Here are some of the events in towns north and west of Boston commemorating Patriots Day. For more information, go to nps.gov/mima, actonminutemen.org, westford1775.org, battleroad.org, and www.woburnhistoricalsociety.org. Saturday

Fire destroys two stores in Roslindale
Mirta Zabala climbed over clumps of charred wood, drenched insulation, rusty nails, and broken glass. She emerged from her salon with soggy boxes of soot-covered hair products.

Mystic River gets D rating from EPA
The Mystic River receives its first official cleanliness report card today. The grade is nothing to brag about: The Environmental Protection Agency rates it D, as in very dirty.

A writer’s corporate world leaves convention at the door
In Floyd Kemske’s ironic corporate nightmare novels, an everyday office setting becomes the stage for the paranormal and bizarre.

Hospital expansion is scaled back
Responding to residents’ concerns, Winchester Hospital has scaled back a plan to build a new healthcare complex on Washington Street. The move is a step in the right direction, neighbors say, but more accommodations must be made before the hospital expansion is welcomed.

Haydn oratorio is a loose and engaging event
Haydn’s second oratorio, “The Seasons,” has never had the popularity and acclaim enjoyed by “The Creation,” his first. Based on a popular Scottish poem, “The Seasons” is a bucolic portrait of 18th-century country life, complete with plowmen, shepherds, a hunt, and a wine-soaked feast. Haydn himself found the pastoral subject matter banal, complaining that while his narrators in the biblical …

Savoring high school play
Many tennis players with Cameron Ghorbani’s capabilities don’t bother with high school competition. His doubles partner on the New England tournament circuit, for example, Somerville’s Mesa Mei, doesn’t play scholastically.

Leopard headlines are spotty, at best
Apple said last week that it is delaying the release of its new Macintosh operating system…alled Leopard to shift resources… College Football | Erickson has blunt evaluation Coach Dennis Erickson offered no false optimism as he wrapped up his first spring at Arizona State. “We’ve got a long ways to go,” […]

‘Tourists’ deftly plumbs post-college discontents
“The Tourists” is an intriguingly apt title for Jeff Hobbs’s debut novel about four Yale-graduate Manhattanites as they near 30 and finally begin to take stock. They are, in fact, tourists in their own lives, never fully engaged with much beyond their insular social circles and mired in a kind of pervasive malaise and voyeuristic disconnect.

Six-figure ZIP codes
It pays to live in Carlisle or Harvard. These enclaves of small-town New England top the list of wealthy ZIP codes northwest of Boston, according to a Globe analysis of income-tax filers with incomes of $100,000 or more.

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