Daily Five: Big-Time Gambling in Lyme, Still Lightness in Old Lyme, and Meetings, then no Meetings, in East Lyme

1. Today will be mostly sunny with a high of 56 degrees, according to weather.com. There's a 20 percent chance of rain with increasing clouds overnight, when temperatures will drop to about 48 degrees. 

2. With kids off this week, it's a slow week for meetings as many people are away. There were no board of selectmen meetings in either East Lyme or Old Lyme this week and no board of education meetings, but tonight there will be a Zoning Commission meeting at East Lyme Town Hall, despite the fact that the chairman is away on vacation. 

3. Former congressman Bob Steele will be at Lyme Public Library tonight to discuss his book "The Curse: Big-Time Gambling's Seduction of a Small New England Town." The talk begins at 7 p.m. and free copies of the book will be available at the event. Call (860) 434-2272 for information. 

4. There's an art opening tonight at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library at 2 Library Lane in Old Lyme from 5 to 7 p.m. The show, "Still Lightness: Digital Prints," features works by Randall Anway. If you can't make it to the opening, don't worry. The exhibit is up through May 31. 

5. The State of East Lyme presentation that was advertised on the Discover East Lyme website as happening today at Main Street Grille at 8 a.m. is no more, or at least, it's no longer posted on the web site. It seems that last Friday's "State of East Lyme" presentation at East Lyme Town Hall orchestrated by the Southeastern Chamber of Commerce supplanted it. The breakfast, however, was still catered by Main Street Grille.