Politics & Government

Friday's Stoughton Patch Storm Center:Town Has 9.5 Inches of Snow as of 8 a.m

There will be no school today in Stoughton, because of the storm. Southeastern Regional and Norfolk Aggie are also off Friday.

As of 8 a.m., the Stoughton Police Department was reporting that the town had received 9.5 inches of snow. They are also asking people to stay home if at all possible to let the police, fire and public works department handle the storm.

If you lose power, National Grid wants you call 1-800-465-1212. You can also track or report a live outage using their interactive map: http://ngrid.com/wawRlw


Governor Deval Patrick has closed all state offices Friday, Jan. 3. He also asked employers to allow their workers to stay home and off the road.

You are advised not to go out if don't have in the morning to allow for the storm to end or for the clean-up to take place.

Blue Hills Ski Area is reporting more a foot of powder storm from last night's storm. They are open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The Stoughton High-Franklin girls' basketball game scheduled for Friday night at home has been moved to Saturday, Jan. 4. The freshman game will be at 10 a.m., followed by junior varsity game and the varsity game at 1 p.m.

At 12:30 a.m., WBZ-TV increased the project snowfall totally to be in the 14-18 inch range in the Stoughton area.

STORM INFORMATION

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Stay tuned for more updates.

For the latest weather news, go to our friends at WHDH-TV.

Important numbers and websites:

  • In an emergency, dial 911
  • Police Department: 781-344-2424
  • Fire Department: (Freeman Street), 781-344-3122 or 781-341-9866, (Central Street) 781-344-3170 oe 781-341-4084
  • DPW: 781-344-2112
  • Comcast: 1-800-COMCAST (1-800-266-2278)
  • Verizon: 1-800-VERIZON (1-800-837-4966
  • MBTA Service updates
  • National Grid: Customers can receive text message alerts and updates by texting the word STORM to NGRID (64673) to follow the storm on their mobile devices by using the National Grid mobile app. The company also provides real time outage information on its Outage Central web site at https://www1.nationalgridus.com/CorporateHub




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