Daily Five: A Chance for Library Immortality

1. Today should be partly sunny, with a high around 45, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight should be mostly clear, with a low around 24, according to the service. 

2. The Waterford Public Library will be accepting entries for its poster contest until May 1st to celebrate the library’s 90th birthday.

The contest is open to all Waterford children between kindergarten and fifth-grade. The poster should honor the library’s 90th birthday, as the library turns 90 this year.

There are entry forms for the contest at the library and at the libraries in Waterford’s three elementary schools. For more information, click here.

3. The addition to Waterford High School has been completed, and now workers and teachers alike are using the ongoing spring break to move into the school.

Students will be moving into the school this upcoming Monday, when spring break ends and school resumes. This week will be used as a move-in week where teachers, principals and other staff have been coming in to organize their rooms.

4. Football lovers, a new adult flag football league has started up in Norwich and it is looking for participants.

Participants have until April 7th to the sign up for the new league. It costs $20 per person to play or $200 for a six-to-10 person team. Whatever team wins the league will be awarded $1,000.

For much more information on how to sign up, click here.

5. A bad day for criminals. On this date in 1882, Robert Ford killed American outlaw Jesse James. And on this date in 1996, Ted Kaczynski, aka “The Unabomber,” was captured in his cabin in Montana.

Quote of the Day

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

-Oscar Wilde

Trivia of the Day

Oscar Wilde was jailed after being convicted of what crime?

Yesterday’s Answer: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.