5 Things You Need to Know Today, 3/6

1)  Today will be sunny, with a high near 39. Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low around 27.

2) Are you trying to research your family tree? Members of the Falmouth Genealogical Society will be on hand to help you find those elusive ancestors at the in the Lemcke Reference Room on Tuesdays from 2-4pm.

3) Take Pounds Off Sensibly (TOPS) meets at for a 6:30pm check-in and then a meeting at 7:30pm every Tuesday. For more information, please call 508-540-0622.

4) OpenCape is the new fiber optic/microwave network being built on the Cape and Islands right now. Dan Gallagher will be talking about OpenCape tonight from 7-8pm in the Hermann Room at the . In Falmouth, the libraries (Falmouth, East Falmouth, Woods Hole and West Falmouth), town buildings and science organizations in Woods Hole will be connected. The project is slated to completed by the end of the year.

5) This day in history: the Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott case (1857); the Bayer Company patents aspirin (1899); and the Rosenberg trial begins (1951).