5 Things You Need To Know Today

5 Things: Ash Wednesday, Foxborough High School Concert, Lean Cuisine Recalls Ravioli & More

Here's five things you need to know in Foxborough for today, Feb. 13.

Editor's note: Five Things You Need To Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. If you know of something happening in town that did not make our list, please add it in the comment section! Today’s weather in Foxborough, according to the National Weather Service based in Taunton, calls for mostly sunny, with a high near 39. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Wednesday night: A chance of snow, mainly after 10 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. Little or no snow accumulation expected. The Foxborough High School and eighth grade concert band and wind ensemble will perform in concert at the high school …

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Small Business Owners Offer Tips for Expanding Services

Small business owner Linda Fuller offers tips for growing your business and offering more services to expand cliental.

There are a number of small businesses in Foxborough. Some of them may be places you and your family frequent, businesses that have been in Foxborough for as long as you can remember. And some may be your go-to places instead of national chains. Small business owner Linda Fuller is no stranger to starting a business from the ground up. In her recent interview with Patch Partners, a website connecting business owners to Patch in local communities, she offers insight into how she expanded her business’s services from just flowers to wine, beer and gourmet gift baskets at Lake Anne Florist in Reston, VA. Homework must be done first, she said. “Research what’s compatible with your own products and services, what the current trends are and what…

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Patch Q&A: Cancer Survivor Loving Life as Small Business Owner in Foxborough

Patch recently caught up with Wrentham resident June Brady-Wooding, the owner/founder of Fanautical at Patriot Place to learn more about her fun-loving/unique clothing store and hear how she overcame a rare form of bone cancer five years ago.

In 2005, Wrentham resident June Brady-Wooding's world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer just eight months after giving birth to her second child. “Through that whole process – a two-year period – I was in bed and it was really intense and I had surgery,” Brady-Wooding said. “It wasn’t a good outlook.” Doctors had little research on the cancer, telling Brady-Wooding only 200 people a year are diagnosed with her form of bone cancer. But despite the bleak outlook, Brady-Wooding overcame the odds and has been cancer free since 2007. “I never thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die,’” Brady-Wooding said. “I never thought ‘poor me.’ All I thought of was the end gain. The end gain to me was no matter what…

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