Foxborough Resident Running Boston Marathon Raises $36K for New England Patriots Charitable Foundation

Foxborough resident Mark Briggs is running with the Patriots Marathon Team with a record-breaking $206,068 raised to benefit volunteer organizations throughout New England in honor of Myra Kraft.

Foxborough resident and New England Patriots employee Mark Briggs will join fellow Patriots staff, alumni and Women's Association members to lead the Patriots Marathon Team of 34 runners to the starting line of the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15.   After months of training, meetings and fundraising, Briggs and the Patriots Marathon Team is set to run the historic race starting on Main Street in Hopkinton at 10:40 a.m. with the goal of reaching the finish line on Boylston Street while wearing an official Patriots Marathon Team jersey donated by Under Amour and All Sports Heroes in Lowell.   This year’s Patriots Marathon Team, the largest fielded in six years, set an ambitious goal of breaking the fundraising record of $150,000 …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

5 Things: Snow Likely, Marathon Runners Needed, AdCom Discusses Human Services Budgets & More

Here's five things you need to know in Foxborough for today, Jan. 16.

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 rain and snow, becoming all rain after 2 p.m. High near 35. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Wednesday night: A chance of showers before 7 p.m. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 28. Light west wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. The …

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