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This Weekend's Happenings: June 8 to 10

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Today is Friday, June 8, the 160th day of the year and World Oceans Day.

Today's Headlines

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Events & Reminders: Friday, June 8

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Events & Reminders: Saturday, June 9

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Sunday, June 10

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Today's Weather 

Friday in Middlebury: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming west between 6 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

Friday Night in Middlebury: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10 p.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.

Friday in Woodbury: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Patchy fog before 7 a.m. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming west between 6 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night in Woodbury: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11 p.m., then a slight chance of showers between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Patchy fog after 3 a.m. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.

Today in History

793: Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfame in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

1789: James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution in the House of Representative. By 1791, 10 of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.

1906: Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.

1949: George Orwell's "1984" is published.

2004: The first in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

Weather information taken from the National Weather Service. Today in History compiled from Wikipedia and other sources.


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