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When the District 12 Challenger team from Malden was invited to play at the Little League World series this weekend, a farflung team of supporters swung into action. 

“Cyclocross is a miserable experience,” says one devoted enthusiast. Yet the sport continues to enjoy an almost cult-like status in Eastern Massachusetts. 

The new Jefferson Elementary School would house all first- through fourth-graders on a central campus near the high school and middle school. 

Four girls from Girls Inc., Lynn got the rare opportunity to see their sketches transformed into expensive, high-end jewelry.  

The Framingham History Center presents “‘In a Good Cause,’ Framingham and the Fight for Woman’s Suffrage,” on Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. at Village Hall on the Common. 

People fight about random things, a woman with green fingernails appears to scope out mailboxes, and other odd tales from local police blotters. 

Sweat Fixx, a fitness studio specializing in low-impact, high-intensity full body workouts is opening a location in downtown Amesbury. 

To the Moon and Back, an advocacy nonprofit focused on children exposed to opioids before birth, is hosting its Second Annual Adult Prom Night benefit fund-raiser. 

It would be impossible to hold a grudge if you woke up a different age every day. You’d forget who you were mad at. So there would be no wars. And brothers and sisters who haven’t talked in years would talk. Because if they were kids for a day, they’d play. They’d laugh. And they’d remember. 

A 1½-year-old Watertown restaurant serves authentic Vietnamese and Thai cuisine. 

A sampling of things to do and see in communities west of Boston 

King Richards’s Faire, a Renaissance festival, features rides, games, knights battling on horseback, sword-making, glass-blowing, portrait and face painting, and psychic readings. 

“Jersey Boys,” the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is being performed through Sunday, Sept. 1 at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. 

The Newton teachers union likely will start the academic year without a new contract in place, much to teachers’ frustration. 

The third annual Family Campout is scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Kelly Field. 

A cluster of seven towns including Hopkinton have been deemed to be at critical risk for Eastern equine encephalitis after the latest round of mosquito pool testing in the area. 

Starting on Sunday, Sept. 1, the Route 95 bus will add stops on High Street in Medford and Medford Street in Arlington Center.  

The next hike is scheduled for Sept. 15, and will cover 2 miles through Clapboardtree Meadow and the adjacent 23 acres of mature woods. 

About 150 people drank lemonade and chalked pro-tolerance messages on the sidewalks at Halloran Park where chalked swastikas had been found four days earlier.  

T. Andrew Reardon said he “may have been distracted by reaching for his reading glasses to read an incoming text” when he caused a four-car accident that sent him and three others to the hospital. 

The first two samples of Eastern equine encephalitis in Essex County this year were detected Aug. 16 in Andover, according to state officials. 

Somerville is inviting residents to participate in a citywide effort in September to remember those lost to the opiate epidemic and support families affected by it.  

As a result of an informal vote by city residents, Salem is set to name its newest park at 289 Derby St. after local 19th century abolitionist Charlotte Forten. 

The City Council recently authorized borrowing $1.5 million for planning and design of the station, which would replace the existing headquarters on Main Street.  

New restaurants are helping to transform Hull from a sleepy town known mostly for an amusement park that closed in 1984 into a foodie destination.  

Ventress Memorial Library will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, combining memories of those who enjoyed the festival with an introduction for a younger generation to the music and culture of the 1960s.  

Northborough residents Tom and Dana Moore were co-ops at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., when NASA launched Apollo 11. 

The Boston Globe is increasing its coverage of Newton by partnering with a Boston University journalism class. We want to hear what you feel are the most important issues in your community. Send your tips, thoughts and ideas below.  

Alexis Nickole of Saugus netted the first penalty kick in shootout and Wilmington’s Tess O’Connell added another for Dushawne Simpson-directed girls’ soccer squad. 

Claudia Price and her pre-schoolers at Lilja Elementary are doing their part to protect the colorful butterflies.