The Northborough Historic District Commission voted 5-0 to back Trinity Church's bid for a $265,000 Community Preservation Act grant toward its steeple's second restoration phase.
Northborough-Southborough school committees raise superintendent's salary, pause a cell phone tracking app after backlash.
Northborough Planning Board approved a special permit for a two-family home at 2 Buena Vista Drive and signed off on an amended landscape plan for the Hit Tracks facility at 1 Lyman Street.
Northborough's Select Board voted 5-0 to appoint Keith Darling as the town's next fire chief, following Deputy Fire Chief Neal Espizzi's withdrawal from the post. Chair Jonathan Rea said Darling, a 24-year Franklin Fire Department veteran and U.S. Army veteran, starts October 1.
Northborough's Conservation Commission voted 3-2 against requiring a groundwater monitoring well at the Knox Trail subdivision's stormwater basin. Chair Greg Young and member Dan Clark favored the well; members Justin Dufresne, Todd Helwig and Kelley Marston opposed it.
One Northborough obituary was published this week: Winkler, John C., 65, who died Saturday, September 5, 2026, in York, Maine, after a sudden medical episode, according to a notice from Hays Funeral Home - Northborough carried on Legacy.com.
The Peasley Building Committee's Communications Subcommittee approved amended minutes and planned a fall outreach push ahead of a town funding vote.
The Northborough Traffic Safety Committee weighed costly fixes for Davis Street cut-through traffic but took no vote.
Northborough's Board of Health voted unanimously to approve a reduced wetland setback for a septic replacement at 14 Mill Street and to let the health agent approve routine septic repairs without board review.
The Northborough Council on Aging spent most of its September 8 meeting sorting years of survey and focus-group data into four strategic-plan themes.