Monday Essentials: Salvation Army Holiday Applications, Sacco-Vanzetti Revisited

1. The Salvation Army will take applications for Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets for needy families in Milford, Hopedale and Mendon starting Monday and continuing through Friday. The hours for applications are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. Applicants will need to bring identification (such as a driver’s license), proof of residence (such as a utility bill mailed to your home), proof of income for the household (such as 
pay stubs or award letters) and copies of birth certificates for children. See more details here.

2. Sen. Richard T. Moore (D-Uxbridge) will host a Planning for Higher Education Workshop Monday at Milford Town Library. Several experts will be on hand to help guide you through the process of finding funds for school.

3. Milford Selectmen will meet on Monday. Among the agenda items: expect them to decide whether to schedule, in advance of a referendum vote, a special town meeting to consider the Foxwoods Massachusetts casino. An attorney for the casino requested this decision at the last meeting.

4. A low-cost spay and neuter clinic for cats will be at the Milford Humane Society on Tuesday, but By Appointment Only. Make that call today to set it up.

5.  The Sacco-Vanzetti Case will be re-examined by a historian at Milford Town Library beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the first of three lectures on the trial and execution of the two Italian anarchist immigrants. The case that drew international attention has local connections. Nicola Sacco settled and worked in Milford after emigrating from Italy and the presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a native of Blackstone and a descendant of Ferdinando Thayer, one of the first English settlers of Mendon. Daley chronicles the saga of Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, beginning with the robberies in Bridgewater and Braintree, then the famous trial at Dedham.