5 Things You Need To Know Today: Dec. 14

1. Weather - Expect partly cloudy skies today with a high near 43 degrees. Once the sun goes down temperatures will dip into the 30's. 

2. Local Musician Battling Cancer - A Hamilton Wenham Patch Facebook user alerted us yesterday that David McWane, the frontman of the ska-punk group Big D and the Kids Table and Hamilton native is fighting cancer. T-shirts are being sold on the band's Website to help in his fight. McWane wrote Can't be Caught, a song which references Hamilton.

3. Decked out? - Is your house all decked out for the holidays? Patch is running a contest where you could win $100,000 for the Hamilton-Wenham school district. That's a good reason to throw some lights up this week.

4. Skate - Too warm to skate outside still but Pingree School is running ice skating lessons today. will run today at 1:30 p.m.

5. Superintendent Search - at 6:30 p.m.

For more things going on today, look at the events calendar.