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Historic Districts, Emergency Center and School Committee Meetings

5 Things: A run-down of events and other useful information for your life in Hingham on Oct. 17, 2013.

1. Historic Districts meets at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall. Click here for a full agenda.

2. The Hingham Newcomers Club Book Group meets at Hingham Public Library from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the conference room. 

3. The South Shore Regional Emergency Communications Center is holding a meeting at 10 a.m. at Town Hall..

The Hingham Public Schools Policy Subcommittee meets at 8 a.m. in the Superintendent's Office.

Click here for a full agenda for both meetings.

4. Bring your rain coat but don't dress too warmly. Showers are possible before 1 p.m., but otherwise partly sunny with a high near 71 degrees Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. More showers likely late tonight, low around 53.

5. Born on this day in history: Pope John Paul I (1912), actor Montgomery Clift (1920), cartoonist behind Beavis and Butt-head Mike Judge (1962), comedian Norm Macdonald (1963), Ziggy Marley (1968), Wyclef Jean (1969) and Eminem (1972).

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