Five Things You Need to Know: Oct. 24

Happy Monday Little Silver and Oceanport! Grab a cup o' joe and let's get this week of Oct. 24-30 going.

Partly Cloudy High 64

It'll be somewhat sunny to start, but the clouds are bound to roll in on us as the day progresses, according to our friends at the National Weather Service. Expect highs near 64 and southwest winds between 3 and 9 mph. A 30 percent chance of showers is possible as night falls, with lows around 50. Winds to turn northwest at 9 to 11 mph.

Seven Bridges Shut Down

Remember how we told you last week that ? Well, the heavy machinery and crews begin ripping at 7 a.m. today. Worried about how you're going to drop your kids off at ? Turns out , so if you can get there that way, you're golden.

Bucs and Blue Devils Rule the Gridiron

I don't want to jinx anything, but we're gearing up for playoff coverage around here. Both and 's football teams bumped their records to 4-2 this weekend. , and it was . Congrats to both teams on their respective wins, and hey, the Jets won, too!

RBR Rocks Regatta

Here's a sneak preview of something we'll be serving up in greater detail at little later on...

Buoyed no doubt by the excellence of the junior sailing program at Oceanport's Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club, the RBR Buccaneers took 11th out of 18 teams at a Long Island regatta this weekend featuring top notch sailors from around the region. The Bucs finished second among New Jersey schools (Toms River South was best, coming in 4th), beating out Monsignor Donovan (15th), Rumson-Fair Haven (16th), and CBA (18th). Coach John Garth said yesterday that his team's performance was impressive considering the elite competition they were up against, and that his young sailors just keep on improving. More to come...

Dress Up for Heidi Klum

Think your little pumpkin has the best costume in all of the Patch? Well, if you take a snapshot of your child under 12 in their uber-creative Halloween duds and upload it , you'll be in the running to win a Grand Prize meeting with celebrity judge Heidi Klum. !