Shrewsbury Awarded $45K For Senior Center Snow Removal Equipment

SHREWSBURY, MA — Shrewsbury was one of 17 municipalities to be awarded a grant in this round of the Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program. This round of grants in the Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program focused on helping municipalities curb the challenges of winter.

Shrewsbury was awarded $45,000 for the Shrewsbury Senior Center to provide residents with salt, buckets, and basic snow removal equipment – as well as new benches – to encourage safe winter walking.

Since the inception of the program in June of 2020, the Commonwealth has invested $21.1 million in municipal Shared Streets projects.

The Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program provides grants as small as $5,000 and as large as $500,000 for municipalities to quickly launch changes for safer walking, biking, public transit, recreation, commerce, and civic activities. These improvements can be intentionally temporary or can be pilots of potentially permanent changes. MassDOT is particularly focused on projects that respond to the current public health crisis and provide safe mobility for children, for elders, to public transportation, and to open space and parks.