5 Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 21

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1. Your weather report: Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 83 degrees. Tonight remain partly cloudy with an overnight low of 57 degrees. The weather is looking pretty much the same tomorrow.

2. BLOCK PARTY! WZID 95.7 is bringing a party to you! The WZID Neighborhood Block Party is on for tonight from 6-8 pm in Spaulding Field at Davis Lane and Foundry Street. Everything is FREE! Free food,entertainment including inflatables, climbing wall, music and more. Check out the Fisher Cats inflatables, meet Max from the Monarchs and have ice cream, water ice and more! Parking at Clark School and area streets. Davis Lane will accomodate parking on one sign only. Watch for "No Parking Signs".

3. Patch Fact: Today, 25 percent of homes in the United States have electronic security systems, not to mention reinforced glass, superior lock technology and a veritable army of private security guards monitoring neighborhoods.

4. Granite State scrooges. WMUR reports that a new study has shown New Hampshire to be the least generous state, giving only 2.5 percent of their discretionary income. The study was based on Internal Revenue Service records of people who itemized deductions in 2008.

5. Lyndeborough Road Update. From DPW director Bruce Berry: "A cleanup machine will return to Lyndeborough Road middle/late next week to smooth the shoulders, start placing loam and do a general fluff and buff. Culvert headers should also be completed and possibly guardrail down near Candlewood  Given the width of Lyndeborough Road, the goal was to have major reconstruction completed during summer school vacation, keeping bus traffic unimpeded and Continental made that deadline. Many people have asked 'what about the middle section'? We have designed significant drainage improvement west of Winding Hollow that will require road closures making it too late in the year to do now.  Over the next few weeks we plan to finish driveway connections, place the curbing, and raise some buried catch basins. The road will be in a semi-finished condition for the winter with just the base asphalt in place (a common practice in other communities). Early next summer, the middle will receive some of the same aggressive drainage work after which it will receive the same 2 ½ inches of base asphalt the recently constructed sections saw yesterday. We then have the ability to dress the full repaired length with an additional 1 ½ inches of asphalt."