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Southbridge Approves $112,913 Community Center Hood Overhaul, Replacing Prior Contract

SOUTHBRIDGE — May 13, 2026 — Southbridge DPW subcommittee approves $112,913 community center hood overhaul and endorses flat utility budgets. The Joint DPW Subcommittee and Town Council voted unanimously Wednesday on all items at their May 13 meeting, replacing a prior $55,000 kitchen hood contract with Singer Kittredge with a

Southbridge Town Council Awards $705,300 Paving Contract, Enters Executive Session on Overdue Minutes

SOUTHBRIDGE — May 11, 2026 — Southbridge Town Council awards $705,300 road contract, confronts open meeting law backlog at Monday session. The nine-member council unanimously approved a paving and sidewalk repair contract with M. El Palo and Sons Paving for the North Street neighborhood, funded by Community Development Block Grant

Southbridge Subcommittee Forwards $6.27 Million in FY 2027 Public Safety Budgets

Southbridge's public safety subcommittee advanced $6.27 million in FY 2027 budgets and approved eleven mid-year transfers Thursday.

Southbridge Conservation Commission May 7 Meeting Produces No Reportable Record

SOUTHBRIDGE — May 7, 2026 — Southbridge Conservation Commission's May 7 meeting cannot be reported from available audio. The transcript produced by automatic speech recognition from Southbridge's community access TV recording is almost entirely unintelligible, containing no recoverable speaker names, vote tallies, dollar amounts, motion language, or coherent

Southbridge "Other Committee" Meeting Transcript Yields No Reportable Municipal Business

A May 7, 2026 Southbridge committee recording produced no reportable municipal content. The submission, labeled only "Other Committee," yielded a transcript of three short, incoherent passages that name no speakers, no agenda items, no dollar amounts, and no votes.

Southbridge Subcommittee Approves $705,300 Paving Bid and $325,000 Sewer Transfer

SOUTHBRIDGE — May 6, 2026 — Southbridge's Joint Planning and Development Subcommittee unanimously approved more than $1.15 million in infrastructure actions Wednesday, anchored by a $705,300 paving contract and a $325,000 sewer fund transfer. The subcommittee accepted a bid from M.L. Partlow & Sons Paving to

Southbridge Planning Board Holds May 6 Meeting; No Actions Can Be Confirmed

SOUTHBRIDGE — May 6, 2026 — Southbridge Planning Board's May 6 meeting produced no verifiable record of action. The sole available source — a community access TV recording rendered through automatic speech recognition — yielded a transcript of fragmented, largely incoherent audio containing no speaker names, no dollar figures, no motion language,

No headlines can be responsibly generated without recoverable meeting content.

SOUTHBRIDGE — April 30, 2026 — No brief can be produced. The April 30, 2026 Southbridge Conservation Commission transcript submitted for this assignment contains no recognizable municipal meeting content and cannot be reported on without a corrected source.

Southbridge Council Approves Four Firefighter Hires Amid Ongoing Overtime Budget Crunch

SOUTHBRIDGE — April 27, 2026 — Southbridge Town Council honors fatal-fire heroes, fills four firefighter vacancies, and approves $132,000 in emergency budget transfers. Fire Chief Paul Darminden presented Heroic Action Awards to Lieutenant Christopher Wilson and Firefighter Thomas Edwards for entering a burning structure with zero visibility to rescue a

Southbridge Liquor Board Issues Warning to Mackey's Bar, Orders Midnight Closing

Southbridge Liquor Board unanimously finds Mackey's Bar and Grill responsible for a February 25 disturbance and orders a midnight service cutoff.

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