong Marlborough resident celebrates 100th birthday By Maureen Sullivan Assistant Editor MARLBOROUGH – Mabel Belmore sat in the community room of the Marlborough Community Development Building on Bolton Street. She was celebrating her 100th birthday with cake, ice cream and several of her friends. “I love her,” said her friend, Nadine Kantor. “She tells me all kinds of stories.” Born Mabel Ledoux in 1924 in Marlborough, Belmore was a junior in high school when her mother told her to drop out. “I had to go to work and pay her bills,” she said. For the next several decades, she worked at nearly every shoe shop in the city. She Birthday | 7
Mabel Belmore, seated, with Jerry McDevitt, Nadine Kantor and Rhonda Cotton. She recently celebrated her 100th birthday. (Photo/Maureen Sullivan)
Hudson works on update to its housing production plan By Sarah Freedman Contributing Writer HUDSON – Town staff are working on an update to Hudson’s Housing Production Plan, which Assistant Director of Planning and Community Development Pam Helinek described as a proactive approach for the planning and development of affordable housing.
The Affordable Housing Trust has hired a consultant to help it make changes to meet state requirements, according to Helinek. The structure is defined by the state, and, if the state certifies the plan, it may prevent any unwanted 40B development should the town go below the required 10% threshold. The 10% threshold refers to the percentage
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