About The Daily Westborough

The Daily Westborough is a community news site. We are dedicated to supplying neighbors with the news and information they want, to providing businesses with an effective way to reach their customers, and to making the community a better place to live.

The Daily Westborough is part of the growing family of Main Street Connect, a national community news company. Main Street Connect’s mission is empower local entrepreneurs to produce high-quality profitable community news sites and to knit those sites into a national communications network. Main Street Connect’s sites are about neighbors, by neighbors, for neighbors. The well-being and prosperity of our communities is our incessant concern.

Bret Matthew

Bret Matthew, the reporter for The Daily Northborough, grew up in Clinton and graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Politics. Before joining Main Street Connect, he freelanced for weekly newspapers in Clinton, Bolton and Harvard. Bret can be reached at bmatthew@mainstreetconnect.us.

Daniel Castro

Daniel Castro studied English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he wrote for various collegiate publications before going on to work as the Education/City reporter for The Gardner News. In 2010, he received the award for Best Sports Reporting from Central Mass Soccer Coaches for his coverage of the Wachusett boys and girls soccer teams.

Danielle Kahn

Danielle Kahn, the reporter for The Daily Westborough, was born and raised in Worcester. She recently graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a major in Journalism and a minor in Sociology. She enjoys reading, watching the Boston Bruins and covering Westborough. Email Danielle at dkahn@mainstreetconnect.us

Deborah E. Gauthier

Deborah Gauthier, reporter for The Daily Northbridge, grew up in the Blackstone Valley, graduated from Northbridge High School, attended Worcester State College, and holds a masters certificate in graphics and web design from American International College. She is married, has two daughters and six grandchildren. She has worked as a reporter for the Milford Daily News, reporter, copy editor and Sunday editor for the Woonsocket Call, managing editor for the Blackstone Valley Tribune, and copy editor, assistant opinion editor and Hopkinton Crier editor for MetroWest Daily News, owned by Gatehouse Media.

Jennifer Lord Paluzzi

Managing Editor Jennifer Lord Paluzzi is a Grafton resident who is seldom found without her camera. A graduate of Boston University's College of Communication, she spent most of her 25-year reporting and editing career at the MetroWest Daily News after stints at the Marlborough-Hudson Enterprise Sun, the Gardner News and the Boston Herald.

Jeremy Rice

Jeremy started his career as a reporter in high school, covering the brand new football team as a senior. He then attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a journalism major, working as a sports writer, and later sports editor, for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. After several years in the workforce, he got his start in professional journalism with CentralMassNews.com and MainStreetConnect. He now covers news in Grafton, Mass. and sports throughout the Central Massachusetts coverage area.

Lindsay Corcoran

Lindsay Corcoran, reporter for TheDailyShrewsbury.com, has spent most of her life in Central Massachusetts. She grew up in Hudson and attended the public schools there before heading off to The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. to obtain her bachelors in Journalism. She interned and freelanced at local newspapers throughout high school and college before launching TheDailyShrewsbury.com in 2010, shortly after graduating college. Email Lindsay at lcorcoran@mainstreetconnect.us.

Steve Balestrieri

Steve is a reporter for theDailyMillbury.com Prior to coming to Main Street Connect Massachusetts, he was a career military officer in the US Army Special Forces as well as Security Coordinator/Advisor for the film industry, traveling around the globe. Steve has attended Salem St. University in MA, Methodist University in NC and Trident Tech. in Charleston, SC. Steve has also written extensively for isportsweb.com, Boston Sports radio, and PatsFans.com covering the NFL, MLB and the NHL.

Tara Johnson

Tara Johnson, reporter for The Daily Auburn grew up in Central Massachusetts. She was intern for Time Inc. in New York City and a daily reporter for the Portsmouth Herald, a New Hampshire Seacoast community newspaper. In 2008, she moved to Florence, Italy to study abroad. During this time, she had the opportunity to hike through the Italian Riviera, bike the streets of Barcelona, eat French pastry in Paris and sleep on a houseboat in Amsterdam. In May of 2009, she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Journalism and a minor in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. She is thrilled to be a member of MainStreetConnect Team. You can reach her at tjohnson@mainstreetconnect.us