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5 Things To Know Today: Thursday, May 31

Here's your local guide to what's happening today in Weston, Redding and Easton.

• Today is BarlowPalooza! From 5 to 8 p.m. tonight, will be celebrating its sixth annual festival, which includes music, art, academic achievement, EMT certfication and community spirit.

• Need something for the little ones to do? There's preschool story time at the Easton Public Library at 2:15 p.m., and story time for kindergartners and up at 4 p.m.

• On this day in 1879, Gillmore Gardens was renamed Madison Square Garden. The building was located on 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

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• On this day in 1927, the last Model T rolled off the Ford assembly line. More than 15 million Model Ts were made. 

• Happy 69th birthday to former Jets quarterback Joe Namath. 

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