5 Things You Need to Know Today: Oct. 6

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. Farmers Market is winding down for the season. Take advantage now by visiting starting at 2 p.m. on the Common.

 2.  Go line dancing with the at the gym. The program is free, but donations are accepted to the Grafton Food Bank.

3. The will meet at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Center.

4. Today is German-American Day. The day commemorates this date in 1683 when German families from Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia and subsequently founded Germantown, Penn., the first German settlement in the original 13 colonies.

5. Today’s forecast: Sunny, high 60, low 35.