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

Today is Friday, October 12. Here are five things you need to know.

1. Gradually sunny: Today will start out cloudy with a chance of rain before clearing, according to the National Weather Service. The high will be near 55.

2. Weekend forecast: According to the National Weather Service, Saturday will be sunny with a high near 52. Sunday will be mostly cloudy with a high around 67.

3. No senior movie: There will be no movie shown at the Milton Council on Aging today. The series will pick back up next Friday at noon.

4. Become a blogger: Do you have an opinion or an area of expertise? What about a hobby or an interesting take on town happenings? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should become a Milton Patch blogger. Email adamr@patch.com with a brief description of what you'd like to blog about.

5. Weekend movie: The Milton Public Library will screen the Academy Award-winning film, To Kill a Mockingbird on Sunday at 2 p.m. The screening is part of the town-wide Milton Reads program.