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5 Things To Know Today: Wednesday, Jan. 25

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

• The Redding Zoning Commission meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the hearing room at .

• There will be a brown bag lunch with , Weston's superintendent of schools, at 1:30 p.m. at the town hall annex. This is the first of three such lunches, which will be open each to 20 residents in attendance. To register, contact Lynne Ohmes at lohmes@westonk12-ct.org or call 203-291-1401.

• The Easton Animal Shelter Building Committee meets tonight at 7 p.m. in the meeting room at the Easton Police Department.

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• On this day in 1947, gangster Al Capone died at the age of 48 after suffering a stroke resulting in cardiac arrest.

• On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy hosted the first live televised presidential news conference.

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