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Early snow brushes over Boston area

By Taylor M. Miles

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  October 27, 2011

Snow greeted Boston with a light -- and early -- first fall of the season, but the wintry weather made a much more forceful introduction in central and western parts of the state, where some areas collected up to three inches. The town of Ashfield in Franklin County led the state with the heaviest snow fall at 3.2 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The first reports of snow in the greater Boston area came around 9 p.m.

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