![SHIRLEY – After weeks of construction upheaval along Main and Front streets, the downtown area is looking notably better than it did before, thanks to government grant money and local elbow grease. Specifically, near-completed sidewalk and roadway replacements and repairs, funded in part by government grants, and a successful grass-roots clean-up effort in the downtown […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/low-l-roads-1.jpg?w=117 "SHIRLEY – After weeks of construction upheaval along Main and Front streets, the downtown area is looking notably better than it did before, thanks to government grant money and local elbow grease. Specifically, near-completed sidewalk and roadway replacements and repairs, funded in part by government grants, and a successful grass-roots clean-up effort in the downtown […]")
Backed by grants and local gusto, Shirley downtown on the upswing
SHIRLEY – After weeks of construction upheaval along Main and Front streets, the downtown area is looking notably better than it did before, thanks to government grant money and local...
![SHIRLEY – If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe not, but it can certainly do significant damage, as a massive old oak tree did when it fell on several graves at the historic Center Cemetery in March, knocking headstones off their bases. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/low-l-stone1-1.jpg?w=117 "SHIRLEY – If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe not, but it can certainly do significant damage, as a massive old oak tree did when it fell on several graves at the historic Center Cemetery in March, knocking headstones off their bases. […]")
![SHIRLEY – THRIVE Cultivation and Dispensary, LLC, a start-up that aims to grow and sell marijuana from an envisioned new facility on Lancaster Road came a step closer to doing business here when the Board of Selectmen voted last week to sign two host community agreements (HCA), hammered out over the last few months with […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Marijuana_Banking_59967-1-1.jpg?w=132 "SHIRLEY – THRIVE Cultivation and Dispensary, LLC, a start-up that aims to grow and sell marijuana from an envisioned new facility on Lancaster Road came a step closer to doing business here when the Board of Selectmen voted last week to sign two host community agreements (HCA), hammered out over the last few months with […]")
![Two weeks into the school year, with some students back at their desks most mornings and logged in from home in the afternoon, and others on an all-remote track, the new hybrid learning model the Ayer Shirley Regional School District’s “remote academy” received mixed reviews during an online forum for parents and guardians Monday night. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NVV-096.jpg?w=132 "Two weeks into the school year, with some students back at their desks most mornings and logged in from home in the afternoon, and others on an all-remote track, the new hybrid learning model the Ayer Shirley Regional School District’s “remote academy” received mixed reviews during an online forum for parents and guardians Monday night. […]")
![AYER – Just in time for upcoming holiday seasons – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas – the little thrift shop that could is gearing up for a grand re-opening this Saturday. Housed in a clean, roomy, bright basement space next door to St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Shirley Street, the shop was shuttered in March due to […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/low-l-reopening-1.jpg?w=117 "AYER – Just in time for upcoming holiday seasons – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas – the little thrift shop that could is gearing up for a grand re-opening this Saturday. Housed in a clean, roomy, bright basement space next door to St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Shirley Street, the shop was shuttered in March due to […]")
![DEVENS – The senior housing development on Hospital Road that MassDevelopment rolled out project plans for a couple of years ago is now fully functional, partially occupied and filling up fast. Construction that began in May, 2019 was completed earlier this year. The new community – aptly named Shirley Meadows — is housed in a […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/low-l-meadows4-1.jpg?w=117 "DEVENS – The senior housing development on Hospital Road that MassDevelopment rolled out project plans for a couple of years ago is now fully functional, partially occupied and filling up fast. Construction that began in May, 2019 was completed earlier this year. The new community – aptly named Shirley Meadows — is housed in a […]")