Marlboro/Sudbury Action

15/07/2025

Looking for something to do this summer? Why not check out our Community Calendar for local events?

July 15 Tuesday view all events Roudenbush Community Market When: Tuesday, Jul. 15, 3:00PM Where: 25 Depot Street, Westford New and exciting vendors every week from July 1 – August 26th, 3-7PM. July 15 – Local Business and non-profits, over 40 vendors will be in attendance – shop local!Vendors...

01/05/2025

17 Animal Rescues Join PAWS IN THE PARK
this Sunday, May 4, 10 am - 3 pm
Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, Sudbury
Have you been thinking of adopting a pet?
Join Save A Dog this Sunday, May 4, from 10 am to 3 pm on the grounds of historic Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury as we celebrate the 25th Annual PAWS IN THE PARK – one of the largest gatherings of people and pups in New England!
Rain or shine, this is the place to be for canine and family fun!
This year, PAWS IN THE PARK also offers a great opportunity to visit with representatives of 17 animal rescues from Massachusetts and beyond, and meet some of their amazing, adoptable pets.
Joining in the day-long festivities are:
• Baypath Humane Society (Hopkinton)
• B.O.N.E.S. (Beagles of New England States - NH)
• Brown Dog Coalition and Rescue (Hopkinton)
• Buddy Dog (Sudbury)
• Collie Rescue League of New England (VT)
• Commonwealth Cats (Peabody)
• Crops and Flops Rescue (Westminster)
• Greyhound Friends (Hopkinton)
• Long Island Bulldog Rescue (NY)
• Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society (Salisbury)
• National Great Pyrenees Rescue (NY)
• Northeast Coonhound Rescue (Lexington)
• Paw-Affection Dachshund Rescue (Taunton)
• PittieLove Rescue (Framingham)
• Save A Dog (Sudbury)
• Stray Pets in Need (Natick)
• Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue (Hudson)
Don’t miss this celebration filled with music, food vendors, kids games and face painting, dog games and contests, a dog agility course with try-outs, alumni and littermate reunions, raffles and a silent auction... plus 67 vendors and exhibitors.
Special highlights include a Group Dog Walk at 11 am led by Anna Meiler, WBZ News Anchor and host of WBZ’s Sunday morning “Pet Parade.”
The Adoptable Dogs Parade at noon will feature dogs from our participating rescue organizations.
And TRAX, the Worcester Railers Hockey Club mascot, will make a special appearance right after the parade from at 12:30 pm.
Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for children 5-12.
Kids under 5 are free, and strollers are welcome.
(Admission is waived for those who set up a personal online pledge page and raise $15 or more. Go to www.saveadog.org/paws2025-pledges.asp)
And of course bring your dog—if they enjoy being around people and other dogs—on a 6 foot or shorter leash (no retractable leashes, please).
All proceeds from PAWS IN THE PARK benefit the life-saving rescue and adoption work of Save A Dog, a 501c3 tax exempt humane society.
Now entering its 27th year, Save a Dog has found loving forever homes for more than 8,500 pets through its Sudbury shelter and dedicated network of foster homes.
See you Sunday!

01/05/2025

Grieving Mother’s Support Group
Myles Above in Heaven
An intimate support group in the loss of child........
Saturday May 17th
10:30am-12:30pm
Hudson Public Library
Hudson, MA

Saturday May 24th
10:30am -12:30pm
Duffy Properties
135 Beaver St
Waltham, MA

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01/05/2025

Heritage Chorale Spring Concert 2025: Heaven and Earth
The online box office is open for Heaven and Earth, a wonderful choral concert on Sunday, May 18 at 4pm at the Fuller Middle School, 31 Flagg Drive in Framingham. We hope you’ll join us!
The concert will feature a selection of sacred and secular pieces, including some stunningly beautiful settings of psalms and poetry about the natural world.
One highlight of the concert will honor Alice Parker, a world-renowned champion of choral singing who was born in Boston and spent most of her life in New England. The Parker pieces will include some of her most famous spiritual arrangements, as well as “An American Kedusha,” a setting taken from the Jewish Sabbath morning liturgy.
Another local connection is Dominick Argento’s “Walden Pond,” a song cycle using texts by Henry David Thoreau, accompanied by the unusual instrumentation of three cellos and harp.
Guest performers will be Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, soprano and Cantor David Wolff, tenor.
Please visit https://www.heritagechorale.org for more details and to order tickets online in advance.

Presenting its 88th season of high-quality choral performances for Metrowest music-loving audiences. Read about concerts, volunteer and support opportunities.

01/05/2025

“Shop for Free at Trinity: The Free Sale”
- Trinity Church, 14 Wattaquadock Hill Rd., Bolton, will be hosting an indoor yard sale on Saturday, June 7th, 9:00AM - Noon. All items are free. Household goods, toys, books, movies, sporting goods, clothing, more. Enjoy free refreshments as well!

Trinity Church, Congregational serves Bolton Massachusetts and surrounding towns including Stow, Hudson, Marlborough, Northborough, Berlin, Clinton, Lancaster and Harvard plus all of MetroWest, Worcester and Middlesex counties.

03/04/2025

56th Annual Ham & Turkey Raffle
At Stony Brook Fish & Game
(128 Lowell Road – Westford)
Sunday April 13th – 1PM
20 Easter Hams and 20 Turkeys raffled on a spin wheel
*Sirloin Strips, Prime Ribs and others are also being raffled off.
Raffle tickets on sale at the event!
$1500 Cash drawing as well!
(Drawing tickets on sale now – see any Stony Brook member)
Open to the public
Food and beverages will also be available.

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13/03/2025

Local Shelter and Pet Store Team Up
to Help Shelter Dogs Find their Forever Homes Saturday, March 22, 10am – 12 pm
Save A Dog of Sudbury and Wag N’ Wash at 1173 Main Street, West Concord, are teaming up again to host another in-store “Meet & Greet” adoption event on Saturday, March 22, 10 am – 12 pm.
“This is always a fantastic opportunity to have several of our amazing, deserving pups meet their potential forever person or family in a fun and welcoming setting,” says Julie Bolio, Save A Dog’s Shelter Manager. “Adoptions all over the country have slowed, leading to longer stays in the shelter, so we especially appreciate the opportunity to give our pups extra exposure... and past in-store “Meet & Greets” have proven very successful!”
While Save A Dog adopters often hail from all over New England and Massachusetts, the “Meet & Greet” events are particularly popular with residents from surrounding communities including Acton, Marlborough, Boxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Stow, Harvard, Westford and Littleton.
Vibe, pictured here, is one of the Save A Dog pups looking for his special family. A happy-go-lucky, 9-month-old Bully/Heeler mix, Vibe is a typical puppy who loves to run and play, rides well in the car, and enjoys outdoor adventures... but also settles down nicely inside the home. He’s already crate-trained, housetrained, knows several commands, and gently takes treats. As a people-focused pup, he’s smart and learns quickly.
More information about Save A Dog’s adoptable dogs (and cats!) can be found on the Save A Dog website: www.saveadog.org. Potential adopters are encouraged to fill out an online adoption application beforehand at www.saveadog.org/applytoadopt.asp
Now celebrating more than 25 years of rescuing abandoned dogs and cats through its Sudbury shelter and network of dedicated foster homes, Save A Dog has found loving families for more than 8,500 companion animals.
See you Saturday, March 22

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13/03/2025

Artwork From Over 20 Local Artists
On Saturday, March 22nd 10am to 4pm and Sunday, March 23rd 12 noon to 4pm the Spring Equinox Art Fair will be held at the First Parish Church, 353 Great Road, in Stow. Sponsored by SAGA and the FPC Arts Committee, over 20 local artists have works for sale including paintings, pottery, fabric art, photography, greeting cards and much more. Admission and Parking is Free and the show is accessible to people of all abilities including wheelchair users. More info can be found on the FPC website

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13/03/2025

Groundbreaking & moving exhibition, Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories, open at the Davis Museum
On view - free and open to the public - through June 1, 2025
WELLESLEY, MASS. Through June 1, the exhibition, Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories, at the Davis Museum explores photography as a strategy for healing. The artists employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities.
About 40 works are on view through June 1, 2025, along with two other exhibitions at the Davis Museum, all highlighting new acquisitions. All three opened on Feb. 7, 2025.
“Sovereign Memory reflects on how artists employ the medium of photography to reimagine the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present,” said Jessica Orzulak, Associate Curator and Curatorial Affairs Manager at the Asheville Art Museum and former Linda Wyatt Gruber ‘66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis Museum who curated Sovereign Memory. “Photographs can capture intimate moments of our individual lived experiences, but they also have the capacity to share a more complicated portrait of collective life and histories from a myriad of perspectives.”
Among the artists represented are: Carrie Mae Weems, Mildred Howard, Ellen Howard, Lorraine O’Grady, Tatiana Parcero, Zanele Muholi, Sky Hopinka, Gordon Parks, Willie Cole, Rico Gatson, Fred Wilson, and Wendy Red Star.

All of the artists in Sovereign Memory share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are. Orzulak believes photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires.
For communities who endured generations of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures. The multiplicity of personal and collective experiences becomes distilled into a single, simplified story told from an exterior perspective.
Featuring a transnational selection of photographic works from the Davis’s collections, this exhibition expands that single, false story into many sovereign memories. These artworks have become emblems for reconnecting to known and unknown histories, enacting memory as an emancipatory strategy.
Curated by Orzulak, this exhibition is supported with funds given through the generosity of Linda Wyatt Gruber (Class of 1966).
The Davis Museum is free and open to the public Tuesdays to Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please call 781-283-2051 or visit https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/visit/directions.

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13/03/2025

Lincoln Sudbury Civic Orchestra Chamber Players Spring 2025 Concert Tour
The Lincoln Sudbury Civic Orchestra (LSCO) Chamber Players, the chamber music ensemble of the LSCO will present three concerts in the spring 2025 tour. The group will perform in two venues in Sudbury and one in Lincoln between March 30 and April 27.
The LSCO, in residence at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School since 1973, created the Chamber Players initiative in the summer of 2024. Members of the orchestra combine in conductor-less groups to perform works in small ensembles, ranging from duos to 12-members.
The spring tour features a wide range of music and styles, from Bach Trio Sonatas to the earliest quartets of Franz Joseph Haydn, through Claude Debussy, Rodney Lister, Bohuslav Martinu, and Caroline Naime, to the Bossa Nova styles of Brazilian Celso Machado. A new work for brass quintet by Sudbury resident and managing director of the orchestra William Nicholson will be premiered.
The LSCO Chamber Players’ mission is to bring excellent chamber music to regular listeners in the ‘artistic concerts’ and to provide added listening experiences to less served audiences in the ’service concerts’, for Council on Aging clients in both Sudbury and Lincoln and other audiences in need.
The first and third concerts are the artistic shows: the first concert of the tour is sponsored by the Sudbury Meetinghouse Concert Series of the First Parish of Sudbury on Sunday March 30 at 4:00 PM. The church is located at 327 Concord Rd in Sudbury. Admission is a suggested donation of $25.
In the service show part of the tour, the Chamber Players will perform again at Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd in Lincoln on Friday April 4 at 12:30 PM in a special program sponsored by the Lincoln Public Library, in collaboration with the Lincoln Council on Aging and Human Services. Admission is free.
For the last concert of the tour, the Players return to the Goodnow Library, 21 Concord Rd in Sudbury on Sunday April 27 at 3 PM. Admission is free.
Orchestra member Eric Hollander (viola) encouraged orchestra leadership to consider adding chamber music concerts to the regular orchestra calendar. Percussionist/timpanist Dave McLellan teamed up with Eric to organize a grassroots effort to form chamber ensembles from regular members of the orchestra. Since 1973, the LSCO has performed two concerts per year at the Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in January and June. The group will now add at least two chamber music concerts per year to its regular performance season, which spans the academic year.
Admission is free at both concerts at the Goodnow Library and Bemis Hall. All facilities where the Chamber Players perform are handicapped accessible.
For over 50 years, the LSCO has provided opportunities for talented students and supportive adults to perform orchestral literature of the great classical composers. LSCO has provided playing opportunities for over 500 student musicians and given over thirty student and adult concerto artists an opportunity to share their skills and love of classical music. Membership is open to the community regardless of their hometown. The orchestra rehearses every Tuesday evening from 7:30 – 9:30 PM in the large ensemble room at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School (LSRHS), 390 Lincoln Rd in Sudbury. Visit the orchestra web site at https://www.lscivicorchestra.org. Musicians interested in joining LSCO should contact the membership coordinator by email at [email protected], or use the Contact Us link at the orchestra web site.

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13/03/2025

New-to-You Thrift Sale
Shop our thrift sale! Same low prices. Even greater finds! At First Parish of Sudbury.

Everything you can put in a paper grocery bag for $10/bag.*
We supply the bag!

*Individually priced items will be for sale in the Jewelry Store, the Fine Clothing and Coats/Suits Boutiques, and the Outdoor Goods Department.

Free parking is available at First Parish and across the street behind Sudbury Town Hall. First Parish is located at 327 Concord Road, in the center of historic Sudbury

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13/03/2025

Mark your calendars! The must-visit Flea Market & Artisan Fair is BACK!
If you love discovering unique treasures, handcrafted goods, and supporting local artisans, this is the event for you! Join us at the West Acton Baptist Church, 592 Mass Ave., Acton, on May 10, 2025, from 12-3 PM for an afternoon of shopping, community, and fun. Hosted in partnership with the West Acton Village Merchants Association, this event is the perfect place to find one-of-a-kind gifts and goodies.
Interested in selling your creations or household items? Vendor spaces are available for a small fee—limited tables, so don’t wait! Contact the church office at 978-263-5902 or [email protected].

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