Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation.

1. Sponsored by the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce - Estate Planning: What You Need to Know! is taking registration for its July 19 workshop. Marvin Silver, Esq., a trusts and estates attorney at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, in Westborough, will give an overview of how to prepare for the future.Topics include wills, trust, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies, etc.  

2. Framingham Selectmen are scheduled to meet at 7 in the Memorial Building. On the agenda is a discussion of Framingham State University leasing the Maynard Building, request by NSTAR for permits, appointments to boards and committees, update on the Rugg-Gates property and a discussion on the Winter Street bridge project.

3. Framingham Board of Health is scheduled to meet tonight at 7 in the Blumer Room of the Memorial Building. On the agenda is a couple of plumbing variances, three permit request for chickens and dogs and a discussion on abrasive blasting regulations.

4. Framingham School Committee is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. in the King Building. On the agenda is a review of a demographic study including enrollment projections, district goals discussion, meeting schedule for the summer and school handbooks vote.

5. Summer Solstice at Garden in the Woods at 7 p.m. The summer solstice marks the longest day and shortest night of the year. Celebrate the season with solstice history and lore, poetry, songs, stories, and a short ceremony to welcome in the solstice. Enjoy a walk in the woods to enjoy the beauty of summer’s longest day, to watch the sunset, and see the Garden’s “Fireball” sculpture lit. Group limited to 24 people. Admission: $12 per person.