Everything Happening In And Around Westwood

Happy Friday, people of Westwood! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started off right. Here's everything going on in and around Westwood today.

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First, today's weather:

Overcast throughout the day. High: 70 Low: 63.

Here are the top stories in Westwood today:

1. Westwood Project Shows Possibility Of Fully Inclusive Playground (Westwood Patch)
2. Aerosmith, Boston, James Taylor Make Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Songs List (CBS Boston)
3. 900 Afghan Evacuees Coming To Massachusetts (CBS Boston)
4. ‘Our lives were changed forever’: Family of Boston University professor Dr. David Jones, who died at JFK/UMas (MassLive.com)
5. The 29 best places to go apple picking near Boston, according to Boston.com readers (Boston.com)
6. Cambridge-based Moderna posts data in support of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots (WCVB Boston)
7. Report: MBTA On Course Toward 'Fiscal Calamity' (WBUR)
8. Why Are People Not Getting Vaccinated? (News@Northeastern)
9. 'Dire' Mass and Cass situation costing Boston food bank $500K in security costs (WCVB Boston)
10. This unique buyback program aims to reduce needle litter in Boston (The Boston Globe)
11. With Return to In-Person Instruction, Courses Adapt to Accommodate Quarantining Students | News (Harvard Crimson)
12. 10 things to do in Boston this weekend (Boston.com)

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Today in Westwood:

• Virtual Guidance Parent Talk (Parents of Seniors) (8:00 AM)

Westwood Patch Notebook

• Westwood, MA Public Library: "Our team of librarians are spreading their knowledge to the library field by taking on more leadership roles. June is our technology librarian and is vice chair of the Minuteman library networks technology interest group. Felicia, our te..." (Facebook)
• Westwood, MA Public Library: "Save the Date for the next Friends of the Library book sale!" (Facebook)

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— Mary Ellen Gambon

About me: I am a Freelance Massachusetts Editor covering the towns of Canton, Dedham, Norwood, Westwood and Walpole, MA. I am a Boston native who began my journalism career in 1994. I graduated from Boston University, where I received bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science. In 2002, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a master's in public administration. I am a 1994 Pulliam Fellow, a national award given to 10 graduating college seniors who are pursuing careers in journalism. I previously was a staff reporter for Gazette Publications, Inc., The Dedham TImes, The Daily Transcript and The Parkway-West Roxbury Transcript. Over the past four years, I have been a freelance reporter at Bulletin Newspapers, Inc. and Gannett, Inc. covering greater Boston. I also write for The Hopkinton Independent.

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