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Bargains to be had at Natick library Book Nook sale

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Friends of the Morse Institute Library will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Book Nook—touted as Natick’s only bookstore—during the week of Oct. 18-24 with a sale.

Among the attractions will be a wide selection of music CDs priced at $1 apiece, half off the usual price. Be aware that the Nook is exact change only at the nearby Honor Box.

The Nook is supplied through donations of books, CDs/DVDs, games, and puzzles.

The Nook is open during library hours. All proceeds from sales help the Friends support Library
programs, including museum passes and Speed Reads.

Morse Institute Library, Natick

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Car crashes into South Natick utility pole, wipes out power

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10/16/20 UPDATE: Power was restored in the South Natick neighborhood in the wee hours of Friday. Naturally we had just done a huge grocery shop that day and so had a fridge and freezer full of perishables. We kept the doors shut tight during the outage and the ice cream stayed solid. Phew.

The stay-at-home crowd in South Natick got a rude awakening Thursday afternoon when a car slammed into a utility pole on Rte. 16 near South Lincoln St., and wiped out power across the neighborhood.

The crash into one pole resulted in a second one being yanked down as well. Power is out because a transformer on the second pole was knocked off during the incident.

The accident had ripple effects across town, as traffic backed up and was rerouted on major roads including Rte. 16, Pond Road and Union Street. One neighbor came scooting down to check out the scene on a golf cart.

Eversource is on the job, and they were talking of restoring power tonight, though it’s unclear how soon it will really be back. One neighbor was scrambling out to buy a generator. Here’s hoping they won’t need it.

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Natick goes yellow on state’s COVID-19 map

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Natick has slipped from green status to yellow on the Massachusetts COVID-19 community-level data map, which gets updated each Wednesday afternoon.

Last week Natick was in the green, which means the community has an average daily case rate of less than 4 per 100,000 residents. Natick had been at 3.58. This week Natick has been downgraded to yellow because its average daily case rate has topped 4.

The next jump up is to red, which designates an 8-plus average daily case rate. Framingham, Holliston, and Southborough are among nearby communities in the red.

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Drop your ballot in Natick’s patriotic new box at Town Hall

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If you’ve received your ballot by mail for the Nov. 3 election, Natick is ready for you to drop it off in its shiny new ballot box to the left of the front door at Town Hall.

Natick, like other communities, found that with so much early voting its previous ballot collection lockbox would easily get filled throughout the day.

The new $3,000 box, paid for using grant money, holds upwards of 1,000 ballots. Town Clerk Diane Packer and colleagues check it throughout the day to process ballots and keep up.

“It is working out great!!” Packer says.

Natick has laid out details on how to register (by Oct. 24) and how to vote, whether you want to do it by mail, early in-person at Morse Institute Library, or on Nov. 3.

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