5 Things You Need To Know Today: Sept. 11

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. Town-wide PTO will hold its first meeting tonight at 7 at . The featured speaker is new Framingham Patch will also be at the meeting talking about ways PTOs can use Patch.

2. is scheduled to meet tonight at 7 in the Memorial Building. To review the agenda, click here.

3. Monday night, Town Meeting members elected Precinct 1 Town Meeting Member Teri S. Banerjee temporary moderator. She defeated Town Meeting member Joel Winett 59-37. . An election will be held in April to replace him. Banerjee could serve as interim until then, if Selectmen agree to appoint her. A motion was made at Town Meeting for Selectmen to do just that. Town Meeting also overwhelmingly defeated . For

4. There will be a today at 1:30 p.m. at the

5. There will be a ceremony today to mark the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11th at at 5:30 p.m. There will be a reading of the names of 17 individuals with ties to Framingham who died on Sept. 11, 2001 - Christine Barbuto, Neilie Casey, Tara Shea Creamer, Linda George, Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, Paige Farley-Hackel, Todd Hill, Herb Homer, Robin Kaplan, Barbara Keating, Judy Larocque, Susan Mackay, Laura Lee Morabito, Charlie Murphy, Darin Pontell, Meta Fuller Walker and John J. Wenckus. The public is invited to the 30-minute ceremony.

Also at 7 p.m., the , located on the campus of , will hold a very simple service of Remembrance and Hope with silence, prayers for peace, and lighting of candles.