List of Positives / assets about Southbridge

·       Celebrating our 200^th Year as a town, many 2016 activities planned and town-wide cleanup underway

 ·       QCC College and 2017 Expansion!!!

·       Industrial Park with new access road

·       The Southbridge Airport and with top national awards

·       The  Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center  and Southbridge Business Center complex.

·       The Jacob Edwards Library, recently celebrating its 100 years

·       The Optical Heritage Museum (sponsored by Zeiss)

·       Harrington Hospital (nationally award winning ), with new Cancer Center

·       New Jr. /  Sr. High School facility

·       AO Eyewear Sunglass Manufacturing, (recently moved its manufacturing back from China to Southbridge !!! )

·       "19th Century architecture" along main street  is largely preserved and a unique asset to our community

·       Cohasse Country club (formed in 1916)

·       Abundant clean Water reservoirs

·       Westville Dam recreational park

·        Southbridge Business Association (reformed 2016)  with support from Town administration

·       Town Services we sometimes take for granted: Full time Fire Dept & Police, Ambulance, clean water, widely available town Sewerage, trash pickup

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·       Banks, Post Office, Restaurants, shopping plazas, Churches,  diverse population

·       Planned reuse of Mary E Wells Jr High building as housing

·       WRTA Bus service / private taxi service

·        YMCA