Here are 5 pieces of information designed to get your Wednesday started in the right direction and to help make you the smartest person in the checkout line of the grocery store.

1. Your 3-Day Local Weather Forecast: According to the NWS, today will be sunny, with a high near 75. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph.

• Wednesday Night Clear, with a low around 52. Light southwest wind.
• Thursday Sunny, with a high near 86. Light southwest wind becoming west 8 to 13 mph in the morning.
• Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 60. Southwest wind around 8 mph.
• Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 89.
• Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 67.

2. Quote Of The Day: "It's very impressive, to say the least," THMS Senior Nick Hamilton, talking about the new Tewksbury Memorial High School, which opened this week.

3. Reader Comment of the Day: "I don't have a problem with a Code Red telling me that the phones are down for the emergency services. That makes sense. Be grateful - Billerica sends them out a number of times a day from the DPW telling when water may be interrupted or when construction is going on at a school on a Sunday. I get code red's on my phone for a 5 mile radius from where I am at the time - I get them every time I drive through Billerica. THAT is a waste." Reader named "Comment," commenting on the story, "Fire Causes Thousands of Verizon Customers To Lose Phone, Internet Service."

4. It's Happening Today: TGSL Travel Team Tryouts - 12U & 10U. 12U Travel Softball Team Tryouts will be held at Hazel Field (at the Field of Dreams Complex) on the following days ... Wednesday, August 29th, Wednesday, September 5th and Thursday, September 6th from 5:30pm to 6:30pm -- we strongly encourage attendance at a minimum of two of the three tryout dates. Interested players should plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to the tryouts to complete paperwork. Players must be 12 years of age or younger by January 1st, 2013 to be eligible to play in 12U Travel. Any questions, please contact Maggie Butler at butler.fam@verizon.net or Mike Bisso at mikebisso@verizon.net. 

10U Travel Softball Team Tryouts are still being finalized .. if you are interested in trying out for the team and you are 10 years of age or younger as of January 1st, 2013, please check the TGSL website ... www.tewksburygirlssoftball.com for tryout dates and times ... a schedule will be posted by Wednesday, August 29th.

5. It's Happening Today, Part 2: Wednesday's at Wendy's for TYSL. Don't want to cook? Then head to Wendy's at 1665 Andover Street Tewksbury 5-8 PM on all Wednesday's in August (15th, 22nd, and 29th) and dine in or dine out.  Tewksbury Youth Soccer League receives 15% of the sales!!!

And Don't Forget: Editor Bill Gilman will be on AM 980 WCAP at 8:10 a.m. this morning, chatting with Teddy Panos about this week's Tewksbury headlines.