5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: March 10

1. The Framingham Library's ad Framingham State University's Lifelong Learning Lecture series continues tonight at the Memorial Building.

Wheaton College Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Bohn Case will present Politics, Propaganda and the Party-Line: The Grimm Brothers in German History at 7 in the Blumer Room.

She will discuss the connection of the Grimm Fairy Tales to German History. The public is invited to the free lecture.

2. The Town of Framingham is inviting the public to a meeting to learn more about flooding and other natural hazards tonight at 7 at the Christa McAuliffe Library branch in Nobscot.

The public will be asked at the meeting to help the town update its multiple hazard mitigation plan. The plan is a document describing a town's natural hazard risks and ways the town can alleviate the risks.

3. Framingham First will host the first of its 7 scheduled community forums, focused on the ballot question to be on the March 29 Town of Framingham election, tonight at Wilson IB School.

Framingham First is advocating for voters to say yes to the creation of a Charter Commission to study Framingham's form of government.

If voters say yes, a Commission would be created and voters would also elect 9 Commissioners to study options to present to voters in 2017. There are 26 Commission candidates.

For a list of the other forum dates, click here.

4. The Framingham Planning Board is scheduled to meet tonight at 7 in the Ablondi Room in the Memorial Building.

5. Framingham State Rep. Chris Walsh (D-Framingham,) delivered a letter signed by 49 state representatives urging the House Ways and Means Committee to include funding and authorization for the expansion of the Housing Court to the one-third of the residents in the Commonwealth, who currently do not have access to a Housing Court.

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