Fireworks 9:30 p.m. Szot Park, Front Street. As it tradition, the fireworks will be shot off from the back of Bemis Pond and are best viewed from the upper fields or inside the stadium of Szot Park, which will be open for the event.

The day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the 13 former British colonies on July 4, 1776.

Massachusetts became the first state to recognize the Fourth of July as a statewide holiday in 1781.