5 Things You Need to Know Today, 4/26

1) Today showers are likely, mainly after 5pm, along with increasing clouds, with a high near 53. Tonight showers are likely, mainly before 7pm. Otherwise, it will be cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 49. 

2) The Falmouth Senior Center is starting a new class, “Having Fun Writing Poetry,” on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 1-2:30pm at the . Writers of any level are welcome; group members will give encouragement and gentle help. No experience is needed. Call the Senior Center to register at 508-540-0196.

3) A weekly afternoon parent chat with Carol DiFalco, MS, LMHC will be held each Thursday from 1-2pm at the . This is a drop-in parenting group for caregivers with children 1-5 years. Limited childcare will be available. For more information, please call 508-548-0151 x 172.

4) Ready for some traditional Irish music? Come on down to tonight for the best pint this side of the pond, and at 7pm, get your toes tapping to some jigs and reels with Rossacroo-na-loo while enjoying some of Chef Dave's famous recipes.

5) This day in history: polio vaccine trials begin (1954); legendary nightclub Studio 54 opens (1977); and the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl takes place (1986).