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5 Things You Need To Know Today: Feb. 27

Healthy heart fair at YMCA, Framingham Police Chief offered 3-year contract, NASA's Apollo project division leader speaking at library tonight and more featured in today's column.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation. 1. The MetroWest YMCA is holding a free Healthy Heart Fair & Cardiovascular screening today from 3-7 p.m. Learn your numbers for cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose, BMI, receive your Framingham Risk Score and discuss results with medical experts. Learn about health and well-being programs the MetroWest YMCA and MetroWest Medical Center offer to help keep your heart healthy and other preventative care opportunities. Sponsors suggest calling to schedule an appointment. The event is targeted to men and women ages 35-65. 2. Town Manager Bob Halpin has informed Framingham Police Chief Steven Carl, …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today: Feb. 26

Best selling author Jodi Picoult will be in Framingham tonight to speak about her newest book The Storyteller. Framingham Selectmen and School Committee are meeting tonight, too.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation. 1. New York Times best selling author Jodi Picoult has a new book, so that means a visit to Framingham. Picoult puts Framingham on her book tour stop each time she launches a new book. Thanks to Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Shoppers World, Picoult will be speaking for free at Walsh Middle School tonight at 7. Attendees can purchase her latest book at the event, and Picoult will sign it. Picoult writes on her website: "Boy, am I looking forward to hearing readers’ reactions to this book. It’s different. Grueling. There’s no trial. A third of it takes place over seventy years ago. There’s a Gothic…

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Library Hosted After Hours Literary Scavenger Hunt For Teens

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Teens and Tweens Homework Center at the main Framingham Library, students participated in an after-hours literary scavenger hunt.

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Teens and Tweens Homework Center at the main Framingham Library, 15-20 students participated in an after-hours literary scavenger hunt. Homework Center Coodinator Judy Gatlin organized the event. Gatlin and the tutors created the 50-question literary scavenger hunt worksheet. Young Adult Librarian Marcy Maiorana, who wrote the grant to create the homework center, Gatlin, and Assistant Library Director Jane Peck were chaperones for the after-hours scavenger hunt. Te Framingham Library received a $15,000 federal grant in 2012, to establish a homework center for the town's tweens and teens school students. The Center, located on the main level of the main library, has dedicated computers with a …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today: Jan. 25

True brain fitness program, McMurphy's to rock the Framingham Elks, geopolitics discussion at Temple Beth Sholom and Framingham graduate marched in inauguration parade.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation. 1. Temple Beth Sholom will present UN, A Prime Minister and a President tonight at 7:30. The lecture features Jeffrey Robbins, chair of the New England Anti-Defamation League. He will speak on the the impact of the United Nation's recognition of Palestine as a non-member state on Israel and the United States.  As a U.S. delegate to the United Nation's human rights commission in Geneva, he is uniquely suited to offer insights into geopolitics.  2. The McMurphys, a band for more than 20 years, will perform at the Framingham Lodge of Elks, from 7 to 11 p.m. The repertoire ranges from oldies to …

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UPDATED: 5 Things You Need To Know Today: Dec. 11

Selectmen and Board of Health scheduled to meet, Framingham Library fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen and Godspell auditions all featured in today's column.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation. 1. Framingham Selectmen are scheduled to meet tonight at 7 in the Memorial Building. It is a short agenda. On tap is renewal of licenses and a report on the resident pilot parking study evaluation. 2. The Framingham Public Library is holding a fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen in Natick. Bring the flyer attached to this report, order your favorite items, present the flyer to your server and the library will get 20% of your check. Can be used for dine in or take out orders. Saturday, the main Framingham Library held its annual Winter Arts & Crafts Fair. Views a slideshow from the event here…

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5 Things You Need To Know Today: Dec. 10

Godspell auditions at Amazing Things, St. George Catholic Church's God of This City tour, library's Middle School Homework Center and teen advisory council's youth craft workshop featured in today's column.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation. 1. The main Framingham Library's Middle School Homework Center is open today from 3 to 6 p.m. On Saturday, the library's new teen advisory council organized a youth craft workshop, where students in grades 6-12 could attend and make free craft gifts for family and friends. 2.  St George Catholic Church will host the GOD of THIS CITY TOUR Young adults, families, teens and the public are invited to this free event from 7 to 9 p.m. for an evening of live praise and worship music and Christian fellowship. Featuring  is contemporary music, the guest speaker is Father Matt Williams. 3. Amazing Things …

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IMAGE GALLERY: Purchase Handmade Gifts at Library's Winter Art and Craft Fair

The main Framingham Library is holdings its annual Winter Art & Craft Fair today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The main Framingham Library is holdings its annual Winter Art & Craft Fair today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Purchase handmade gifts created by MetroWest artisans. Shop the bake sale. Enter the raffles. Free parking and free admission.

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IMAGE GALLERY: Framingham High Students Exhibiting at Library

Students from Framingham High School are exhibiting their best at the main Framingham Library this month.

Students from Framingham High School are exhibiting their best at the main Framingham Library this month. These are justa few of the art projects on display through Nov. 30.

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State Awards Framingham $4.186M Grant for Proposed Christa McAuliffe Library Branch

Framingham was one of eight communities awarded grants by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners today.

The Framingham Library Foundation and the Framingham Library Trustees were awarded a $4.186 million grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners today to construct a new Christa McAuliffe Branch Library in Nobscot. Eight projects around the Commonwealth were awarded general construction grants by the Board of Library Commissioners at its Oct. 4 board meeting. Framingham was the fifth ranked project in the 2010-11 grant round. Framingham was on the wait list the last go round. Library trustees want to construct a 17,000 square foot newMcAuliffe branch library on a parcel of land in Nobscot at 732-746 Water St. This library would replace the existing branch at the corner of Nicholas Road and Water Street. Library Trustee Liz …

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