from Wicked Local Braintree
Blue Hills Regional Technical School is accepting applications for house construction or large addition projects for the next school year. Residents or landowners within the nine district towns are eligible to submit applications no later than April 1. (Read the full story here.)
from WBUR
Elsie Metayer lives in a two-story Victorian in Milton. Her colorful home is decorated with art from Haiti, and pictures of family. Her parents sit bundled on the couch, while she talks about her guilt that she’s here in Milton, while her three siblings are in Port-Au-Prince, sleeping outside their ruined homes. (Read the full story here.)
from Wicked Local Milton
The Milton wrestling team rallied from a 18-0 deficit to tie Braintree Tuesday night. The two teams settled for a 42-42 tie.(Read the full story here.)
In other sports action Natick downed the MHS girls basketball 63-52. (Story here.) The boys basketball team, however, prevailed over Natick 55-54 (Story here.)
MHS Cabaret!
There will be a Milton High School student Cabaret Talent Show featuring top notch talent doing all sorts of cool stuff!
GO! See just how skilled these high school kids are.
WHEN: Tuesday February 9th at 7:00
WHERE: The Charles Winchester Auditorium / Milton High School / Gile Road / Milton, MA.
The Milton School Committee recently discussed “Race to the Top” funding. Milton declined to apply. Ms. Kelly expressed her disappointment at this. “Race to the Top” is a federal initiative to award school districts funding however, and teacher’s unions take exception to tying pay to student performance on tests among other issues.
Rabbi Korf, a prominent religious figure in Milton, passed away on January 11th.
Rabbi Korf about whom Selectman Marion McEttick said, “(He was) a religious presence, a scholar, and, at the same time, he was a tremendous humanitarian.”
The obituary in the Boston Globe begins: “As his mother Gittel ran for safety, clutching her infant son, machine-gun fire ripped into her, causing her to fall flat on her back. Wounded, she warned her children to rush to safety, to hide with relatives.” You can read the full article here.
There has been positive movement in state legislature on laws to address elder drivers and texting while driving. The Boston Globe reports: “Key lawmakers, facing public concern over a raft of highly publicized accidents involving older drivers, yesterday proposed requiring vision tests for drivers over 75 years old seeking to renew their licenses, and granting legal immunity to doctors who report that their patients are not competent to drive.” (Read the full story here.)
Workshop Leader Ellen Pierce has been successfully buying and selling treasures on eBay for years. Learn the tricks of how to maximize your profit and find great buys too! Sponsored by Friends of the Milton Public Library.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 3, 2010; 7pm
WHERE: Keys Community Room, Lower Level
from The Patriot Ledger
At age 11, she was the oldest of four when her family left Haiti in 1982 for a new life in Massachusetts. Now Geimima Cassagnol Etienne is a 38-year-old nurse at Sherrill House, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Jamaica Plain.
The Milton resident left Friday for Haiti, ready to roll up her sleeves amid the rubble. She packed bandages, aspirin, splints and peanut butter. (Read the full story here.)