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Vol. 48 | No. 47 | November 25, 2022
Judge orders Gutierrez project back before Northborough Planning Board By Laura Hayes Managing Editor
Shrewsbury High School teacher and students cook up a Thanksgiving feast By Caroline Gordon Reporter
What was proposed This decision is the latest after a
SHREWSBURY - A few years ago, Shrewsbury High School Family and Consumer Sciences teacher Shirley LeMay had a vision of general education and special education students mashing potatoes and baking pies together. “It’s a world to bring the two worlds together and realize that they are all kids, they are all the same inside and they just have to help each other to be their best,” LeMay said. Prior to teaching at Shrewsbury High School, LeMay taught physical education to special education students. When that position was cut, LeMay decided to transition and teach consumer science. However, LeMay said she missed her special education students. So, she de-
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NORTHBOROUGH - Plans to construct a distribution center and warehouse on Bartlett Street have been returned to the Planning Board. Judge Kevin Smith issued this decision after the Gutierrez Company appealed the Planning Board’s denial. “For the foregoing reasons, I find that the board’s decision denying site plan approval … and a special permit … was legally untenable, arbitrary, unreasonable, and otherwise beyond the proper exercise of the board’s law authority,” Smith wrote in his Nov. 9 decision.
Shrewsbury High School students were busy cooking up a Thanksgiving feast on Nov. 18.
Town Meeting will revote on library project in Dec. By Maureen Sullivan Senior Reporter WESTBOROUGH - The Westborough Public Library’s building project will be back before Town Meeting for another vote. During its meeting on Nov. 15, the Select Board decided to hold a special Town Meeting on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 9
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a.m. at the high school. The board acknowledged that on Nov. 7, the Town Clerk’s office received a petition with more than 500 signatures asking for a revote. The signatures were certified the weekend of Nov. 12. During the special Town Meeting on Oct. 17, the project, estimated to cost
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