5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: Friday, March 11, 2022

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1 Break a leg to Fuller Middle School Drama Company who will stage their first production in the Chris Walsh Theatre tonight.

They are performing their version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Shows are tonight at 7, tomorrow at 2 p.m. and Saturday night at 7.

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3. The Framingham Youth Council meets Sunday, March 13 at 6 p.m. via Zoom.

4. Last night, Mayor Charlie Sisitsky attended a meeting on the aqueduct with the MWRA and residents about the tree cutting.

The Mayor also attended a meeting of the Framingham Human Relations Commission last night.

Today, the Mayor is meeting with the Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest.

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5. Today is the 5-year anniversary of the devastating fire at Old Path Village Plaza.

I was the first journalist/photographer on the scene after the firefighters. This was the first photo I took at 2 a.m. in the middle of a 3-alarm fire. Firefighters battled the conditions as well as the fire as there was a snow squall along with the high winds and below 0 temperatures.

Many of the businesses, including J&M Diner, have re-opened in other locations. Some in the City and some outside the City.

SOURCE offered free advertising to all the businesses, when they re-opened, and several took the digital news outlet up on that offer in 2017.

The plaza has been re-built and now houses several new small businesses.