More than you really want to know about Natick, Mass.
The public is invited to visit 7 local artists at their Natick home studios on Studio Sunday, Sept. 18 from 11am-5pm.
Ryan Black • 203 Union St.
Virginia Fitzgerald • 25 Washington Ave.
David Kahn • 17 Fox Hill Dr.
Carol Krentzman • 97 Woodland St.
Barbara Levine • 30 South St.
Stephen Strout • 9 Nolin St.
Carolyn Williams • 25 Washington Ave.
We’ve collected information about many of Natick’s charitable & community groups in one place.
Some, like the Natick Service Council and A Place to Turn, might be more well known than others on the list.
What’s missing? What’s outdated? Please help us keep this list useful: natickreport@gmail.com
The Erica Ball Community Gardens in Natick is off to a good start during its first summer season: Plants are bearing fruit, vegetables, and flowers.
We swung by this morning, before temps got too high, to take in the lush new gardens, a combination of 40 raised beds and in-ground plots located behind Natick Housing Authority at 72 South Main St.
We discovered lots of tomato plants, most with green or light red tomatoes, plus peppers, squash, and strawberries.
Also, the 10-foot-high tree stump carving by chainsaw artist Michael Legassey is complete. Gone was the scaffolding from our last visit during the spring.
In addition to the Erica Ball Community Gardens, the Town of Natick operates three other organic community gardens for residents to grow food recreationally and supplementally during the spring and summer months.
Gardeners can use their plots from April to September. Gardeners must reapply every year, but existing members are given priority. Plot fees are due each year and are $75. There are a select number of low-cost plots available to residents for $50. Residents are encouraged to provide their own seeds and tools, but water access and seasonal tool storage is available at each garden.
Questions about the community gardens program can be directed to the Community Gardens Coordinator at communitygardens@natickma.org or by calling 508-647-6400 ext. 2013.
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The Natick Select Board will hold in-person office hours on Thursday, June 23, 9am-10am, at the Community-Senior Center, 117 E. Central Street. Residents may speak to Select Board member Mike Hickey on a walk-in, first-come/first-serve basis. Residents may ask questions, give input, and share concerns about Town operations, economic development, and other issues.
Select Board office hours will continue to be held twice per month. On the first Thursday of each month, meetings will be held either at Town Hall or online via Zoom from 6-7pm. On the fourth Thursday, meetings will take place from 9am-10am at the Community-Senior Center. The in-person meetings may be attended on a walk-in, first-come/first-serve basis.
The Select Board has scheduled additional office hours meetings through 2022. Select Board members will rotate through the schedule.
For more information, call the Select Board office at (508) 647-6410.
Local teens are invited to bring their voices to a community reading of Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech, “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Sign up to be a reader using this form.
The reading will take place on Sunday, June 26 at 6:00pm on the front steps of the Morse Institute Library in Natick. Each teen will then have the opportunity to read 1-3 paragraphs from the speech, which is about thirty minutes in total. The event will be filmed by local cable station Natick Pegasus.
This event is free and open to the public, co-hosted by the Natick Historical Society and Natick for Black Lives Matter. Please practice social distancing, and bring your own chair or blanket. Bathrooms at the Morse Institute Library will NOT be open.
This event is inspired by the Mass Humanities Reading Frederick Douglass program.
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