5 Things You Need to Know Today: Feb. 6

1. Office hours for State Sen. Will Brownsberger will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Claflin Room of the . 

2. Belmont High School's Fine Arts Department presents the A Cappella Concert tonight at 7 p.m. at the's Auditorium. 

3. Have a question about the town? Here's your chance to get an answer  the Selectmen's Office Hours at 6 p.m. in the Selectmen's Room on the second floor of . 

4. The Zoning Board of Appeal will hear an application for a special permit to operate a large family child care facility at 57 Lexington St. under the name Waverley Square Day Care. The Board meets at 7 p.m. in the third floor in the . 

5. One this day in history: Massachusetts joins the union as the sixth state in 1788; 190 years later, the Great Blizzard of 1978 begins, dumping three feet of snow in Eastern Massachusetts bringing the state to a halt for a week.