Five Things: School Budget Hearing Tonight

1) Sunny and windy. Today will be sunny and windy, with a high of 42. Tonight will be clear, with a low of 25.

2) School Board holds budget public hearing: The School Board will hold a public hearing on the school budget tonight at 7 in Moose Hill Council Chambers at Londonderry Town Hall.

3) Wildlife biologist to speak. Eric Orff, a retired New Hampshire Fish and Game Department wildlife biologist, will speak at the Leach Library at 7 tonight. According to The Eagle-Tribune, he'll be talking about the impact of climate change on the state's animal and fish population.

4) Interested in running for office? The Londonderry town filing period opens Jan. 23.

5) On this day in 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produced an enormous gusher of crude oil, signaling the advent of the American oil industry. Following the discovery, petroleum, which until that time had been used in the U.S. primarily as a lubricant and in kerosene for lamps, would become the main fuel source for new inventions such as cars and airplanes; coal-powered forms of transportation including ships and trains would also convert to the liquid fuel.