Daily Five: No School, Meetings Postponed, Edison

1. From a lot of snow to a lot of rain. Showers in the morning give way to steady precipitation today, finally clearing late tonight. The high temperature reaches 46 degrees and drops to 34 degrees overnight. Sunrise is 6:48 a.m., sunset is 5:18 p.m.

2. Due to continued storm response and hazardous road conditions, New London Public Schools and non-essential city offices are closed today. See more closings in this article.

3. Two municipal meetings scheduled for tonight - the Public Safety Committee on the deadlock over how to address police complaints in the Police-Community Relations Committee and the Economic Development Committee meeting on a city marketing proposal - have been postponed to a later date.

4. Get a synopsis of how the winter sports teams are doing with the New London Sports Roundup. This takes a look at the city’s high school and college teams and posts at 5 p.m. on Mondays.

5. Thomas Edison, an inventor who acquired 1,093 patents during his life including the phonograph and incandescent light bulb, was born on this day in 1847. Edison died in 1931 at the age of 84.

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