Five Things You Need to Know Today: Oct. 17

1) Weather Watch — National Weather Service forecasters are predicting a mostly sunny day with a high temperature near 68.

2) Tide Watch — Today's low tide is 9:49 am (1.60 ft). High tide is 4:02 pm (8.96 ft). The sun will rise at 6:59 am and set at 5:56 pm. 

3) Swampscott Scrambler — Unscramble these letters to spell the name of a Swampscott person, place or thing (answer to be posted tomorrow):

ERAAPN

Friday's answer: Football

4) In Music History —  In 1967,  the musical Hair premiered at New York's Public Theatre. The show ran for 1,758 performances. (From on-this-day-in-history.)

5) Planning Watch — Themeets at the at 7. Agenda items include Selectman Barry Greenfield who will talk about development ideas for the train station area.