Kaylyn, as the community engagement manager for the City of Attleboro, focuses on building connections with Attleboro residents and stakeholders through communication and partnerships.  She creates programing to promote and activate locations in Attleboro as well as building engagement to support Attleboro residents, businesses, and neighbors.  Specifically, she has implemented a communication chain to residents using a monthly newsletter on the City's website and uses social media to provide updates daily.  The postings on social media vary in content from events happening in the City, to updates from City departments to opportunities available.  She has also created and manages a biweekly email update to City stakeholders.  Email updates include event dates and times to discourage groups of events on the same day and resource information to share with clients/customers.  She also acts as a liaison to community organizers, business owners and City Hall to provide information when needed.

 

Prior to working for the City of Attleboro, Kaylyn was the Senior Program Coordinator for Operation Homefront from 2019 to 2022.  She was also a University Events Intern for Bridgewater State University from 2018-2019, and prior to that was a Bookkeeping & Marketing Intern for Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company from 2012 through 2019.

 

Upcoming events that Kaylyn is helping coordinate in the City of Attleboro include:

Restaurant Week (March 1 through March 10) - participating restaurants include Kimochi, Boro Bagels, Pinku, Bliss Dairy, Chubs Blue Pig BBQ, Wetherlaine's, Don and Gigi's, Cafe Locale, Colonel Blackinton Inn, El Azteca, Four Seasons, and Burgundian.

Attleboro Art Museum Flower Show (March 21 - March 23)

Spring Fling - Downtown Attleboro (April 20)

Mayor's Wag & Walk at Highland Park (June 8)

 

For updated calendar of events please visit the City of Attleboro's website at https://www.cityofattleboro.us/calendar.aspx?CID=48

 

 

 

 

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Fun facts - City of Attleboro:

Like many communities in Massachusetts, Attleboro was named by its earliest residents for a town they left behind in England. The territory it occupies today was first settled in 1634, a mere 13 years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth. The Town of Attleborough was incorporated in 1694 from part of Rehoboth known as the North Purchase.

Until 1745, Attleborough included what now is Cumberland, Rhode Island. Another original part of the town, North Attleborough, became a separate community by voter referendum in 1887. Attleboro became a city in 1914 and with that change in its form of government, dropped the final "ugh" from its name.

• 1634 The first English settlers arrive in the territory that is present day Attleboro
• 1669 John Woodcock establishes a small family settlement and tavern in North Attleborough that will later come under native American attack during King Philip's War (1675-76)
• 1680 For the first time, settlers hire a teacher to instruct local boys in reading and writing
• 1694 Attleborough is incorporated as a town from a portion of Rehoboth known as the North Purchase
• 1696 The first Attleborough town meeting on record is held
• 1698 Attleborough appoints its first schoolmaster and the following year hires a teacher to instruct both boys and girls to "read English, and write, and cast accounts"
• 1714 Construction of the town's First Congregational Church meetinghouse, in North Attleborough, is completed
• 1743 Work begins on the town's Second Congregational Church meetinghouse, in Attleborough, and Reverend Peter Thacher is elected minister
• 1745 The present day town of Cumberland is taken from Attleborough and annexed to the Colony of Rhode Island by Royal Charter
• 1768 Attleborough town meeting votes to authorize the building of a powder house for safe keeping of the town's stock of ammunition
• 1773 Town meeting voters adopt a statement asserting that their rights are given by nature, but are being violated by the British Crown
• 1776 Members of a town committee instruct Attleborough's representative to the Massachusetts General Court, Captain John Stearns, that if the Continental Congress votes for independence from Great Britain, they will defend the decision "with our lives and fortunes"
• 1779 Attleborough sends three representatives to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in Cambridge
• 1780 A settler known as "the Frenchman" establishes a brass working forge in North Attleborough village, giving birth to the button-making and jewelry industries in town
• 1781 Colonel David Cobb, a native of Attleborough, is appointed aide de camp to Gen. George Washington of the Continental Army
• 1809 Attleborough Manufacturing Co., operated by the Dodge family, opens a cotton textile factory and later builds Dodgeville to provide housing, a school and a store for its workers and their families
• 1812 Atherton Manufacturing Co., later Hebron Manufacturing Co., begins production of textiles at what will become Hebronville, a village of tenement housing for mill employees and their families
• 1825 Town meeting decides that Attleborough should purchase an almshouse for the poor, which opens two years later
• 1827 Col. Willard Blackinton establishes a business that makes power loom shuttles for textile manufacturers
• 1827 Attleborough voters authorize selectmen to seek proposals for a town meeting house, which is built in 1828 at a cost of $80
• 1845 Two people are killed when the Attleborough almshouse on Watery Hill is destroyed by fire
• 1855 Nearly 25 jewelry, medal and button manufacturers are operating in Attleborough
• 1856 For the first time, a study committee recommends that due to rapidly growing but separate population centers, Attleborough and North Attleborough be divided into two towns, but no vote is taken
• 1857 The Attleborough Weekly Bulletin begins publication as the town's first newspaper, but goes out of business within a year
• 1857 The town's first Roman Catholic church, Saint Mary's, is built in North Attleborough
• 1861-1865 Hundreds of Attleborough men serve in the Civil War - mainly in the 7th, 18th, 24th, 26th, 40th, 47th and 58th Massachusetts infantry regiments - with town meeting voters approving $100 bounties for voluntary enlistments and aid payments to soldiers' families
• 1870 The textile mills at Dodgeville and Hebronville now operate under the common ownership of Hebron Manufacturing Co.
• 1871 A new weekly newspaper, The Attleborough Chronicle, is published for the first time
• 1875 The Attleborough Advocate begins weekly publication and 14 years later becomes The Attleborough Daily Sun
• 1884 Construction of the town's first high schools - at Bank and Peck Streets in Attleborough and on High Street in North Attleborough - is completed 18 years after the town meeting vote establishing them
• 1885 The town's second Roman Catholic church, Saint John's in Attleborough, is dedicated by Bishop Hendricken of Providence
• 1886 Attleborough's first theatre, Bates Opera House, opens its doors at Park and North Main Streets
• 1887 By 23 votes of more than 1,300 ballots cast, the town's voters approve a referendum dividing Attleborough and North Attleborough into separate communities
• 1898 The Great Fire sweeps through Attleborough, devastating four acres of the downtown area, destroying more than a dozen businesses and factories valued at more than $750,000, and leaving 1,500 people out of work.