5 Things To Know Today: Aug. 23

Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. Play Scrabble at 9:30 a.m. at , 30 Providence Road.

2. New students tour at 10 a.m.

3. First aid training at 6 p.m. at t, 26 Upton St.

4. On this date in 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for killing two men in a 1920 armed robbery. Questions remain about their guilt.

5. Today’s forecast: Sunny, high 77, low 55.