Five Things You Need to Know Today: February 11

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1. Today’s weather will be mostly sunny with a high of 28. The overnight low will be 19 under partly cloudy skies.
2. Kelly Hurley, District ASD, will be the special guest at SEPAC’s Parent Coffee today. The meeting takes place at 9:30 a.m. at Panera Bread.
3. at the Needham Library today from 3 to 3:45 p.m. This is a drop-in program and adults are required to attend with children.
4. Cici Hunt will for ages three to five today. Registration is required.
5. On this day in 2008, J.R.R. Tolkien’s heirs filed a $150 million lawsuit against New Line Cinema. The suit alleged that New Line Cinema, which produced Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings on film, failed to pay them their proper share of the films’ collective gross. The parties settled out of court.