Five Things: Casino Bill Hits Senate Floor

1. TODAY'S FORECAST: Today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 38, followed by partly cloudy skies and a low of 18.

2. CASINO BILL HITS SENATE FLOOR: The next step in the legislative cycle of the expanded gambling bill arrives today as it gets taken up on the state Senate floor in Concord. We will have full coverage on Patch.

3. AUTHOR VISIT: Children's Author and Illustrator Marty Kelley will visit with families from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Golden Brook gymnasium.

4. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.

5. HELP WINDHAM PATCH TO 1,000 'LIKES': The race is heating up to see whether Windham Patch of Bedford Patch get to 1,000 'likes' on Facebook first. We saw a surge during the town election that brought us near 900, but our work is not done. The first editor to reach the mark gets a free dinner from the other, so let's show Bedford why Windham is superior! Click here to 'like' Windham Patch on Facebook.