Arizona Senior Health Care Firm Expanding to Westborough

ActiveRx's first New England active aging center will open in the Westborough Shopping Center in September.

An Arizona-based senior health care company plans to open its first New England active aging center in the Westborough Shopping Center in a few months. ActiveRx Westborough will have a grand opening at 24 Lyman St., Suite 140, in September, with tours planned for August, the firm said in a press release Tuesday. Regional Developer Paul Reilly plans to open 15 to 20 centers in Southern New England over the next three years, the press release noted. Reilly's territory covers Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. “Our first center is ideally located to serve residents of a number of communities,” Reilly said in the release, “including Westborough, Southborough, Northborough, Hopkinton, Framingham, Upton, Grafton, Shrewsbury, Boylston …

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Lightning Knocks Out Power to About 2,600

National Grid also had to replace a transformer.

A lightning strike near National Grid's Milk Street substation Tuesday night knocked out power to about 2,600 customers in Westborough and Upton, National Grid spokesman David Graves said today. The strike happened around 5:52 p.m., Graves said. The 2,600 without power included 70 in Upton. The outage stalled an elevator at Liberty Mutual, 114 Turnpike Road, with one person inside, and Westborough firefighters helped get them out around 6:19 p.m., the fire department said. Reader Bob Smith Tweeted to Westborough Patch that CVS Pharmacy on East Main Street was without power around 6 p.m. Graves said about 375 customers had their power restored at 6:42 p.m. Another 1,670 were restored at 6:55 p.m., and the remaining 520 were back at 7:58 p.m…

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Lt. Gov. Tim Murray to Resign

CBS Boston reports Murray has a new job lined up already.

UPDATE, 12:15 p.m.: The Massachusetts Republican Party was quick to jump on the reports about Murray's resignation, saying Murray is trying "to outrun the scandal that dogs him" in a statement on their website. MassGOP attempted to liken Murray's exit to that of former House Speaker Thomas Finneran, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in 2007. “History doesn’t always repeat itself, but in this case it looks like Tim Murray is following the same path as a previous, disgraced Democratic official,” said Nate Little MassGOP Executive Director in the scathing statement. “Only time will tell if Murray follows the Finneran playbook to the end, complete with indictment and guilty plea.” UPDATE, 10:45 a.m.: Boston.com has updated their …

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Rob C.

3:10 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The way he is always chearleading for the stupidest things that the Demcratic party does, that even the Boston Globe cant back up, he is probably a paid blogger for them.   more ›

Westborough Fire Log

1 Caught in Stalled Elevator During Tuesday's Storm

Here are the highlights of the Westborough Fire log.

Here are the highlights of the Westborough Fire log for Tuesday, courtesy of the Westborough Fire Department: At 12:23 a.m., EMS responded to 32 Lyman St. At 1:12 p.m., firefighters responded to 295 Turnpike Road for what proved an unintentional alarm. At 5:53 p.m., firefighters responded to 3 Lyman St. for what proved an unintentional alarm. At 5:57 p.m., firefighters responded to Milk at Park streets for a power line down. At 6:18 p.m., firefighters responded to 125 Turnpike Road for what proved a system malfunction. At 6:19 p.m., firefighters responded to 114 Turnpike Road to remove a person from a stalled elevator. At 7:58 p.m., EMS responded to 6 Bowman Lane.

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Westborough Police Log

Report of Break-In Proves Unfounded

Westborough Patch publishes all arrests.

Here are the highlights of the Westborough Police log for Tuesday, courtesy of the Westborough Police Department: At 1:46 a.m., police received a report from Lyman Street of a burglar alarm. At 1:50 a.m., police received a report from Oak Street of a suspicious motor vehicle. At 6:34 a.m., police received a report from Connector Road of a burglar alarm, which proved accidental. At 8:39 a.m., police received a report from Otis Street of a burglar alarm, which proved accidental. At 9:30 a.m., police received a report from East Main Street of a suspicious person. Police arrested Jaryn J. Platt, 23, of 158 Harmony Lane, Framingham and charged him with distributing a Class D drug, and possession of a Class D drug. At 10:37 a.m., police received…

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Liquor Store's Tobacco Permit May Get 7-Day Suspension

HighPoint Wines allegedly has sold tobacco products to under age customers twice this year.

The Westborough Board of Health may suspend a Connector Road liquor store's tobacco sales permit for seven days for selling tobacco products to customers under age 18 twice this year. The board agreed Tuesday night to put HighPoint Wines' suspension on hold until its June meeting, and ask the Worcester Regional Tobacco Control Collaborative if it used someone under 18 and using a Massachusetts driver's license into HighPoint Wines to try to buy a cigar and cigarettes on April 11. Director of Public Health Paul McNulty said HighPoint sold cigarettes to a minor used by the collaborative on Feb. 26. HighPoint owner Devinder Rekki paid a $100 fine, per the board's regulations, McNulty said. The second alleged violation within 12 months …

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Event Planning Firm Moves Into Larger Space

It's one of two new Westborough leases announced.

A Westborough-based event planning and trade show firm has moved into larger quarters on Otis Street. Corporate Communications' agreement for 19,087 square feet of warehouse space at 27 Otis St. was among four leases for Westborough sites recently brokered by Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, LLC, a Boston-based full-service commercial real estate advisory firm. The locations total 276,932 square feet, the real estate firm said in a recent press release. Corporate Communications moved from smaller space on Old Flanders Road, President Bob Dobinski said Tuesday. The firm's lease was among two new ones announced by Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, both at 27 Otis St. Columbia Tech has begun leasing 68,135 square feet of warehouse space there…

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Emery Family Farm Wants to Turn Home Into Two

The family met with the Westborough Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday night.

Newlywed Wesley Buckalew wants to help his parents continue expanding the Emery Family Farm. "In order for us to be able to do that, I need to be able to live on the farm and not live in my parents' house" on the farm, Buckalew told the Westborough Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday night. Buckalew's parents, Timothy Buckalew and Leigh Emery, have asked the board to allow them to create a two-family lot out of the single-family home on the farm, at 5 Emery Road. Toward that end, the couple has asked the board for a variance from the dimensional schedule in the Westborough zoning bylaws, as well as a 2004 variance decision allowing for the single-family home, according to the public hearing notice. The board asked the family to work with …

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Sold!

Wayside Road Home Sold for $606,000

Here are Westborough's latest home sales.

Click on the picture next to this article to look at a photo gallery of homes that sold in Westborough in the last week, according to NewEnglandMoves.com. The same information without photos is available below in an easy-to-scan list. Are you a local Realtor, or have you recently sold your home? Add a photo and the information to this article if your recently sold property is not included here. This week's information was compiled from NewEnglandMoves.com information, using MLS data. Photos are from the MLS Property Information Network. 49 Wayside Road, Westborough Sold Price: $606,000 List Price: $629,900 Sold Date: May 17 (55 days on market) Bedrooms: 4  Bathrooms: 2 and 1 half bath Sq. Ft: 3,500   20 Gary Circle, Westborough Sold Price…

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