Tewksbury Loses $102K To Scam + Man Tries To Steal UPS Packages

Happy Friday, neighbors! Let's get this day started off right. Here's everything happening around town today.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy, snow and sleet, 1-3". High: 33 Low: 9.

Here are the top stories today in Westford:

1. Woburn's Patriot Community Bank to merge with East Cambridge Savings Bank (Boston Business Journal)
2. New restaurant in Framingham serves up about 40 flavors of bubble tea (MetroWest Daily News)
3. 'So much fun.' Wayland band Mid Life Crisis marks 20 years playing variety of genres (Milford Daily News)
4. Leominster rep tried to push 'Happy Hour' bill for struggling bars and restaurants (Worcester Telegram)
5. What's the hold up in Medford approving recreational marijuana shops? (Wicked Local)
6. Eye on Art: Color, techniques and more in new Lowell shows (Lowell Sun)
7. Letter: Andover Garden Club grateful for help (Eagle-Tribune)
8. MSLAW provides accessible, affordable legal education (Boston Herald)
9. Boston Area Homebuyers Facing All Cash Offers, Crowded Open Houses (CBS Boston)
10. Patriots Foundation, Bank of America give ‘Community Captain’ UTEC $50G (Lowell Sun)
11. Founding Lowell: Nathan Appleton and his Utopian dream (richardhowe.com)
12. Man accused of attempted murder in connection with alleged home invasion in Litchfield (WMUR Manchester)
13. Saugus Continental Restaurant gets a Hollywood break - Itemlive (Daily Item)
14. Leominster Library launches Tween Advisory Group, dedicated tween area (Sentinel & Enterprise)
15. The Five Minute Read (Lowell Sun)
16. Rosemarie Sansone, downtown Boston’s biggest cheerleader, dies at age 77 (BetaBoston)
17. To Acton man, new ‘Fab Four’ is group who saved his life (Lowell Sun)
18. Beacon Village renovations OK'd | Burlington (Woburn Daily Times)
19. Three charged, guns seized after "shots fired" into Lawrence apartment building (Eagle-Tribune)
20. TransMedics: Q4 Earnings Snapshot (New Canaan Advertiser)
21. Assabet Co-op Market gets project permits from Maynard Planning Board (Wicked Local)
22. Up To A Foot Of Snow Coming To Parts Of Massachusetts Friday (CBS Boston)
23. Voter Sign & Go! event planned in Groton (Lowell Sun)
24. Now Hiring Part-time Van Driver (maynardtownadmin.org)
25. Tewksbury loses $102,000 to phishing scam (Lowell Sun)
26. Buzz builds over Ayer’s Little Bee Bookshop (Lowell Sun)
27. Intellia inks deal for Waltham manufacturing site (Boston Business Journal)
28. POLICE LOG for February 18: Issues With Gates At North Wilmington Crossing; Man Trying To Take Packages Off Of UPS Trucks (wilmingtonapple.com)

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— Annie Sandoli

About me: Annie has been a Boston-based writer since 2018, after graduating with her BA in Social Thought and Political Economy from UMass Amherst and ALM in journalism from Harvard University. She has worked as a freelancer throughout Massachusetts and as part of an editorial team in London, UK. Her interests include music and the arts, creative writing and literature, and topics of social and political justice. Annie covers Brookline, Newton, Waltham, Chelmsford and Westford. Email news tips to annie.sandoli@patch.com.