Apr. 23: Flowers, Terms, Rain, Blog, Trix

A poll on the best flower place in Johnston, how to blog on JohnstonPatch, and an odd place to keep one's drugs make up three of your 5 Things To Know Today.

Posted Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:19 pm ET|Updated Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:22 pm ET

Flowers: Do you have a favorite flower shop in Johnston? Add your vote to our poll and have your say in our Readers' Choice poll.

Terms: In this week's "Great Debate," we ask whether you support four-year terms for the Johnston mayor's office.

Rain: This has been a spring of extremes — first, red flag warnings because of near-drought conditions, and then a weekend full of rain. Follow the JohnstonPatch WeatherBug forecast to see when the precip will let up.

Blog: Opinions are like belly buttons — everybody's got one. What's yours? (Opinion, that is.) JohnstonPatch makes it easy to start a blog and speak your mind to our readers.

Trix: In a police log for the OMG PD files, Johnston Police reported on this date last year that a local man was arrested for possession of cannabis that he'd hidden in a Trix cereal box.

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