1. Happy Fourth of July, Easton!
If you haven't seen fireworks yet, there are plenty of places to go tonight! Check out our list of fireworks in the Easton area.
2. The Frothingham Park Children's Races scheduled for tomorrow have been canceled. For more information, click here.
3. Baseball slugger Adrian Gonzalez and Eastern Bank will award one lucky winner $2,500 in cash in the “Mentoring Wins” sweepstakes, which will also generate funds for five youth mentoring programs in eastern Massachusetts.
Gonzalez and Eastern Bank will together donate $5.00 per entry for the first 6,000 total sweepstakes entries received to a fund that will be distributed evenly among five local youth mentoring programs.
The sweepstakes, which runs July 2 to Aug. 13, is hosted on Eastern Bank’s Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/easternbank. The promotion is open to Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire residents and will help mentoring programs at the Brockton YMCA among other organizations.
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