1) Blah. Today will be partly sunny in the morning, but become mostly cloudy by the afternoon, according to Weather Underground. Highs will be in the upper 30s during the day, and drop down to about the mid 20s at night.

2) Meetings. The Finance Committee meets Wednesday in the Town Hall’s Conference Room starting at 7:30 p.m. Among the items up for discussion is the RMLD’s decision regarding Renewable Energy Certificates and an update on the FY13 budget. Click here for the complete agenda. The Conservation Commission meets Wednesday night in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room at the Town Hall starting at 7 p.m. Here’s a link to the agenda. 

3) Oil Painting. The Reading Arts Association presents a simultaneous oil painting demonstration by artists Marian Dioguardi and Will Kirkpatrick. This event is at the First Congregational Church of Reading, from 7:30 p.m. until 9 p.m.

4) Sports. Reading High hockey is in action across the gender divide on Wednesday, as the boys take on Middlesex League Large School rival Lexington at Burbank Arena starting at 7:45 p.m. and the girls skate at Lexington at 7:15 p.m. Click here for the complete Rockets schedule. Austin Prep. Both AP hockey squads skate on Wednesday as well, with the girls battling at Wakefield at 3:10 p.m. and the boys skating in Cambridge against Matignon at 8 p.m. Here’s the full AP schedule.

5) Off With Her Head! On this day, in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringay Castle in England for her role in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. Mary ascended to the throne of Scotland at the age of just six days after her father, King James V, died in 1542. The young queen was sent to be raised at the French Court, and married the French dauphin, who became King Francis II of France in 1559 but died the next year. After her husband’s death, Mary returned to her native Scotland to assume the throne, but was later deposed and imprisoned by elements of the Scottish nobility. She eventually made her to way to England, where she was welcomed by Queen Elizabeth, but eventually became embroiled in intrigues that led to her execution.