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5 Things You Need To Know Today: Feb. 27

Flyers playoff hockey victory, measles update, Christa McAuliffe remembrance event, family math night and Planning Board public hearings featured in today's column.

1. Congrats to the Framingham High School boys hockey team, seeded #13 in the MIAA Division 1 South hockey tourney, for defeating the defending Division 1 South champions from Marshfield High Wednesday night 5-2 at Gallo Arena in Bourne. 

The Flyers will now play Franklin on Saturday, March 1 at Gallo Arena. The time has yet to be determined.

Framingham Patch will have a slideshow from the Flyers victory over #4-seeded Marshfield later today from Cummings Photography.

2. Grade 8 scholars from the Christa McAuliffe Regional Public Charter School will showcase their learning about current space research topics while the Framingham-based school celebrates as the legacy of Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Crew tonight at the 4th Annual Christa McAuliffe Remembrance event from 6 to 7:30.

3. Dunning Elementary School is holding a family math night from 6:30 to 8 tonight. 

4. Framingham Public Library's and Framingham State University's Lifelong Learning Lecture Series continues tonight with Teaching Nutrition: From Framingham to the West Bank at 7 at the main Framingham Library. Framingham State University food and nutrition professor Susan Massad, who recently was given a Fulbright Special Grant to study and teach at Al-Quds University in Palestine, will share her insights about the agricultural and food policy system in Palestine.The lecture is free.

5. The Framingham Planning Board is scheduled to meet tonight at 7 in the Ablondi room in the Memorial Building. On the agenda is public hearings for the Galaxy Development (24 Blandin Ave.), Collin Farm Subdivision (505 Pleasant St.), Framingham branch library at 746 Water St. and a project at 498 Concord St.

In case you missed it: A patient was treated for measles at the Harvard Vanguard medical offices on Feb. 17, according to the Wellesley Community and Public Health Services. The person is one of two confirmed measles cases in Framingham reported this week.


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