Community Corner
Hingham Library Annual Fund Drive, Happy Holidays!
5 Things: A run-down of events and other useful information for your life in Hingham on Dec. 20, 2013.

1. Library's annual fund-raising drive now underwayBy now we hope you have received our annual appeal letter in your mail. If you haven't please follow this link to read about this year's campaign and how you can help.
2. Happy Holidays! Tell us about your shopping, your tree, your presents, your snowmen – whatever! – at our Speak Out page.
3. Share your sports photos, fundraising events, dance videos – anything at all related to Hingham High School on our open blog for the school.
4. Relatively warm today, but wet. The National Weather Service is predicting a high of 46 degrees with a slight chance of showers after 4 p.m. Showers into Friday night, low around 37 degrees.
5. On this day in 1989, the U.S. sent forces into Panama to topple General Manuel Noriega. Before the invasion, President George H.W. Bush said American troops were going in to protect U.S. citizens from a hostile government, defend democracy, combat illegal drug trafficking and protect a Panama Canal treaty.
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