5 Things You Need to Know Today: Jan. 17

"Five Things You Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1. There is a 70-percent chance of rain and snow today, with high of 45˚ according to the National Weather Service. Tonight there is a 50-percent chance of showers with a low of 33˚.

2. The is meeting at 7 p.m. today; Hanscom Field Advisory Committee is meeting at 7 p.m.; is meeting at 7:30 p.m.; is meeting at 7:30 p.m.

3. Cat lovers, head over to . Enjoy dinner at the Flatbread Company and take a chance in a variety of raffles and silent auctions.

4. Bring the kids to today at 11:30 a.m. and let them explore making their own music. for more information about this demo class.

5. The 2010 Ben Affleck crime drama The Town romanticized Boston-based bank robbers. While that story may be fictitious, Eastern Massachusetts, over the years, has produced some of the most cunning bank robbers the nation has ever faced. On Jan. 17, 1950, 11 men wearing rubber Halloween masks and blue chauffeur hats walked into a Brinks Armored Car depot in Boston, and walked out with $2.7 million — the largest bank robbery in American history up to that point. The last man involved was arrested in January 1956, just days before the statute of limitations ran out on the crime, but the vast majority of the $2.7 million was never recovered.