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🌱 Patch AM: How Norton firefighters helped rescue trapped drivers on I-495 Sunday
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In today's newsletter:
- How Norton firefighters helped rescue trapped drivers on I-495 Sunday
Also on today's calendar: Flea Market at the Norton Historical Society and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Cloudy, with a high of 69 and low of 57 degrees.
- Wednesday: Pleasant with clouds and sun, temps: high: 70, low: 55.
- Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 80 and low of 63 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• 3 rushed to the hospital after Mansfield, Norton, Taunton, Massachusetts State Police crews respond to multi-vehicle highway crash (fallriverreporter.com) — Emergency crews from Norton, Mansfield, and Taunton responded Sunday to a serious three-car crash on I-495 northbound near mile marker 27.6, where two people were trapped and required the Jaws of Life. Three patients were taken to hospitals, including Rhode Island Hospital and BMC-South, after vehicles ended up in both the median and nearby woods.
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Norton Public Library, 68 East Main St, Norton
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Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton
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Norton Historical Society, 18 W Main St, Norton
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Smokey Chestnut Farm Rescue, 98A Burt St, Norton
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Mars Science Center, Room SC 3147, Wheaton College 26 East Main StreetNorton, Massachusetts, 02766
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Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, 701 Foundry St, Easton
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Norton Public Library, 68 E Main St, Norton
1:00 pm - Mr. Madison's War: U.S., Britain, and the War of 1812 →
Norton Historical Society, 18 W Main St, Norton
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🗞 Nearby News
Mansfield
- Riley Green Announces New Hampshire + Massachusetts Concerts (ultimatemaine.com)
- Police investigate serious I-495 crash in Mansfield (wpri.com)
- East Bridgewater Planning Board Sets Aside Its Own Data Center Ban, Asks Select Board for 12-Month Moratorium (southshore.news)
Attleboro
- MHHS Sports Notes: Another result for boys' soccer, football falls (eastbayri.com)
Taunton
- Retired Taunton pediatrician hosts Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day (tauntongazette.com)
- Meet Sarge the playful bulldog mix needing a home (tauntongazette.com)
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