Five Things You Need To Know Today, June 7

Here are five things you need to know today:

1) Really?!: Come on, Mother Nature. Quit it with the rain already, would ya? The National Weather Service is expecting clouds with a chance of showers again today, along with possible thunderstorms this afternoon. Temperatures will be in the high 60s, close to 70 degrees.

2) Recreation Commission: The Recreation Commission is meeting tonight at City Hall at 7 p.m. The board will hear from the Parks Superintendent and will also discuss spring and summer programs and summer employees. 

3) Event spotlight: All school year, teachers, therapists, lunch monitors, paraprofessionals, doctors and others have helped Special Education students in Woburn Public Schools. Tonight, the Woburn Special Education Parent Advisory Council will celebrate them all with the . The fun begins at 7 p.m. at .

4) In case you missed it: The city's ongoing issue with installation of residential water meters was the topic of discussion at the City Council meeting Tuesday night. Find out .

5) An actual WMD program in Iraq?: On this day in 1981, the Israeli air force launched Operation Opera, also known as Operation Babylon, that destroyed a partially-built nuclear reactor in Iraq, about 10 miles southeast of Baghdad. Iraq had purchased the reactor, named Osirak, from France, the two countries insisted its purpose was for peaceful scientific research, but the Israelis believed the Iraqis were planning to build nuclear weapons.

To find out what's going on today in Woburn, check out our events listings.