TODAY IN TOWN - 1/11/11

~Today will be 18-32 degrees and sunny with 5 mph Northern winds.
~Tonight will start the snow storm: it wil be 26 degrees, heavy snow and NE winds blowing 20 mph. Connecticut is expected to get 10-20" between Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

Town Events

MUSEUM PASSES

Levi Coe Library now has the following museum passes, which offer either free or reduced admission: CT State Parks & Forests Day Pass, Mystic Aquarium, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and CT's Old State House. Please call 860-349-3857 for more info.

CRHS PARENTS FORUM

The CRHS Parents Forum will be held in the CRHS library at 7 p.m. The topic is the National Honon Society, what it is and how students are chosen. All are welcome.

Town Meetings

DURHAM

~The Conservation Commission will meet at the Durham Library at 7:30 p.m.

MIDDLEFIELD

~There are no meetings in Middlefield today

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FUN FACTS OF THE DAY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~Today in 49 BCE, Julius Ceasar led his army across the Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war.
~Today in 1805,  The Michigan Territory was created.
~Today in 1861, Alabama seceded from the Union.
~Today in 1935, Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California, that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
~Today in 1940, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., became the United States Army's first black general.
~Today in 1964,  US Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
~Today in 1973, The American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule in baseball.
~Today in 2001, Declaring the death penalty "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, emptying his state's death row 2 days before leaving office.