Ack, I can’t believe I’m going to miss National Night Out this year. My first time out, of course, led to this, which was awesome, and Fire Chief Mickey Gauthier was nice enough to bring both Don Clark and me AND my fearless daughter up in the tower again last year. Here’s the info on…
Remember last year, when new cases of West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis were driving everyone inside at sunset and we didn’t have a single nighttime football game until the frost hit? Maybe it’s a little more vivid for me since, at the time, I had a map on the board of my home…
The 215th Army Band of the Massachusetts Army National Guard will be helping the town of Grafton celebrate Independence Day on Wednesday in the Grafton Lions Club’s annual concert. The band will be performing at 7:30 p.m. on Grafton Common and… there are probably people who are already staking out spots on the Common. In…
The Fisherville & Farnumsville Streetscape Committee is pleased to announce that the dedication ceremony for the Mill Villages Park Memorial Plaza will be held on Friday, June 14 at 6 p.m. The ceremony, which will be followed by a Flag Day concert, is open to the public and will take place rain or shine. The…
I had second thoughts about covering Memorial Day this year. But that was Saturday, when I was bundled up in a sweatshirt, watching hockey and feeling very un-Memorial Day like. Come on. It’s Memorial Day. How can I not take photos of Grafton’s Memorial Day parade? Rich Price was also out this morning at the…
Memorial Day is Monday and while the rest of the weekend looks to be rainy, it looks like the sun will be shining on Grafton’s veterans, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts who will step off in the annual Memorial Day parade. The Memorial Day celebration begins in the morning, when veterans visit each of the…
Town election by the numbers: Board of Selectmen (the only contested race) Craig Dauphinais 843 Dennis Flynn 731 Bruce Spinney 696 Robert Nault 525 Write-ins: Lisa Kelley 4 Nicola Ashmore 1 Christine Brown 1 Fe Naff 1 Michael Sowyrda 1 Laurence Silverman 1 Bradford Nauet 1 Matthew Chouinard 1 Chris LeMay 1 P. Adams 1…
Grafton rededicated its Civil War monument today and celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Grafton Town House. A good hunk of the town is getting all dressed up for a costume ball tonight but the highlight of the day so far was the Civil War encampment on Grafton Common. The 13th Massachusetts, a group of…
Three words: free tomato plants! That must mean it’s time for Plantapalooza, the Community Harvest Project’s annual plant sale fundraiser. This year’s Plantapalooza is Saturday, May 18, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wheeler Road farm. Proceeds from Plantapalooza support Community Harvest Project’s operations, providing funds for seeds and other farm supplies needed to…
What do these things — an elegant wine dinner for four at One Eleven Chop House, Walt Disney Park Hopper passes and an iPad mini have in common? These are just a few of the items available to bid on at the Silent Auction at The Costume Ball on May 18, 6 p.m. at the…
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