🌱 How Boxford’s finance chief helped land a long-delayed DPW garage

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In today's newsletter:

• How Boxford’s finance chief helped land a long-delayed DPW garage

Also on today's calendar: A Night of Comedy and 2 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A stray thunderstorm, with a high of 64 and low of 45 degrees.
• Saturday: Cloudy and cooler, temps: high: 51, low: 44.
• Sunday: Cloudy with showers, with a high of 56 and low of 35 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Sweeney looks forward to ‘homecoming' as new town manager (thelocalnews.news) — Boxford residents may soon lose their assistant town administrator and finance director, Brendan Sweeney, as he’s been unanimously selected to become Ipswich’s next town manager. The story highlights how his Boxford budgeting work, capital planning, and weekly updates to local officials have shaped his leadership style and helped secure major projects, experience he now plans to bring back to his hometown of Ipswich.
   

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📸 Around Boxford

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Boxford

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• A Night of Comedy
  Salvatore's, 354 Merrimack St, Lawrence
  5:30 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday April 21

• Merrimack Valley Workforce Board
  Boxford, MA Calendar Boxford, MA 01921
  9:00 am

Thursday April 23

• Boxford Library – Toddler Sensory Bins
  Boxford Town Library , 7A Spofford Rd , Boxford
  10:30 am
• Recreation Committee
  Boxford, MA Calendar Boxford, MA 01921
  7:00 pm

Monday April 27

• Select Board
  Boxford, MA Calendar Boxford, MA 01921
  6:30 pm

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📣 Boxford Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Preschool Story Time
  Stevens Memorial Library , 345 Main St , North Andover
  10:30 am
• Story Solvers
  Stevens Memorial Library , 345 Main St , North Andover
  4:00 pm
• Moonlight Serenity
  Painting with a Twist , 10 High St , North Andover
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Methuen JV Baseball @ North Andover
  North Andover High School , 430 Osgood St , North Andover
  10:00 am
• Manchester Essex JV Baseball @ Georgetown
  Georgetown Middle/High School , 11 Winter St , Georgetown
  11:00 am
• Frankly Colorful Friends
  Painting with a Twist , 10 High St , North Andover
  1:00 pm
• Mystical Midnight
  Painting with a Twist , 10 High St , North Andover
  7:00 pm
• Tulip Fields
  Painting with a Twist , 10 High St , North Andover
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Whitsons Culinary Group posted a job opening for Food Service Worker/Cashier - Boxford School Nutrition - Non-union in Boxford. Apply here.
• Imperiall posted a job opening for Cleaning Specialist in North Andover. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Boxford here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Georgetown

• What's Going on with the Underride in Georgetown? (thetowncommon.com)
• Mello's First Months Go Smoothly (thetowncommon.com)
• As universities expanded into downtown D.C., one took the 'extremely unique' step of funding homeless outreach (streetsensemedia.org)

North Andover

• Stars roster at a glance for Stanley Cup Playoffs (nhl.com)

Lawrence

• 5 Investigates: Lawrence City Hall cameras linked to chief of staff's office, source says (wcvb.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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