Mayor J. Christian Dumais promoted Battalion Chief Michael Peckham to Assistant Fire Chief of Operations, filling the role left vacant by Chief Gogan, city hall announced. The move comes as Marlborough Patch reports "Marlborough Fire Department Honors 9 Firefighters With Anniversaries,"…

The Navy awarded Raytheon's Marlborough facility a $271 million contract for missile systems work, federal records show. The award, dated Monday, Aug. 3, is among the largest federal defense contracts tied to the city in recent memory. Marlborough Patch reports that residents and local …

Marlborough's City Hall filed a formal notice extending the Community Choice Power Supply Program through January 2027. The filing, posted under Mayor J. Christian Dumais's office, formalizes the discounted electricity rate for aggregation customers that the city announced last month, t…

S&P Global issued a new credit rating tied to Marlborough's 2026 bond anticipation notes Saturday, the day's most concrete city-finance news. The review, surfaced in an Aug. 1 Google Alert, will help set the interest rate the city pays as it borrows for capital projects, though S&P Glob…