5 things to know: August 12

Rise and shine! Here are 5 things to know today:

• Argyle’s Senior Citizen’s Association meets  from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. for lunch, exercise and games.

• Story time for children is offered at 10 a.m. at Barnes & Noble in the Shops at Highland Village. Stories accompanied by a coloring sheet or activity should keep the little ones busy for a bit.

• Forecasters are predicting a high of just 95 degrees today with a low all … the … way … down to 75 at night.

• Check out this neat breakout of how the Flower Mound Police Department’s cruisers are designed. It might surprise you how high-tech these vehicles are.

• Bartonville’s proposed FY 2015-2016 budget will raise more total property taxes than last year’s budget by $51,796, or 10.16 percent. $31,923 of that amount is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.