Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.
1. The biggest tip: call ahead! But Tougas Family Farm is in full strawberry picking swing. Find out the hours and get the updated pickers line right here.
2. According to its Facebook page, "It's Carnival Week on the Tumblebus! The kids swing on the trapeze bar, hurdle the horse mat, throw bean bags at the target, do the monkey bars and walk the tightrope (balance beam). At the end of class the kids take a few turns on the zip line."
3. Northborough Patch is talking to the chief of police today, live, and online. We welcome your questions, and welcome you to sign in and chat with us. We're sure you've all had something you've wanted to know. Here are the deets.
4. The Graphic Novel Book Club meets this evening at the Northborough Free Library.
5. According to history.com, Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east."