Five Things you Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

Today is Thursday, September 13. Here are five things you need to know.

1. Sunny Thursday: Today will be sunny with a high near 81, according to the National Weather Service.

2. Milton High open house: The Milton High School open house is scheduled for tonight. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.

3. Planning Board meeting: The Milton Planning Board will meet at 6:30 this evening in Town Hall’s Carol Blute Conference Room.

4. Milton Reads starts Saturday: The events for Milton Reads One Town; One Book program starts on Saturday, September 15. Click here for the schedule.

5. Art gallery: The Milton Public Library is currently displaying the work of Harriet Kuliopulos in the Wotiz Gallery. See Kuliopulos’s paintings whenever the library is open.