{"id":636915,"date":"2026-05-11T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:05:08","slug":"black-bear-spotted-near-busy-road-in-shrewsbury-safely-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636915\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Spotted Near Busy Road In Shrewsbury Safely Relocated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHREWSBURY, MA \u2014 Local first responders teamed up on Sunday morning after a young black bear was seen wandering through busy parts of town.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby stopped at the Shrewsbury Fire Department early on Sunday morning to report that he had seen a lone black bear crossing in front of Station No. 3 on Centech Boulevard and heading into the woods. <\/p>\n<p>Just a few hours later, a black bear was also seen roaming 1000 Boston Tpke. Plaza. <\/p>\n<p>Shrewsbury fire and police, along with the Massachusetts Environmental Police, teamed up to safely relocate the animal. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"27157682-1778507018\" data-image=\"27157682-1778507018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/shrewsbury.bear.jpg\" data- \/>Local first responders teamed up to safely relocate a black bear who was seen roaming on busy roads in Shrewsbury on Sunday. (Shrewsbury Fire Department) <\/p>\n<p>The bear was eventually tranquilized on Walnut Street between Route 9 and Route 20. He was loaded for transport with his body temperature kept cool with bags of ice. <\/p>\n<p>Shrewsbury fire said the bear was transferred to a rural area, so it will not pose a risk to high-traffic areas. <\/p>\n<p>Officials believe the bear is at the age when young bears typically separate from their mothers and begin roaming on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHREWSBURY, MA \u2014 Local first responders teamed up on Sunday morning after a young black bear was seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-636915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}