Tyngsboro Fire Victim Identified + Racist Incident In Westford

Get on up, Westford! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started. Here's everything worth knowing today in Westford.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy. High: 39 Low: 36.

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Here are the top stories in Westford today:

1. Pet Adoption In The Westford Area: See New Pets (Westford Patch)
2. Plug In and sing; register by Feb. 14 (YourArlington.com)
3. Tripleseat's Venue Directory EventUp Celebrates 2021 Successes | State (Woburn Daily Times)
4. Housing authority vies for $1m from CPA (YourArlington.com)
5. Freedom House was a center of the civil rights movement in Boston. Now it faces demolition. (The Boston Globe)
6. Apply now for Southborough's Taxation Aid for Seniors and the Disabled (or donate to the fund) (mysouthborough)
7. Rail Trail Flatbread Co.'s heart-shaped flatbreads will come with poems written by 2nd graders this Valentine (MassLive.com)
8. Parallel Wireless Brings Largest Ecosystem of Leading-Edge Open RAN Partners to MWC Barcelona 2022 (The Laconia Daily Sun)
9. Stow Fire Department awarded state grant for safety equipment (Wicked Local)
10. Are you looking to pop the question on Valentine's Day? Here are the top spots (MetroWest Daily News)
11. Man dies after being found behind Framingham home (WCVB Boston)
12. ArtSpace Maynard artists featured in Concord exhibit (Wicked Local)
13. Georgia man accused of kicking 2 women in the stomach on commuter rail train in Mass.| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
14. Belmont Socked With More Than A Foot-And-A- Half Of Snow From Blizzard Of '22 (The Belmontonian)
15. U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan: I understand the urgency in replacing Rourke Bridge (Lowell Sun)
16. Fitchburg Public Schools selected for program to expand educator diversity (Sentinel & Enterprise)
17. Morning fire damages home in North Andover | News (Eagle-Tribune)
18. Greater Lawrence Tech Students Compete in Future Farmers of America Challenge (WHAV News)
19. Brothers hailed as heroes for saving Massachusetts couple from house fire during nor'easter (WCVB Boston)
20. Framingham Public School District Reported 75% of its COVID Cases in January – 1,741 Cases (framinghamsource.com)
21. Official: Westford students taunted Wayland player with 'racially charged language' at basketball game| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
22. Nashoba Tech restaurant back to serving public (Lowell Sun)
23. Mass. officials urge colleges to roll back COVID-19 precautions to 'near normal' levels| (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
24. Bolton's Nashoba Valley Winery sells Massachusetts-made apple vodka, other spirits (WCVB Boston)
25. Lynnfield helping children manage anxiety - Itemlive (Daily Item)
26. Cawley Stadium needs $7.4 million in repairs (Lowell Sun)
27. Bolton's Nashoba Valley Winery sells Made in Mass apple vodka, other spirits (WCVB Boston)
28. Methuen DPW employee alerts residents of porch fire (The Boston Globe)
29. Fatal Tyngsboro Fire Believed To Be Accidental, 30-Year-Old Victim Identified (CBS Boston)

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Today in Westford:

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From my notebook:

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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Wednesday. See you all tomorrow morning 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.