1. TODAY'S FORECAST: Today will be very hot in Milford with sunny skies and a high of 88. Tonight will see clear skies and a low of 61.
2. PLANNING BOARD TO MEET: The Milford Planning Board will meet Tuesday night in the Board of Selectmen meeting room at Town Hall. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.
3. CALLING ALL BOSTON MARATHONERS WHO DIDN'T GET TO CROSS THE FINISH LINE IN 2013: There are more than 5,000 of you. Registration began Monday and will be held through Aug. 29, for the 5,633 people who ran in this year’s Boston Marathon but never finished due to the marathon bombing incident. According to a blog post on Competitor.com, those runners don't need to submit a qualifying time, but the $325 entry fee is required. If runners have a valid qualifying time, they will be able to enter it between Nov. 1 and Feb. 1, but it is not required to gain entry to the 2014 race. Runners who do not enter before Aug. 29 will have the chance the enter through the qualified runner registration or through a charity.
4. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.
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