Here are five things you need to know today in Woburn:

1) Deck Your House?

Did you deck your house out for the holidays? Then you need to enter it in our Patch Deck The House contest! Enter here by uploading your photo on the special Woburn Deck the House page. 

2) Sports this week

Looking to catch some sports in action? Woburn Memorial High School has several games, matches and meets on the schedule: 

• Tuesday—girls and boys basketball, wrestling
• Wednesday—girls and boys track, girls ice hockey
• Thursday—wrestling
• Saturday—girls and boys ice hockey

3) Patch in your Inbox

Everyone gets busy during the day. Whether you're working 9 to 5, or taking care of the kids, our days fly by with activity after activity. Make it easy to stay in touch with Woburn Patch—sign-up for our daily or weekly newsletter. News will come straight to your inbox and will be waiting for you whenever you have time to read it! Click here to sign-up today!

4) In case you missed it

Did you miss anything in Woburn Police news last week? Be sure to catch up with them on our Woburn Police home page. 

5) Headline in history

Let's take a walk through Woburn's history, shall we? A headline in the newspaper regarding Dec. 14 events in Woburn was:

• 1971—Woburn Authority Buys Land From Chairman—Woburn Industrial Park discussion.  

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