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Needham grandmother dies after earlier hit-run in NorwoodA Needham grandmother struck by a hit-and-run driver has now died, our news partner WCVB reports. Her family tells NewsCenter 5, Ellie Jacobs passed away Wednesday night. — Wicked Local Norwood Westwood Selectmen welcome Norwood farmers marketThe Westwood Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Oct. 4 to invite the farmers market to town beginning in the spring of 2012. It would end a 17-year run in the Apollo parking lot, a run that many are unhappy to see end. View Westwood snags farmers market from Norwood in a larger map — Wicked Local Norwood Westwood Board of Selectmen welcomes Norwood Farmer's MarketThe town of Norwood would like the farmer's market to move from its current location to the town common. The town of Westwood has already welcomed the market, and said it would be located in the Westwood Council on Aging parking lot.This map shows the distance between the three points. View Norwood/Westwood Farmer's Market in a larger map — Wicked Local Norwood Norwood's Rogers jubilant at hard-won victoryState Rep. John Rogers stood on a chair in a local pub Tuesday night declaring victory over his Republican opponent Jim Stanton in his bid for a 10th term in the 12th Norfolk House seat. — Wicked Local Nantucket After loss, Stanton says he’ll run again in 2012Vowing to run for the same post again in 2012, Republican challenger Jim Stanton conceded to incumbent state Rep. John Rogers, losing unofficially 52 percent to 48 percent in the race for the 12th Norfolk District. Despite sweeping the popular vote in Walpole’s four precincts, Stanton fell an average of about 150 votes short in each of Norwood’s nine precincts. — Wicked Local Nantucket Walpole school's school of fishThey’re not your typical fish. They’re playing football and basketball, making music and studying for math class. They have octopus tentacles, crab legs and an oversized afro. — Wicked Local Walpole
St. Denis, St. Margaret Mary may collaborate, says ArchdioceseIf a proposal being weighed by the Boston Archdiocese to overhaul how all Bay State Catholic parishes are organized and overseen is adopted, Westwood’s two Catholic churches would be grouped into a single cluster, eventually overseen by a single pastor. — Wicked Local Westwood Where Romney, Sen. Brown stand on various issuesRepublican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown publicly support each other and even share key advisers. But on many topics, from foreign policy to social issues, the Massachusetts Republicans take very different positions. — The Boston Globe Monday, May 21, 2012 3:58 AM
Boy hit by car in DorchesterA 5-year-old boy who was hit by a car in front of his grandmother's house in Dorchester yesterday while playing... — The Boston Herald Monday, May 21, 2012 5:13 AM
Child hit by car in DorchesterA child was critically injured when he was hit by a vehicle in Dorchester, police say. — The Boston Channel Monday, May 21, 2012 9:51 AM
Westwood selectmen weigh automated trash removal, 1-stream recyclingThe talk at the Westwood Board of Selectmen meeting Monday night was rubbish — rubbish removal, that is. With the town’s solid waste removal contract expiring in March, the board’s priority for the next contract is overhauling the current system. The board expressed interest in switching to a single-stream recycling program, where residents no longer have to separate their recyclables into glass, paper and metal categories. Instead, all recyclables are put curbside in a single bin, which encourages more recycling and therefore lessens the impact on the environment. — Wicked Local Westwood Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connectionsMassachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers. — The Boston Globe Monday, May 21, 2012 3:58 AM
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