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Last chance to vote for your favorite scarecrow

Sunday, Oct. 25 is the deadline to vote for your favorites in the Mendon Cultural Council’s third-annual Scarecrow Contest. Take a swing around town this weekend to check them out in person or click through the photos below then cast your votes.

Mendon’s Troop 1 marks a century of service and adventure

Last weekend’s camporee at the Inman Hill conservation area was more than a celebration of 100 years of scouting in Mendon, it was an opportunity to reflect on a tradition that has endured over the generations and a reminder to those gathered that they were carrying the legacy into the future.

“ … tonight, as…

Has Michael Tougias got a story for you!

New York Times best-selling author and Mendon resident Michael Tougias recently published his latest book, a harrowing account of three men who survived 28 hours in open water after their boat sunk 12 miles from shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The trio endured eight-foot waves, jellyfish stings, hypothermia, circling sharks – and less than…

Fifty years in, Mendon’s fall fair tradition endures

Exactly half a century has passed since Mendon’s first annual country fair, and while COVID and bad weather sidelined it a few times and organizers have recently narrowed its scope, the fair remains a local tradition and signature event for the Lions Club. This year’s fair will be Saturday, Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to…

Ready, set, stuff: Scarecrow contest to begin soon

The annual Mendon Cultural Council Scarecrow Contest kicks off Oct. 4 and this year, organizers will level the corn, er, playing field by offering two categories: family/individual and municipal/business. “We realized that it’s not fair that a 10-year old kid or a 12-year-old kid competes against a business,” Cultural Council Chair Joanne Lamothe said. The…

Please touch the touch-me-nots this fall

Spotted touch-me-nots, or jewelweeds, are truly a gem for your yard and garden. You probably have them, but might have pulled them out thinking it was a weed. It is a native that supports monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, bumblebees, ladybugs and more. I have seen all of these creatures on the plants in our yard. The…

Daniels Farmstead preserves history with eye to the future

Stretching up through the centuries from Colonial times to the early 1990s, 10 generations of the Daniels family made a life and a living at 286 Mendon St. in Blackstone. They farmed the land and raised dairy cows, grew apples and operated a cider mill.

Mendon Police Family Services Unit aims for intervention before crisis

A police response to a home where a domestic dispute is escalating often leads to an arrest and criminal charges.

And behavioral health crises and substance-related emergencies increasingly strain police resources, including in Mendon, where mental health calls have doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Police Chief David Kurczy.

Paulie’s Push honors 9/11 flight crews

For the second time in two years, retired United Airlines flight attendant Paul Veneto pushed a beverage cart along Route 16 on his route from Boston to the Ground Zero site in New York, where terrorists flew two airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Plenty of fun aboard at cardboard boat race

From feats of marine engineering that sliced cleanly through the waters of Lake Nipmuc to cursed vessels that sunk at the start line, Monday’s 26th Annual Taft Public Library Cardboard Boat Race saw victories, defeats and, well, boatloads of soggy cardboard.

Here are some highlights of the events and the full list of award winners:

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