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🌱 Patch AM: How Holliston is honoring recovery and helping residents this September
Coming up: Advocates See Me 5K Run, Walk, and Roll on the Holliston Patch calendar
Hey hey Holliston! Your one-stop source for local news is here. Continue reading for all the updates. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Holliston is honoring recovery and helping residents this September
- How a Holliston teen turned pollinator passion into a creative project
Also on today's calendar: Advocates See Me 5K Run, Walk, and Roll and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why did the fish blush ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Monday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 78 and low of 55 degrees.
- Tuesday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 80, low: 58.
- Wednesday: Cloudy, with a high of 74 and low of 68 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Recognizing National Recovery Month in Holliston (hollistonreporter.com) — Holliston is marking National Recovery Month with purple flags at First Congregational Church, an interfaith recovery service on September 23, and new support funded by opioid settlement dollars. Local residents affected by substance use can seek help through the Community Action Fund and Holliston Youth & Family Services, and are invited to share loved ones' stories and connect with HDAAC for year-round recovery support. 
• The Buzz Project (hollistonreporter.com) — A Holliston High School junior is helping lead the Buzz Pollinator Project, a youth-driven effort using theater, music, and technology to promote pollinator conservation in Holliston and Hopkinton. Working through Imagine Corps, the three-student team created a variety show, a pollinator garden app, and community events to turn environmental awareness into hands-on local action.
📸 Around Holliston
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Holliston
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★ Featured events ★
- Advocates See Me 5K Run, Walk, and Roll →
Hopkinton State Park, 164 Cedar St, Hopkinton
8:30 am - Nipmuc Open House →
Nipmuc Rod & Gun Club, 88 Fiske Mill Rd, Upton
12:00 pm - Sudbury PMC Kids Ride (all riders welcome!) →
Ephraim Curtis Middle School, 22 Pratts Mill Rd, Sudbury
10:00 am - Miles For Mutts 5k →
Curtis Middle School, 22 Pratts Mill Rd, Sudbury
10:00 am
Saturday September 19
Sunday September 20
Saturday October 3
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Other local events
- Allegra Commonwealth Singers Guest Nights →
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 3 Maple St, Framingham
7:00 pm - Board of Assessors, Room 105 →
Holliston MA
8:00 am - YMCA Project ABC Playgroup →
Holliston Public Library, 752 Washington St, Holliston
11:00 am - Farm Day Party! →
Boston Honey Company, 45 Chestnut St, Holliston
10:00 am - Allegra Commonwealth Singers →
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 3 Maple St, Framingham
7:00 pm - Begonia and Gesneriad Show and Sale →
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, 11 French Dr, Boylston
10:00 am - Free Community Dinner →
600 Central St, Holliston
5:00 pm - Allegra Commonwealth Singers Guest Nights →
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 3 Maple St, Framingham
7:00 pm
Monday September 7
Tuesday September 8
Sunday September 13
Monday September 14
Saturday September 19
Monday September 21
📣 Holliston Shout Outs!
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Albertsons Company posted a job opening for Receiver - Inventory Control Clerk in Ashland. Apply here.
- Roche Bros. Supermarkets, Inc. posted a job opening for Meat Clerk in Millis. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Holliston here.
🗞 Nearby News
Hopkinton
- Manufacturing Technician I - DGN Technologies - Hopkinton, MA, US (dice.com)
Framingham
- Eastern men's soccer holds off Farmingdale; UConn men's soccer rolls past Fisher College (thechronicle.com)
- More upcoming work on Green and Orange lines as MBTA plans partial shutdowns (masslive.com)
- The Lindsay Clancy trial ended with a deadlocked jury. The real failure came before it even began. (bostonglobe.com)
Natick
- Your 2026 Natick Fall Annual Town Meeting lineup (natickreport.com)
- Central Mass. by the Numbers, Sunday, Sept. 6 (telegram.com)
Ok Holliston! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: It saw the ocean's bottom! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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