Massachusetts Beautification Bulletin | October 24, 2025

Dear Friend,

With the onset of daylight savings time looming on the horizon, we all know that the dark days of late Autumn will be here soon. But that doesn't mean it's too late to get out and lend a hand to clean up in your community before the snows begin to fly. Scroll down to join a cleanup event and learn about this year's crop of Plant Something Bee-autiful grantees.

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We are pleased to announce our 2025 crop of Plant Something Bee-eautiful grantees.

Our Plant Something Bee-eautiful (PSB) program not only beautifies public spaces, but also restores natural habitats for pollinators. Funding for this program is made possible by a generous sponsorship of $10,000 from Edrington, a purveyor of distilled spirits.

Congratulations to our 2025 PSB grantees:

Amesbury Public Library: $1,500 to plant a pollinator garden containing native plants on the east side of the library
Ashburnham Pollinator Meadow Committee: $500 to create a pollinator meadow and bordering path in Winchester Park, featuring plants native to Worcester County
Keep Attleboro Beautiful: $1,500 to plant a new 500-square-foot pollinator garden on the former site of a golf course that is now Highland Park
Becket Arts Center: $500 to transform a central public space into a blooming, biodiverse habitat for pollinators and a source of beauty and learning for the Becket community
Boston Public Schools (Wild Ones): $500 to plant a new native flower garden featuring locally grown native plants, educational signage, and student tools and materials
Easthampton Bee City Initiative: $500 to create a new pollinator garden alongside the Manhan Rail Trail adjacent to Lower Mill Pond
Fairhaven Sustainability Committee: $500 to plant a new pollinator garden at Macomber Pimental Park
Keep Wakefield Beautiful: $1,500 to plant pollinator-friendly trees at five public school campuses
The Taylor School in Foxboro: $500 to create a woodland edge pollinator and bird habitat for a therapeutic classroom
Westfield State University: $500 to transform a quarter-acre campus lawn into a native meadow filled with diverse native perennials and grasses
Worcester State University: $500 to expand the Teaching Garden, an outdoor classroom that serves as an urban oasis, while also providing pollinators with pollen and nectar
Wrentham Housing Authority: $1,500 to create a 440-square-foot pollinator-friendly garden that will provide essential habitat while also connecting residents with nature and gardening

Congratulations to this year’s grantees, and we look forward to seeing the fruits of your labor!

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Quotable: “No one can do everything, but everybody can do something.”

— Max Lucado, author of Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference

Volunteers from Clean Up Everett

KMB Chapter News: Welcome to Clean Up Everett

We're pleased to announce that Clean Up Everett has joined our family of 42 local Keep Massachusetts Beautiful chapters. Clean Up Everett is a volunteer-led organization committed to enhancing the city's environmental health in collaboration with municipal leaders, the Everett Department of Public Works, and local businesses. If you’d like to bring a local KMB chapter to your community, watch our video overview.

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Join a Fall Litter Cleanup

Take in the beautiful fall foliage while you lend a hand to keep your community litter-free this fall. Here is a partial list of upcoming events, but check our event calendar for more details.

October 25: Keep Natick Beautiful Route 135 Cleanup
November 1: Yarmouth Community Cleanup & Coastsweep
November 1: Keep Plainville Beautiful Fall Cleanup
November 1: Keep Holden Beautiful Fall Cleanup
November 1: Keep Wakefield Beautiful Fall Cleanup on the Rail Trail
November 1-5: Marsh Island Cleanup in Fair Haven
November 1-15: Keep Mansfield Beautiful Fall Cleanup

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Keep Barnstable Beautiful Volunteers

KMB Kudos: Keep Barnstable Beautiful

We’d like to offer “KMB kudos” to the 32 volunteers from Keep Barnstable Beautiful who removed 52 bags of litter from the streets of Hyannis, Centerville, and Marstons Mills on October 18.

The volunteer groups included students from Barnstable High School, Coast Guard Junior ROTC, Cape Cod Academy Cleanup Crew, and the Barnstable High School National Honor Society. A special shoutout to State Rep. Steve Xiarhos for stopping by for a live video broadcast and doing his part to clean up the town.

Volunteers from Topo Athletic

Company Community Service: Topo Athletic

It was a picture-perfect New England fall day in Framingham on October 3, as volunteers from Topo Athletic joined us for a Company Community Service Cleanup in Framingham.

Together, we removed approximately 1,000 pounds of trash and debris from an area that suffers from a good deal of illegal dumping. Thank you to our Topo Athletic volunteers!

If your company is seeking a meaningful and fun community service experience, learn more about our Company Community Service Cleanup program.

We’re Hiring: We’re seeking an energetic person to grow and manage our Company Community Service Cleanup program. This is a part-time seasonal position that is busiest in the spring and fall. Email us for more details.

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Thank you for reading our newsletter and please contact me if I can answer any questions you may have about our programs, launching a local KMB chapter in your community, or sponsorship opportunities.

Sincerely,

Neil Rhein, Founder & Executive Director

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