Ma Reports 1,355 New Coronavirus Cases + Best Local Farm Stands

Rise and shine, Chelmsford! Let's get this Friday started off right. Here's everything you need to know today in town.

First, today's weather:

Warm with clouds and sun. High: 73 Low: 47.

Here are the top stories today in Chelmsford:

1. The road to rent control - POLITICO (Politico)
2. Does Concord have the best Main Street? Cast your vote by Nov. 7 (Wicked Local)
3. In Concord, rail trail users await completion of Route 2 flyover, connection to Sudbury (Wicked Local)
4. Eye on Art: Lowell’s Market Street a treasure of fall art (Lowell Sun)
5. Lowell School Committee members angry student placement data still unavailable (Lowell Sun)
6. Lowell remembers police officers killed in 1996 plane crash (Lowell Sun)
7. ‘Don’t Give Up On Addicts’: Signs Of Hope In Midst Of Misery At Mass & Cass (CBS Boston)
8. Mass. health officials report 1,355 new COVID-19 cases, 11 additional deaths| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
9. Indian Hill Music to open new 1000-seat Groton HQ and change name (Worcester Business Journal)
10. Nikole Hannah-Jones was invited to Middlesex School. Then she wasn't. (Boston.com)
11. Theatre III to return with ‘Lovers and Other Strangers’ Nov. 5-7,12-13 (Milford Daily News)
12. Crews battle large house fire in Boxboro| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
13. Erland Construction Completes New Apartment Community in Billerica, MA (Boston Real Estate Times)
14. The best farm stands to find local goods this fall (Wicked Local)

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Today in Chelmsford:

Chelmsford Patch Notebook

• Chelmsford Public Schools: "We're doing it! The numbers are climbing! Keep it up Chelmsford and spread the word! VOTE HERE: boston25news.com/MySchoolRules/" (Facebook)

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— 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.

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