Monday Essentials: Life According to Sam Airs Tonight, Public Input Meeting for Plainridge

Today's Forecast From The National Weather Service

• Today: Sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
• Tonight: Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 45. South wind 5 to 7 mph.

Foxboro Warriors Sports Today

• Volleyball vs. Milford, 4:45 p.m.
• Field Hockey @ Bellingham, 3:30 p.m.

Life According to Sam Airs Tonight
Life According to Sam, the documentary of the life of Foxboro resident Sam Berns airs tonight at 9 p.m. on HBO. The movie follows Berns as he lives with a rare rapid-aging disease known as Progeria.

To help raise money for Progeria research, Foxboro High School Athletic Director Caitlin Brown announced on Friday that the school will be collecting donations during classes and at all Foxboro athletic contest s this week.

School Committee Meeting Tonight
The Foxboro School Committee will meet tonight at the Foxboro High School media center tonight at 7 p.m. Agenda items include a look at the 2013 MCAS results and an enrollment update. To see the full agenda, click here.


Public Input Meeting For Proposed Plainridge Casino
The Mass. Gaming Commission will hold a public input meeting on Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. at the Fisk Public Library in Wrentham.

Those who wish to submit written comments relative to the upcoming input meetings may do so by sending an email to mgccomments@state.ma.us with the town name in the subject line. All comments received via email will be distributed to the Commission for their review.

Public officials, representatives of interested parties and members of the communities who wish to address the Commission at one of the scheduled public input meetings should send an email to the above address with ‘Request to address the Commission/date’ in the subject line. In the body of the email, the Commission respectfully requests that you include your town of residence.