Daily Five: More Cancellations, NEAR Shoemaker, Chorus Line

1. Snow showers are in the forecast for Thursday and the weekend. But today it's partly cloudy with temperatures reaching 38 degrees and dropping to 25 degrees overnight. Sunrise is 6:47 a.m., sunset is 5:19 p.m.

2. Some things are coming back, some aren't. City offices reopen today but New London Public Schools are closed and trash/recycling pickup will not take place. The Penguin Plunge fundraiser for the Special Olympics has been moved from Sunday to March 10. Gives you more time to support the Patch Plungers, you know.

3. The Garde Arts Center brings in the Broadway performance A Chorus Line today and Wednesday. Both performances start at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $60.

4. The Penguin Plunge news came to us via an announcement. Readers have the ability to post these as well as events on the site. Find out more about this process here.

5. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, the first probe to land on the surface of an asteroid, touched down on Eros on this day in 2001.

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