5 Things You Need to Know Today: June 24

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. School's out for the year. Remember that children will be out and about so drive safely.

2. "Around the World in 80 Days'' will be screened at 2 p.m. at 33 Grafton Common, part of the summer reading program.

3. Learn about Native American life tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Grafton Public Library, when Cheryll Holley of the Nipmuc Tribe shows what life was like for members of this Grafton tribe long ago.

4. On this day in 1664, the colony of  New Jersey was founded. Snooki was, mercifully, nowhere to be found.

5. Today's forecast: Thunderstorms, high 74, low 57.