Learn To Skate Program, Coffeehouse Concert In Lynnfield This Week

Today is Monday, January 6. Here are five things worth knowing today. 

Lynnfield Recreation has announced a new Learn to Skate program starting Thursday, January 9 at the MarketStreet Lynnfield rink. The program for ages 3 and up runs from 3 to 4 p.m. for ight weeks, with a 10 to 11 a.m. lesson the school vacation week of Feb. 20. A certified instructor will reportedly teach skating backwards and forward, plus stopping, turning and balancing. A helmet is required, skate rentals available. Call Julie Mallett at 781-334-9488 or register at this link from the Lynnfield Recreation website. 

On the second and fourth Friday of the month, the Lynnfield Community Church at 735 Salem Street hosts a coffeehouse style concert. Tonight from 7:45 to 9 p.m., Bob and Jenn Strom are the performers. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free will donation for the performers.

Bluegrass band Southern Rail performs at the next Linden Tree Coffeehouse event at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street in Wakefield – Friday, January 11 at 8 p.m. Click here to learn more.

Town Business: The Lynnfield Board of Selectmen next meets on Monday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. 

The Lynnfield Board of Health has announced that its next flu clinic is Tuesday, January 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at town hall. Click here to learn more.