5 Things You Need to Know Today: July 1

[Your Song of the Day]

1. Your Amherst weather report: Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 81 degrees. Tonight will be clear with an overnight low of 62 degrees. Tomorrow is looking to be pretty much the same.

2. Stay safe! Check out to ensure a worry-free holiday. We didn't forget about your furry friends and as well.

3. Patch Fact: The U.S. Tax Code is currently more than 70,000 pages long -- roughly the equivalent of 33 Oxford English Dictionaries.

4. Pick the best in Amherst! We want YOU to tell us the best of the best in your town with our . We are accepting nominations until July 9 in categories like , ,  and. See the rest 

5. Congrats! The following Amherst students have been named to the dean's list for the spring 2012 semester at the University of Vermont: Timothy A. Andreasen, a junior majoring in Business Administration, Michelle R. Goldsmith, a first-year student majoring in Secondary Education English, Sarah M. Hahn, a senior majoring in Secondary Education Social Sciences and Michael E. Kosofsky of , a sophomore majoring in Biology. To be named to the dean's lists, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.