5 Things You Need to Know Today: Sept. 30

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. Learn about painting in pastels at a workshop at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 at the

2. The South Grafton Firefighters Association will have a sizzling good time at the steak fry, to be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 at, 94 Main St., South Grafton.

3. The dead break their silence at the cemetery tour to be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2 at , 56 Millbury St.

4. Everywhere we look, we see her eyes: Angie Dickinson turns 80 today.

5. Today’s forecast: Partly cloudy, high 76, low 51.