Selectmen name change moves forward
Rep. McGovern touts recent food bank donation Grafton | 10
shrewsbury | 8
Senior center holds cornhole game northborough | 16
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Vol. 48 | No. 28 | July 15, 2022
Proposed Westborough bag fee rejected by AG
Honoring veterans
Westborough’s Liam Johnson reflects on work with veterans By Laura Hayes Senior Reporter
By Laura Hayes and Dakota Antelman
WESTBOROUGH - When Westborough’s annual town election rolled around this past March, Liam Johnson noticed that there was an open space on the Trustees of Soldiers’ Memorials. He threw his hat in the ring. It was an in-the-moment decision, he recalled. “I didn’t know until I walked in, and I was like, ‘That’s interesting,’” he said. Johnson told his mom, and he ended up winning the seat after securing two write-in votes.
WESTBOROUGH - A proposed mandatory $0.10 fee for bags at Westborough stores will not go into effect thanks to a recent move by the state attorney general. The fee was part of a series of amendments to Westborough’s existing Plastic Bag Reduction bylaw. It passed at Town Meeting in March. But it was recently disallowed on review by the office of Attorney General Maura Healey, according to a determination letter from the AG’s office, which reviews bylaws. Though the AG’s office struck down the fee, it approved other changes, including one that required all bags given out at stores to be either reusable — made from 100% post-consumer or biodegradable material — or be made of recyclable paper. This change will go into effect on July 18.
Trustees hold variety of duties The trustees — made up of the Select Board chair, three veterans and two nonveterans — are responsible for the care and maintenance of the town’s 10 memorials.
Bag bylaw | 14
Johnson | 15
WRTA weighs extending Shrewsbury bus route By Laura Hayes, Senior Reporter SHREWSBURY - Bus route and schedule changes affecting service to Shrewsbury may soon be coming for the Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA), following a slate of scheduled informational sessions this week. Announced last week, and discussed in meetings on Tuesday and Thursday,
one of the proposed changes would extend one of the bus routes – Route 12 – to the new Edgemere Crossing development in Shrewsbury. The WRTA is also proposing the addition of another bus to provide more trips on that route. Route 12 currently runs from Union Station in downtown Worcester to the Southwest Commons mall near the WRTA | 9
Liam Johnson was recently elected to the Trustees of Soldiers’ Memorials.
wheel deal Major car show comes to Westborough
events | 16
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