Cary Memorial Building in Lexington MA, on Tuesday evening during the 2022 midterms
Cary Memorial Building is the polling place for voters in precincts 4 and 6. (Sophie Culpepper / LexObserver)

Hello, Lexington!

Good morning and welcome to LexObserver’s Friday news roundup.

Thank you so much to everyone who attended yesterday’s community conversation, and thank you to all of our panelists and partners for making the event happen! We plan to share a recap of some highlights next week for anyone who missed it.

In the meantime…we’d love if you’d take six minutes out of your day to take a survey about LexObserver that our excellent intern, Susanne Beck, put together:

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Thanks so much, and here’s this week’s news.

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Nicco Mele, Sophie Culpepper, Erin Sandler-Rathe, Susanne Beck and the LexObserver Team

Edited by Lauren Feeney

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