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  • How a fallen Westford lieutenant is honored in a new exhibit.

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Saturday: Sunshine, with a high of 65 and low of 44 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 'Fragments' Brings the Battle of Valcour Island to Life (sevendaysvt.com) — Westford has a poignant connection to the Battle of Valcour Island through Lt. Thomas Rogers, a local man killed when a cannon exploded aboard his ship in 1776. A new Lake Champlain Maritime Museum exhibit, "Fragments," uses underwater archaeology and pension records to piece together stories like Rogers' and trace how looted relics complicated efforts to understand this pivotal Revolutionary War battle.
   

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