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Marlborough Hudson An edition of the Community Advocate
Vol. 52 | No. 19 | May 8, 2026
Hudson housing Hudson educator mixes baseball and poetry in her literature classroom development withdrawn again By Evan Walsh Managing Editor
By Paul Hopkins Reporter HUDSON – For the second time, a developer has withdrawn a proposal to develop an 11.3-acre wooded area between Field Stream Lane, Kattail Road, and the Assabet River. The development would have used the town’s Open Space Residential Subdivision ordinance. Quality Crafted Residences, a local builder, wanted to erect 13 custom-built homes; the special ordinance would have allowed the developer to build houses closer together, keeping the footprints away from the Assabet River and preserving about 6.8 acres of open space. According to the original plan, that additional open space would have been conveyed to Hudson. The Conservation Commission supported the “cluster” housing plan, but the development also received a fair amount of pushback. At the Planning Board’s April 7 meeting, member Darryl Filippi said there are examples of over-building in certain neighborhoods. He preferred that the plan include fewer homes and larger lots. According to minutes from that meeting, Filippi said “the Board was being asked to buy into a plan without seeing it in three dimensions,” and that he would like to see renderings of the proposal. Planning Board Vice-Chair Rodney Frias has also expressed concerns with the density of development.
HUDSON – Carol Hobbs will be the first to admit that she’s no baseball expert. The 20-year Hudson High School literature teacher grew up in Springdale, Newfoundland – a town of about 3,000 on the Canadian island’s northern coast. Hockey, not baseball, is the popular sport in the region, and Hobbs earned her only sports trophy in another icy pursuit: curling. “I’m the furthest thing from a baseball athlete you’d imagine,” she joked. But despite her relative lack of experience with the sport, Hobbs – who normally teaches Shakespeare and other literary classics – found space for it in her curriculum, and her students have hit it out of the park. Hobbs’ unique creative writing initiative that focuses on baseball poetry has yielded multiple award-winners at the National Baseball Poetry Festival, which comes to Polar Park Baseball Poetry | 6
City addiction center may move to meet demand By Evan Walsh Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH – Addiction doesn’t discriminate. Neither does Marlborough’s ARC. The ARC (Addiction Referral Center) provides services for people like CEOs, at-
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Carol Hobbs (Photo/Evan Walsh)
torneys, and the homeless. Some come in suits and ties, others come in clothes with stains. Some have been coming to the ARC for years, but for some, it could be their first appeal for help. “We help everybody, and nobody is judged,” said ARC Executive Director Mark Vital. ARC | 9
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