5 Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 14

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1. Your weather report: Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 88 degrees. Tonight will bring isolated thunderstorms with an overnight low of 67 degrees. Expect more storms to come our way tomorrow.

2. ACA meets tonight. The Amherst Citizens Association will hold a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. within Room 128 at Souhegan High School. They will be discussing how the $200K surplus from FY12 budget was spent and what the budget outlook is for FY13. They will also discuss the recently completed FY11 audit. Senate candidate Dan Dwyer will also be speaking at the meeting.

3. Patch Fact: Greek language is one of the oldest surviving branches of the Indo-European family of languages. It is related to Latin, Hittite, Old Slavic, Celtic, and the Germanic languages.

4. Lotto fever! The Powerball jackpot has grown to $305 million for Wednesday's drawing. Think you will win? We hope so.

5. Your town, your vote. Voting for our summer-styled Readers' Choice competition comes to a close on Friday! to determine the best of the best in Amherst.