$45,000 For Design Questioned

1. The weather should be nice today, with a high of 43 and mostly sunny, and dropping down to 26 tonight, according to the National Weather Service.
2. Today is make-up day for any student at Clark Lane Middle School who missed a Connecticut Mastery Test. And at Great Neck Elementary School, all students will have an assembly featuring Adam Battelstein and his LocoMotion dance performance.
3. The board of finance continues its budget review at 7 p.m. Tonight is all the building and planning-related commissions, from the conservation commission to the building department. There are several employees, mostly administrators, who are slated to have a salary increase; those increases will all likely be cut by the board.
4. The animal shelter ad-hoc committee meets tonight at 5:30. The committee has put in a $45,000 request to the town to design a . Several board of finance members have scoffed at this request. Do you think the town should spend $45,000 designing a new animal shelter?
5. On this date in 1995, astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride on a Russian spaceship. Also on this date in 1964, Jack Ruby is found guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald.

Quote of the Day

“Well done is better than well said.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Trivia of the Day

What baseball player-turned-coffeemaker promoter married (and divorced) Marilyn Monroe?

Yesterday’s answer: Tom got it. You simply swim across the river, as all the crocodiles are at the animal kingdom meeting.