Community Corner
Selectmen Budget Hearings, Baby Story Time
5 Things: A run-down of events and other useful information for your life in Hingham on Dec. 12, 2013.

1. The Board of Selectmen meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall Thursday evening. They will go over various budgets, including the Bathing Beach, Recreation, Town Clerk, Police and Library, and then go into executive session for labor discussions.
Click here for the complete agenda.
2. Hingham Public Library hosts "Babies, Books, & Play" from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in the Story Telling Room.
3. The Shade Tree Committee meets at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
For that agenda, and other Thursday meetings, see the town calendar.
4. Clear but cold on the docket for Thursday. High near 26 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Mostly clear, low around 15 with moderate winds tonight.
5. Born on this day in history: Frank Sinatra (1915), former New York City Mayor Ed Koch (1924) and singer Dionne Warwick (1940).
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