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Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Firefighters Battle Two-Alarm Blaze at 17 Glade Ave. in Jamaica Plain Newton Police Officer Honored by Department for Heroic Efforts The Institution that Vows Built (Watertown)
For more on these stories, visit the following links: Students Stock Jamaica Pond With More Than 1,150 Salmon and Trout (West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain) Slam Poet Taylor Mali Gives a Special Performance to Select Lincoln-Sudbury Students Earth Day Comes Early in Wayland
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: John Lawn Wins Democratic Primary For 10th Middlesex State Rep. Seat Radical Bookstore is Heading for Jamaica Plain Fire and Police Agencies Bring Safety Day to Boston College (Brookline)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Socks Take on New Meaning for Waltham Woman Former Lincoln-Sudbury Great Swords Picked 15th in WNBA Draft Acton Youth Band Stereo Bliss to Perform at Berklee College of Music Competition Weston High School Band Presents
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: As Mayor Floats New Anti-Violence Plan, Some in Jamaica Plain Say the Solution is Jobs Sudbury Community Supports Milley Memorial Scholarship Charity Hockey Game Watertown Student Shoots Hoops for Life The Phantom Comes to Wayland's Dudley Chateau
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Fatal Car Crash on Route 2 West; 61-Year-Old West Townsend Man Dies (Acton) Voters Pass Operating Budget After Amendments to Revolving Fund Expenditures (Wayland) Lincoln-Sudbury Girls' Lacrosse Team Too Much for Waltham Training Dogs Where Kids Once Learned (Waltham)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Menino Says No More Sugary Drinks Sold on City-Owned Properties (Jamaica Plain) Cuisine for a Cause in Sudbury Parking Rates in Brookline Soar on Red Sox Game Days
For more on today's headlines, visit the links below: Vehicular Homicide Charges in Newton Incumbents (Mostly) Win in Wayland Elections Brook Farm Historic Site Could Become a Working Farm (West Roxbury)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: School Committee Rejects Watertown Teachers' Contract Acton-Boxborough Science Team to Compete in National Competition Sudbury's Shaq Takes Second in Pinewood Derby Novelist Julia Glass Taking Part in West Roxbury Reads on Thursday
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories. Two-Alarm Fire Sends Resident to Hospital (Newton) Jamaica Plain's Casey Overpass Will Be Demolished. But What Next? Marathon of Song for Japan Raises Over $8,000 (Brookline) Sudbury Captures Title in Third Annual Civics Bee
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories. Auburndale Avenue Fire Rescue Earns Newton Firefighter Hero Status (Newton) Missing Jamaica Plain Boy Found, Is Safe Waltham City Council Approves Sponsoring Purchase of Historic Home Power Outage Forces Haynes School to Close (Sudbury)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Everyone Reported Safe After Three-Alarm Fire in Newton Company Chosen to Complete Study on Regional Dispatch Center Watertown Town Officials Upset by Absence of Top School Officials at School Budget Meeting The Acton Skate Park
For more on today's stories, visit the following links: Snow Expected (Region) Curious Customers, Bargain Hunters Meet at Finnerty's (Wayland) 10th Middlesex Candidates Grilled by Young Reporters (Watertown and Waltham)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Anti-Whole Foods Banners Appear Again in Jamaica Plain's Hyde Square Drobinski Wins Re-Election to Sudbury Board of Selectmen Acton-Boxborough Winter Percussion Performs at NESBA Competition [Editor's note: Today's PatchCast should have said that on Saturday in Jamaica Plain, opponents of Whole Foods moving to the neighborhood plan a march and rally.]
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Wayland Fire Department Receives Grant for New Radios Creme de la Creme of Boston Cream Pie (Newton) Spring in the Acton Ponds
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Anne Wilson Appointed Sudbury Superintendent Waltham Driving School Closes Scenes from the Waterworks Museum (Brookline) Spring Seasonings with the Newton-Needham Chamber
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: "Race to Nowhere": Big Questions, No Easy Answers (Acton Patch) Saying Goodbye to Olmsted's Elm (Brookline Patch) As J.P. Licks Opens in Wellesley, "Organic Growth" is Goal of Founder (Jamaica Plain Patch)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Susan Nicholson Chosen as New Waltham School Superintendent Despite Earlier Reservations, Newton Alderman Agree to Test Out Shoveling Rule Three Arrested in Two Separate Watertown Prostitution Busts
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Help for Japan, One Spoonful at a Time (Brookline) Beating Whitinsville Christian Proves to be Too Tall a Task for the Raiders (Watertown) Filmmaker to Get Wayland-Shot Film in Theaters 'Super Moon' Shines Over Boston (Jamaica Plain)
Follow the links below for more on today's featured stories: Newton Police Still Searching for Thursday's Shooting Suspect Acton Woman Survives Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami, Makes Contact with Mother Superstar Patti Smith Visits Jamaica Plain Loker Kindergartners 'Solve' Marine Mystery (Wayland)

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