5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: November 12

1. Residents of Framingham’s Nobscot neighborhood are invited to a workshop meeting tonight at 7 at Heritage at Framingham Senior Living on Water Street.

The Economic Development & Industrial Corporation will discuss the recommendations from the Strategic Economic Development Plan report that was recently completed by the Cecil Group. The plans do include a discussing of the mostly empty Nobscot Plaza.

2. A recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston entitled The Color of Wealth in Boston found the net worth of whites as compared with nonwhites in the region is staggeringly divergent. So tonight, Framingham State University and the Greater Framingham Community Church will host a free presentation and panel discussion on the issue at the church at 6:30.

The night will begin with a special presentation of the Color of Wealth Report by Ana Patricia Munoz, the Community Development Research Director with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and followed by a panel discussion moderated by State Rep. Chris Walsh of Framingham.

3. Framingham High will hold a study skills event tonight in the cafeteria at 7. Science teacher Robert Langdon will be presenting tips on how to study. Students who are not earning the grades they think they deserve or students who are working hard – but not getting the results they want, should consider attending said Principal Elyse Torbert.

The presentation will include how to take great notes and make class time work for you, how to make your homework really work for you, how to successfully prepare for a math or science test, and how to take a math or science exam.

Parents are welcome to attend with students.

4. Framingham Public Library’s Lifelong Learning Lecture Series continues tonight at 7 in the Blumer Room at the Memorial Building. (The main Framingham Library is still closed, due to an electrical explosion in October.)

Dr. John Heineman, a professor emeritus at Boston College, will present Can Art Help Us Understand History using Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware and other famous history paintings.

The free lecture examines the role that historic paintings play in understanding historic events.

The series is a collaboration between the Library and Framingham State University, and is sponsored in part by the he Framingham Cultural Council.

5. Framingham Disability Commission has a meeting tonight at 7:15 in the Memorial Building.