Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. Two French bulldogs are missing from the Lincoln Street area and their mom is worried sick about them. Has anyone seen them? Let's help bring these babies home.

2. The Regional School Committee meets tonight at the Algonquin library, and on the agenda includes the principal's report, a discussion of Town Meeting and a presentation from the World Languages Department.

3. Mother Goose is on the Loose at the Northborough Free Library today. And in the evening, the Reading Ambassador's Book Club meets.

4. Who's right in the disagreement between Sen. Brown and Whole Foods? Take our poll.

5. It's Hug a Plumber Day, Hairstylists Day and World Penguin Day, according to brownielocks.com. The first two seem easy to observe.