Darien Morning Briefing, Sept. 27

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2011.

HEADLINES

EVENTS & REMINDERS

• Flu Shot Clinic: Today from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the Darien Health Department will conduct a flu shot clinic at the Darien Senior Center. .
• Meet the Author: Drop by the today at 7 p.m. for an appearance by Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading. Details here.
• Short Stories for Short Days: Carroll Stenson leads a weekly discussion on short stories at the library from 3 to 4 p.m. Copies of the stories are available for pickup at the Welcome Desk during the week prior to each meeting.
• American Flag Project: From now until Oct. 1, a photographic exhibit by Steven Willard titled "" will be on display in the library's art gallery.
• Children of the Desert: From now until Oct. 29, the  hosts "Bana Ba Motlhaba: Children of the Desert," featuring photographs by Dave Hamman and Botswanan crafts. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays.

DARIEN PLAYHOUSE SHOWTIMES

• Dolphin Tale: 7:00 p.m. (1 hr. 52 min.)
• Contagion: 7:00 p.m. (1 hr. 45 min.)

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

• Environmental Protection Commission: 6:30 p.m., room 213 [agenda]
• Board of Education: 7:30 p.m., BOE meeting room [agenda]
• Planning and Zoning Commission: 8:00 p.m., room 206 [agenda]

FORECAST

• Tuesday: Areas of dense fog before 9 a.m. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. East wind between 3 and 7 mph. 
• Tuesday night: A chance of showers after midnight. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 62. East wind between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
  

TIDES & TIMES

• Low tide: 5:35 a.m. (-0.6')
• Sunrise: 6:46 a.m.
• High tide: 11:37 a.m. (8.9')
• Low tide: 6:06 p.m. (-0.9')
• Sunset: 6:43 p.m.

TODAY IN HISTORY

• 1066: William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
• 1540: The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
• 1905: The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
• 1908: The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1964: The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

Forecast obtained from the National Weather Service; tide information obtained from saltwatertides.com (calibrated to Long Neck Point); 'Today in History' items compiled from Wikipedia and other sources.