News release from the Milton Police Department – updated @4:45.

Update (4:45pm) – The suspect in today’s arrest Jacqueline Scott, was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing in Quincy Court on May 29th.

Just after 3:00 am today Milton Police Communications received a series of 911 calls from residents of an apartment building located at 36 Eliot St. (Milton Hill House.)

The initial calls indicated that a resident on the third floor was “yelling for help.” Additional information revealed that an ambulance was needed.

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from MyFox Boston.com

A man is in the hospital following a domestic shooting.

Police say that a man was shot by a woman on Eliot Street. The man was taken to Boston Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. (Read the full story here.)

Paul V. Burke, a 1972 graduate of Milton High School and retired Colonel of the US Marine Corps will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Memorial Day Observance, Monday, May 25th.

Colonel Burke enlisted in the military after graduating from Loyola University in Montreal, Canada, serving first as a member of the infantry and then transferring to the air wing division of the Marines.

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News from the Office of Representative Timilty

Recently, State Representative Walter F. Timilty welcomed fourth-grader Caroline Driscoll and her parents, Maureen and Robert, to the State House.  At the State House, Caroline Driscoll had the great honor of addressing The Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators bestowed upon her, at the celebration of the august Caucus’s fortieth anniversary. 

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As tired as we may become of geese, this is a remarkable shot. Thanks to Tom Palmer for sending it along. We welcome your photos. You can email them to frank@mytownmatters.com.

by Kathleen Ryan, Fontbonne Academy

On Thursday May 28th at 3pm and Friday May 29th at 7:30pm, Fontbonne Academy’s Good Fountain Players will present Mary Hall Surface’s play “What Part Will I Play? This student run production tells of thirteen teenage girls who arrive at an audition.

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from The Enterprise

Members of the Class of 2015 were all smiles Sunday morning at Curry College’s 135th commencement, where 862 undergraduate and graduate students representing seven countries and 18 states received degrees.(Read the full story here.)

Bike Milton will lead a casual-paced ride on Saturday, May 23 to show off all the new work along the Neponset Greenway. There is a lot happening, and we think you’ll be interested to learn more about this project, and the potential to turn it into a regional bikeway that links across Boston and as far as Medford.

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Representatives of Patriot Properties Inc. are in the process of inspecting all properties in Milton. The Board of Assessors has contracted with the Massachusetts firm to inspect all classes of property required by statute, and to be completed later this year.

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