The Downtown Village Association’s trip, sponsored by Olde Marlborough and the Marlborough Economic Development Corporation, was a success, according to City Councilors and downtown business owners. While comparing Haverhill’s downtown and Marlborough’s downtown is like comparing apples to oranges, the group feels that they came away with some great ideas on how to revitalize the downtown area here in town.
WMCT Reporter, Meaghann Mellen was on scene and you can catch her report on Marlborough This Week next weekend starting at 6pm on Friday.

The newly formed Downtown Village Association has been searching for a community somewhat similar to Marlborough that has been successful in revitalizing it’s downtown.  That community is Haverhill!

This Saturday, City Councilors and members of the Downtown Village Association will be traveling to Haverhill as guests to see all the wonderful work they have done to revitalize their downtown area.  WMCT’s Meaghann Mellen and Dan Guindon will be riding along too!  They will be back with a full report for Marlborough This Week and The Magazine!

Marlborough’s own Bobby Butler brings the AHL’s Calder Cup to the New England Sports Center:

WMCT-TV is now offering severe weather warnings in several locations; here on the website, our Facebook page (have you become our friend yet?) and during WMCT-TV programming.
“If we get word of severe weather heading our way we’ll run a scroll over any programming that is running,” said Program Director, Rob O’Keefe.
Such a situation came up last week with the tornado warning. The city wanted to let residents know that the public schools were being opened up as a shelter alternative. WMCT-TV was running a scroll over their programming to let viewers know.
“We also posted the news on our website and Facebook page for those who weren’t watching us at the time,” reported Executive Director Dan Guindon.
“We want to be there for the community in situations like these and it’s great to have that opportunity to do that through our viewership and web and Facebook,” added O’Keefe.

No, we didn’t do anything wrong!
Yesterday, Producer Mike Lawton chased down a story in Marlborough. A Funeral Home van, which transports flowers to and from funerals, was stolen from in front of the IC Church. The Marlborough Police gave chase and busted the suspect. We ran it on our Facebook page, our web site and on the air at WMCT-TV. Channel 7 ended up using Mike’s footage! Pretty cool, so we thought we’d mention it!

As part of Marlborough’s 350th Celebration and Labor Day Weekend festivities, a 60 year old time capsule was unearthed at the Marlborough Public Library.

On Thursday the 2nd of September Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bill Galvin, came to Marlborough and presented the Mayor with the original documents for the town’s founding and when it became a city. This was in honor of Marlborough’s 350th Celebration.

Thanks to a donation made by St Mary’s Credit Union, Marlborough will have fireworks on Labor Day Weekend!

Rob O’Keefe’s Footage:

The building just collapsed! Dan Guindon and Rob O’Keefe are working on getting that footage to us so we can put it on the web site. Stay tuned…