This announcement was posted on the Needham town website today.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
With Halloween being celebrated with trick or treating by Needham’s children, parents are urged to exercise extra caution in helping to keep their children safe during this post-Hurricane Sandy period where cleanup and power restoration is still being performed. 1. Route planning is very important. Know where your children will be traveling. If possible, walk with them. If they are going out unsupervised, make sure they travel in a group. 2. For greater visibility during dusk and darkness, decorate or trim costumes with reflective tape that will glow in the beam of a car’s headlights. Bags or sacks should also be light colored or decorated with reflective tape. Reflective tape is usually available in hardware, bicycle and sporting goods …
More than 1,000 NSTAR customers in town were still without power as of Tuesday night.
Though crews throughout town worked Tuesday to clean up after Hurricane Sandy, more than 1,000 NSTAR customers in Needham were still without power as of 9 p.m. Among those without power for most of the day were several businesses along Highland Avenue near the Needham Heights Common—Starbucks, Café Fresh Bagel, CVS and Brookline Bank all were closed on Tuesday, and the traffic lights at West Street and Highland were out, with temporary stop signs set up to control traffic. Throughout the day, Needham residents posted on Facebook and Twitter about which areas were still without power, including businesses in the Crawford Street and Kearney Road area and homes on South Street at Livingston Circle and Elmwood Road. In many neighborhoods, …
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Share your photos of the damage and work being done around town today following Monday's big storm.
[UPDATED Tuesday, 7 p.m.] Crews around town are working to clean up Needham after Hurricane Sandy blew through on Monday. See a road block or safety hazard? Got some great pictures from during the storm or of the aftermath? Click the "upload" button at the top or bottom of this image gallery to add your pictures. And be sure to share traffic alerts and other important information with your neighbors by tweeting @NeedhamPatch or adding it in the comments below.
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