Daily Five: Farmers Market, Halloween Town, Cholera Vaccine

1. Mostly sunny skies today with a high of about 65. Sunrise is at 7:14 a.m. and sunset is at 5:51 p.m.

2. The Field of Greens Farmers Market visits Parade Plaza for the last time of the season today. Get some local products and goods between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

3. New London Halloween Town is back! Trick-or-treating, hay rides, spooky displays, a haunted corn maze, and other fun will take place downtown from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

4. Have you explored the tabs on the New London Patch? Don’t forget to look under “More Stuff” to check out the Commute, Grocery Specials, and Volunteer sections.

5. Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian bacteriologist, died on this day in 1930 at the age of 70. Haffkine is best known for developing a vaccine for cholera, which he tested on himself before traveling to India to inoculate thousands of people against the disease.

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