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Support from local businesses like Tama Sushi & Hibachi—and you—keep Natick Report cranking

August 19, 2026 by Bob Brown

TamaWe want to share public thanks to Tama Japanese Sushi & Hibachi in Natick for its continued advertising partnership with Natick Report.

Tama began supporting us this past spring and just re-upped through the rest of 2026, including sponsorship of our Natick restaurants page.

Natick Report generates revenue via ads from sponsors such as Page Waterman, The Residence at Natick South and Maverick Men’s Grooming Center, reader donations, and grants. We welcome paid ads from non-profits, too, and include among our supporters Wellesley Theatre Project and the Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club.

While we give many businesses and non-profits lots of free publicity, so to speak, when we write about them opening or being involved in various activities, we really appreciate it when organizations support us as well by advertising.

While many people are used to getting their news for free these days, we need your support to do continue doing what we do and expand our efforts. This is our actual job.

If we can help your organization share its story through paid advertising, please reach out: natickreport@gmail.com

Individuals can make tax-deductible donations to support our work, including through donor-advised funds. Our fiscal sponsor is Tiny News Collective (EIN 85-3963369).

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Natick Report goes over your head: Banner installed in Natick Center

July 28, 2026 by Bob Brown

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While Natick Report remains an online-only local news site, we have now technically entered the world of print with a Natick Center Cultural District banner flying high above Washington Street adjacent to the Morse Institute Library and facing Town Hall.

The few dozen new Natick Center Cultural District banners, which feature flowers and a depiction of the Natick Common gazebo, were installed earlier this month by the Department of Public Works and Fire Department.

Ours reads: “Natick Report: Your local news source.”

If we can encourage a handful of readers to pose under the banner and share your pics at natickreport@gmail.com, we’d love to publish them.

 

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Thank you to Natick Report’s BU Newsroom spring semester writers for lots of great news stories

May 28, 2026 by Bob Brown

Natick Report just wrapped up our third semester partnering with Boston University on their BU Newsroom program: journalism students are assigned to local news sites like ours to get real word experience reporting.

We were fortunate to get paired with three talented students and their teachers. Here’s a sampling of stories they covered.

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  • Group still hopeful Natick will re-examine its town government structure
  • Lunar New Year family event in Natick ties together crafts, community, and culture

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  • Natick Academy of Performing Arts and Whitney Place residents create a bond across generations (with Saanvi Haridas)
  • Natick residents reflect on $7m operating budget override a year later
  • MBTA opens long-awaited trail connection to Natick Center station

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Survey: Share your thoughts on Natick Report

May 5, 2026 by Bob Brown

We’ve created a short survey to ask our readers what they think about Natick Report, the independent local news site that we’ve been running since 2020.

The aim of the survey is to give us direction on making Natick Report more useful—and to explore ways to make our operation more financially sustainable.

We initially shared the survey with the 2,300 subscribers to our free weekday email newsletter, but figured we should open it to all of you.

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