Community Corner

Salem Annual Action Plan Hearing Tonight

Here are the five things you need to know before you start your day in Salem.


Today is Thursday, Jan. 16, and here are the five things you need to know: 

1. It should be another nice day in Salem. The National Weather Service is predicting that local residents can expect it to be mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Tonight should be mostly cloudy, with a low near 32. (sunrise, 7:10 a.m.; high tide, 11:11 a.m.; sunset, 4:36 p.m.; low tide, 5:26 p.m.)

2. Local residents are invited to offer their suggestions at a public hearing regarding the city's Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Action Plan tonight. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in the third floor meeting room of the City Hall Annex on Washington Street. Click Here for more information.

3. The family of a Salem woman killed in a fatal accident at the 2011 Yale-Harvard football game is suing 86 current and former members of Yale's Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, WCVB News is reporting

4. The Planning Board meeting scheduled for tonight has been cancelled, according to this post on the city's website.

5. Today in History: On Jan. 16, 1786, Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

For more things going on in Salem today, check out our events calendar


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