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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Dec. 15

Patch's top picks of the day.

"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. Check back later for more, and let us know what you think of the new feature in the comments section. 1. Bring your holiday cheer to the Wildwood Early Childhood Center as it presents two performances of a Winter Wonderland. One will be at 9:30 a.m. and the another at 12:45 p.m. 2. The Rotary Club of Wilmington meets today at 12:15 p.m. at Rocco's Restaurant for its weekly meeting. 3. Shawsheen Elementary's Mrs. Ferrari will select a random group of second and third-grade children to sew up creations for the Health Bridge Nursing Home residents. The children will visit the home and get to sing holiday carols for …

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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Dec. 6

Patch's top picks of the day.

"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. Check back later for more, and let us know what you think of the new feature in the comments section. 1. The boys varsity high school hockey team is having a scrimmage game against Shawsheen Valley Tech at the Billerica High rink at 3:00 p.m. 2. The library is hosting a children's movie night with Disney's "A Christmas Carol" starring Jim Carrey. Stop by for the free popcorn and lemonade but bring something comfortable to sit on. Movie is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:05 p.m. 3. Also at the library tonight is the food gifts for the holidays. Librarians Katie Huffman and Brandy Danner demonstrate easy recipes that give as …

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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Nov. 23

Wilmington Patch's top picks of the day.

Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. Check back later for more, and let us know what you think of the new feature in the comments section. 1. Story time for four and five-year-olds begins at the library at 10:30 a.m. for those children not already enrolled in kindergarten. Children are introduced to books, board stories, songs, circle games and finger playing. 2. The High School's boys winter indoor track sign-up meeting starts at 2:15 p.m. in Room 114. 3. Tonight is the last night the Wilmington Youth Hockey will be collecting donations for the Local Heroes Inc. group. The Local Heroes creates packages for troops overseas with local ties. Classes …

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Week in Review: Nov. 8 to 14

Our launch week brought you loads of news on Veterans Day and sports, charitable and entertaining events and more.

This was our launch week and we went "live" on one of the most treasured (and busy) holidays in Wilmington–Veterans Day.   We wanted to give you great, visual, coverage of the actual Veterans Day ceremony and exhibit down on the town common, and showcase the Wilmington High School band that was bigger and better than ever. But we also wanted to highlight veterans in our community, like the many veterans who continue their public service after (or during) their military service as firefighters. In addition, we also spotlighted the great work the Local Heroes, Inc. organization has done, and continues to do, for the troops by visiting them for their six-year anniversary meeting, where over 100 boxes were packaged up with …

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Bruins Took Ice Saturday Without Practicing

Coach Claude Julien called off Friday’s practice following 3-1 loss to Montreal; Savard, Sturm, Boychuk, Thomas, and Rask the only Bruins who took the ice.

Boston Bruins host the Ottawa Senators, another division rival, tonight at TD Garden. Head coach Claude Julien called off Friday's practice at Ristuccia Arena for most of his players following a 3-1 loss to their division rival the Montreal Canadiens.   "I just felt that last night, in the third period, we really kind of looked tired," said Julien whose team was outscored 2-0 in the game-deciding final-period. "We've kind of eliminated the fatigue excuse by giving them the day off today." The Bruins have been following a jam-packed schedule of 11 games in 19 days. "Didn't think there's much we would have done today that would benefit us in tomorrow's game," added Julien, whose squad did participate in off-ice workouts. Despite the whittled…

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