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5 Things You Need to Know Today: April 26

Support Hopkinton Little League Tonight and tell us who should run with Mitt Romney.

Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1. Tonight at Cornell's Hopkinton Little League will be holding a fundraiser. Pick Your Number Night runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and you can choose your lucky number when you buy your $10,000 Draw ticket. 2. Are you interested in racing against other Hopkinton runners on a 5k? Sign up today for the Sharon Timlin Memorial 5k to help support ALS research and see if you can bring home the gold. The race will be held June 10 at Hopkinton Middle School. 3. Did you get a chance to vote in our poll about who Mitt Romney should pick as his running mate for the 2012 election? …

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PHOTOS: Hopkinton says Goodbye to April

Saturday gives way to clouds, can't bring itself to rain on yard sales, baseball, HopSwap (mostly indoors anyway) or Green Expo (all indoors).

Hopkinton said goodbye to the last day of April 2011 with well-timed yard sales clearing out the clutter, kids playing baseball and an appreciation of the environment with Earth Day events. New York Times had an outdoors writer in the 1940s, 50s and 60s named Hal Borland who wrote, "April is a promise that May is bound to keep."   It was a perfect description of Saturday where, as you'll see in the first photo, people wrapped in scarves and blankets sat next to people in T-shirts and shorts. And they all looked pretty comfortable.

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