Get ready for a wide variety of outdoor music on Saturday as Natick Porchfest returns on Sept. 25 from 2-6pm, with an after-party from 6-7pm.

A searchable map is available at the Porchfest website where you can plot your travels. The music clustered around a handful of streets, including Walnut, Washington, Sheriden and Plain.

Performers include Stretch Pants, Miguel Melendez, Broken Vanity, Chris Wagner, and many others. Musical genres range from R&B to rock, and from punk to acapella.

A band called  Los Goutos will wind things up. with. a performance from 6-7pm behind Music Go Round at 810 Worcester St. (Rte. 9 east).

Porchfest started in Natick in 2019, but was nixed in 2020 due to the pandemic. Let’s hope this year’s gets the momentum back.

We’ve been to pre-COVID porchfests in Arlington and Brookline and they were a ton of fun. Great vibes and discoveries while sampling a variety of music you might not otherwise be exposed to if left to your own tastes.

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The Natick Organic Farm 2021 Harvest Dinner To-Go will happen on Friday, September 24. Pick-up time is 5pm-6:30pm, at the top of the NCOF driveway, 117 Eliot St., Natick.

Your participation not only gets you the choice of an amazing vegetarian or omnivore dinner, but it helps support the farm’s initiatives.

Each meal feeds two adults. Menus and details here.

Reason to rejoice: the sticky toffee pudding, made by by  Amy Snyder and the culinary students of Keefe Tech Culinary Arts Program, is on the menu.

On the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, there will be a service in front of Natick Police Department and Natick Fire Department 9/11 Memorial beginning at 8:45am.

8:50 AM – Opening remarks Paul E. Carew VSO, Warren Griffin President Natick Veterans Council

9:00 AM – Opening prayer / followed by taps / NFD Bells

9:10 AM – Griff Veterans Council

9:15 AM – Select Board Member Karen Adelman-Foster

9:20 AM – Army COL Retired William Callahan, Iraq War

9:35 AM – NSSC Representative CSM Roldan

9:45 AM – Closing remarks Paul Carew VSO

9:45 AM – Amazing Grace

You were all so close, at least geographically. A lottery ticket sold by the J Convenience Store at 229 North Main St., in Natick to a Waltham man turned out to be a $1M winner.

The Mass Lottery writes that Noel Bordage won the $1 million prize in mid-August via the “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” instant ticket game.

He chose the cash option for his prize and received payment of $650,000 (before taxes).

The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for its ticket sale.

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More than 40 Natick residents will be among the 6,000-plus cyclists taking part in this weekend’s Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), which will raise tens of millions for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Many participants have lived with cancer themselves, or ride to honor those who have died or are too sick to ride.

This year’s PMC returns Aug. 7 & 8 as a group event, though participants also have had the option of charting their own course in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PMC includes include 16 routes – from 25 to 211 miles.  Numerous routes, including a 100-mile one, start at Babson College in Wellesley.

There are various ways to give to PMC riders’ fundraisers, including searching riders by name. Here’s the list of Natick riders provided by PMC.

• Michael Bergin
• Eric Berman
• David Boyarsky
• Lisa Burns
• Molly Cashmore
• Steven Cashmore
• Patrick Cavanagh
• Steven Cohen
• Mike Cohn
• Matthew Cohn
• Carol Conway
• Linc Cornell
• Lois Cornell
• Doug Crossley
• Claire Eckelkamp
• Martha Fagan
• Billy Feinberg
• Glen Glater
• Martha Gold
• Emily Hawley
• Melissa Jacoby
• Mark Kacprowicz
• Robin Kostin
• Pamela Landis
• Jim Liebowitz
• Benjamin Loewenberg
• Brett Lousararian
• John Manning
• Jonathan Migdol
• Jeff Olsen
• Ellie Olsen
• Grafton Pease
• John Portnoy
• Michael Price
• Denise Rosenblum
• Virginia Seery
• Heidi Siegal Kogon
• Mark Smerdon
• John Smutko
• Karen Snyder
• Ken Vona
• Larry Ziegler
• Kathleen Fitzgerald

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