Author: Olivia Ruzic
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Natick residents reflect on $7m operating budget override a year later
Natick Center (photo by Olivia Ruzic). Last year’s Natick annual town election posed a seemingly impossible choice for its residents: Raise their real estate taxes by an average of $450 per year through a $7 million budget override, or sacrifice…
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Natick’s Natural and Synthetic Turf Field Study Group stays on course with sports fields research
Memorial Field, one of 3 artifical turf fields in Natick. After months of debate over how to best use turf fields in Natick, the town’s study group is making progress researching the pros and cons of artificial turf. The town…
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Natick residents hold onto hope in protest in solidarity with Minnesota
When Diane Holzheimer planned a short-notice, anti-ICE protest for a cold weekend, she wasn’t sure how many people would be able to make it out. But she was pleasantly surprised when 160-some of her neighbors from Natick and the surrounding…