5 Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 3

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. Have coffee with new Superintendent of Schools Jay Cummings at 9 a.m. at the School Department, 30 Providence Road.

2. Make Antarctic chillers at 2 p.m. at , 33 Grafton Common.

3. Rock out to Jumpin’ Juba at 6 p.m. on the Grafton Common as part of the Concert on the Common series.

4. Christopher Columbus set sail on this day in 1492 from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. He landed in the New World just in time for Columbus Day.

5. Today’s forecast: Mix of sun and clouds, high 84, low 66.