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Five Things: Annandale Sports Club Basketball Tryouts, Woodstock Festival

Five things you need to know today, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011

  1. Today's weather will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high temperature will be around 81 degrees.
  2. On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opened in upstate New York.
  3. The is holding basketball tryouts at today. Grades five and six can try out from 6-7:30 p.m. and grades seven and eight can try out from 7:30-9 p.m. Details here.
  4. Also on this day in history in 1961, East German authorities began building the Berlin Wall, permanently closing off access to the west for the next 28 years.
  5. There are 22 days left until the first day of school for Fairfax County Public Schools students.


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