Museum Passes at Milford Town Library, MA Anti-Casino Ballot Initiative

1. If you are a member of the Milford Town Library, you can get discounts on museum admissions through its "reserve a museum pass" program. The museum list is lengthy, including Plimoth Plantation, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. And you can reserve your discounted pass online.

2. Local runner Fabrizio Zanella will run Aug. 11 in the 41st annual Falmouth Road Race, raising funds to help fight cancer as a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s team. Zanella, along with more than 200 Dana-Farber teammates from New England and beyond, will run the seven-mile race with a goal to raise $450,000 to support adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

3. A coalition of public health, municipal, family and religious leaders, and state citizens on Wednesday submitted an Initiative Petition to repeal the law allowing casino gambling in Massachusetts. The "Repeal the Casino Deal" group filed the paperwork with the office of the state Attorney General, and is hoping to get her approval for a ballot question on the Nov. 2014 ballot.

4. A mosquito with the West Nile virus was trapped in Holliston in samplings taken on Aug. 1.

5. The Milford Planning Board on Tuesday will take up the issue of the site plan waiver for a farmers market in town. Selectmen gave the go-ahead, but Planning Board approval also is required. The market will be located on Saturday mornings, beginning Aug. 24, at Milford Town Hall if the board approves.