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Tufts Tops New Sports Building, Farmers Market Today, Back to School Tips

Here's five things. Thursday, August 18, 2011.

: held a cermony Wednesday to celebrate the "topping off" of its new sports complex on College Avenue. The 42,000 square foot Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center will include new locker rooms, film classrooms where athletes can study footage, a sports medicine suite and activity rooms for things such as aerobics, Pilates, dance and physical education.

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Farmers Market Today: The Medford Farmers Market is in full swing, open today from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the parking lot at Whole Foods on the Mystic Valley Parkway. The market now accepts SNAP/EBT cards.

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Take the kids to at 7 p.m. today for a puppet show of Aesop's Fables, presented by Sparky's Puppets.

Heating Up: Highs in the upper-80s are expected today, with a 20 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service. There's a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms tomorrow.

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