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Monday Essentials: Police Cove Public Art Review, 3 Movies in Library

Police Cove planning board reviews public art proposals; Barrington library to show 3 free movies this week.

Here are five things you should know about this week in Barrington:

  1. The weather this week will see mostly sunshine and temperatures in the low 80s each day although there could be a few morning showers on Tuesday, thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday and shows back again on Friday.
  2. The committee creating Barrington’s newest park at Police Cove meets at 7 pm in the School Committee Room in Town Hall to review the five public art proposals selected as finalists for the sculpture to be erected in the park.
  3. Revisit the Underground Railroad in the suspenseful movie rendition of Virginia Hamilton's classic, "The House of Dies Drear," today at 6:30 pm in the children’s room of the Barrington library. Appropriate for upper elementary and middle school-aged children. 
  4. The Summer Family Film Series: I Love the ‘90s continues in the Barrington library auditorium tomorrow, July 23, at 7 pm with “Honey We Shrunk Ourselves.” 
  5. And on Wednesday at 1 pm, the “Slice of Lemmon” film and lecture series presented by movie buff and librarian Doug Swiszcz continues with “The Apartment,” starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.
  6. Barrington's summer concert series continues on Sunday, July 28, at 6 pm with the renowned Rhode Island folk duo, Atwater & Donnelly, performing in Government Center.

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