5 Things To Know Today: Thursday, March 8

• The Redding Board of Assessment Appeals meets this afternoon at 4 p.m. in the hearing room at .

• The Weston Board of Finance regular meeting scheduled for tonight has been cancelled.

• There's a book discussion at the Weston Public Library this morning at 10:30 a.m. The books in question? A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McClain.

• The New York Stock Exchange was founded on this day in 1817.

• Happy 36th birthday to actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.