Middlesex County Covid Cases Up 6.5% + Local Events This Week

Annie Sandoli
·3 min read

Good morning, Westford! It's Wednesday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy and milder. High: 42 Low: 33.

Here are the top stories today in Westford:

  1. Nuance Contact Center AI, Biometrics, and Tooling Solutions Now Available for Genesys Cloud CX (Woburn Daily Times)

  2. Paradigm4 Joins the Tetra Partner Network to Leverage Tetra Data into High-performing Analytical Computing Applications for Pharmaceutical Customers (Woburn Daily Times)

  3. Middlesex County's COVID-19 cases up 6.5%; Massachusetts cases up 5.1% (MetroWest Daily News)

  4. Newton Italian restaurant MIDA marks six-month anniversary (Wicked Local)

  5. Green Line service resumes following incident at Park Street station in Boston| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)

  6. Arlington's Robbins Library bounces back with high circulation, new website (Wicked Local)

  7. Chamber Foundation taking applications for its scholarship program (The Gardner News)

  8. Hands on Nature shares the beauty of the outdoors (Sentinel & Enterprise)

  9. Fitchburg State University’s exploration of Italian colonialism continues this month (Sentinel & Enterprise)

  10. North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce selected for National Workforce Training Program (Sentinel & Enterprise)

  11. Letters: Three on the condition of Lowell’s Roarke Bridge (Lowell Sun)

  12. Frank Paul Cortez | News, Sports, Jobs (Nashua Telegraph)

  13. Robert Harold Foster | News, Sports, Jobs (Nashua Telegraph)

  14. Within hours Monday, Greater Nashua went from snowy, windy, icy and slushy to rainy, then mostly sunny and fairly warm (Nashua Telegraph)

  15. Editorial: New Boston point system dings students for good grades (Boston Herald)

  16. Arizona Mother Worried Son’s Surgery In Boston Will Be Rescheduled Again Due To COVID (CBS Boston)

  17. Police searching for hit-and-run driver who left young woman injured in Fitchburg| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)

  18. Prioritizing preservation in Concord, Massachusetts (WCVB Boston)

  19. West Concord couple create WECO, with 'pay what you want' model (WCVB Boston)

  20. In his first year, Batra gets results at Waters Corp. (BetaBoston)

  21. Southern New Hampshire Outreach for Black Unity celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day (WMUR Manchester)

  22. Massachusetts hospitals delay thousands of surgeries as they face COVID surge (WCVB Boston)

  23. Police investigate gunshots fired in Lowell’s Highlands neighborhood (Lowell Sun)

  24. Mass. seeks to claw back at least $2.7 billion in jobless benefits it says were incorrectly paid (BetaBoston)

  25. Westford: See This Week's Upcoming Events In The Area (Westford Patch)

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Today in Westford:

  • Council on Aging - Town of Westford (3:00 PM)

  • Permanent Town Building Committee - Town of Westford (6:30 PM)

  • Zoning Board of Appeals - Town of Westford (7:00 PM)

  • Northern Middlesex Council of Governments Council (7:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Town of Westford, MA: "Water Main Break - Brookside Road 1/17/2022" (Facebook)

  • Nextdoor Neighbor, Forge Village/Main: "Bluebirds love these and they ate high in calcium and cheaper than meal worms. - Chewy stocks them!" (Nextdoor)

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Events:

  • Great North Woods And White Mountains Regions Virtual Job Fair (January 20)

  • Painter Victoria Voner, Poet Alice Fogel, and The Marvento Duo (piano & flute) (January 22)

  • Open House Weekend, Free trial classes all weekend (January 29)

  • PERIOD PIECES (Jazz Quartet) (February 5)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today. See you all tomorrow for another update!

— Annie Sandoli

About me: Annie has been a Boston-based writer since 2018, after graduating with her BA in Social Thought and Political Economy from UMass Amherst and ALM in journalism from Harvard University. She has worked as a freelancer throughout Massachusetts and as part of an editorial team in London, UK. Her interests include music and the arts, creative writing and literature, and topics of social and political justice. Annie covers Brookline, Newton, Waltham, Chelmsford and Westford. Email news tips to annie.sandoli@patch.com.

This article originally appeared on the Westford Patch