• Seniors – Please check the glass case opposite guidance for information on scholarships.
• Faculty/Staff Talent Show – Tickets are on sale on the main office for $10 each. (drum roll please…) and the countdown has started…. Three more days until the show of the century.  The Faculty/Staff Step Squad can’t wait to dazzle you with their fast moving feet and precision moves. All that and Bengay to prove it! See you on Thursday night!
• There will be a very brief Film Club meeting after school today.
• To all Freshman:  there will be Student Leader presentations during this week’s Wednesday and Thursday activity periods. Be prepared to participate.
• Community Service:  The Milton Public Library needs approximately 150 volunteers for   the opening weekend – April 4 and 5. Information can be found at Milton Public Library Opening on Facebook.  Please sign up in community service.

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Lacrosse

Milton Youth Lacrosse – Girls Learn to Play Skills & Drills Program

This is a learn to play program for girls in grades 1-4. Cost is $100 and includes a T-shirt. Players are required to purchase their on stick, eye protection, and mouthguard. It is 1-day per week and runs from April to early June.

Registration deadline is March 15th. You can sign up by mail. Registration forms are available online at their web site. For more information please email Kimberly Zieselman at kzieselman@comcast.net

Soccer

Milton Travel Soccer – Milton Youth Development League for K-3rd Grade.  The yout development league is a non-traveling league focused n fun and skills development thta meets for 8 Sundays beginning 04/26/2009 for boys and girls born between 9/1/99 and 8/31/03. A $75 ee inlcudes ball and uniform. There is a late fee and wait list if postmarked after March 15,2009.

Registration for the Spring 2009 Travel (BAYS) U16/U18 Season Open through Sunday, March 15

Eligible high school age players will receive a letter with U16/U18 season information the first week of March. Players must register on-line by March 15th in order to assure team placement. The spring U16/U18 season runs for eight consecutive Sunday’s, April 26 through June 13.

For more information and to register online, please go to Milton Travel Soccer’s web site.

Softball

Milton Girls Youth Softball League – Spring registration is now open for girls in Grades 1-8 who reside or attend school in Milton. It is an instructional and rereational league that foucses on having fun while learning the fundamentals of girls softball. It’s never too late to pick up softball; new girls havebeen very successful in teh upper divisions.

Deadline for singups is March 10th

You can register online at their web site. Please contact Milton Girls Youth Softball at mgsl08@gmail.com or at 617-455-2062.

Hockey

Milton Youth Hockey – Registration for the 2009-2010 season announced.

Registration will be held for all boys and girls interested in playing hockey as part of the Milton Youth Travel Program.

You can register at Ulin Rink (map here) between 7:00 – 9:00 PM on March 5, 10, 11, and 12th.

Registration forms are also available anytime at Ulin Concession Stand. Tryouts will be held April 6-9 @ 6:00-9:00 at the Quincy Youth Arena. Levels: TBA

NOT: No registrations will be accepted after April1, 2009 o at the tryouts.

For more information, call Phil Zona @ 617-696-8921.

Baseball

There are two leagues in Milton, the National League and the American League. The National League fields players who live west of Randolph Ave and the American League fields players who live east of Tandplh Ave.

Milton National Little League welcomes players ages 6-12 (must be 6 as of 4/30/2009) who live west of Randolph Avenue in the town of Milton. Registration is open through 3/15/2009. Major League Tryouts will occur as follows:

12 yr olds: Saturday 3/21 8-10 am
10 yr olds: Saturday 3/28 8-10 am
11 yr olds: Sunday 3/29 8-10 am

All tryouts will be held at TJO Sports, 40 Industrial Drive, Canton. (If you cannot make your scheduled day, please come to one of the other dates)

Minor league evaluations will be held on 4/11 at TJO Sports from 8:00-10:00am. Instructional clinics for registered 10-12 year olds will be held at TJO Sports in Canton from 8:00-10:00am on the following dates:  3/7.

Instructional clinics for registered 8 & 9 year olds will be held at TJO Sports in Canton from 8- 9:00am for 8 year olds and 9-10:00am for 9 year olds on the following dates:  3/14

You can find the registration online here.  For more information, contact the National League at registrar@miltonnationalll.org

For information on the American League registration , call 617-698-7634.
Challenger Division of the Braintree American Little League

Registration is under way for the sixth season of the Challenger Division of the Braintree American Little League. The program is open to children ages 6-18 with physical and mental disabilities who live on the South Shore. More than 100 children from 19 communities participated last year.

Three-inning games are held every Sunday afternoon at Hollingsworth Park from April 26 to June 28. Every child gets up to bat and scores each inning. The batter may use a tee or have a coach pitch.

Teams are of mixed ability, age and gender. Major league team hats, shirts, pants and socks are provided. Volunteer Buddies are available to assist players on the field.

The park is at 348 Pond St. It has accessible restrooms, a snack bar and parking.

To register or for more information, visit www.eteamz.com/braintreeamerican or call Kathy Jordan at 781-223-8633. The deadline is April 1.

Josh Green, a MHS football and basketball coach and former Wildcat athlete, together with Milton Community Schools has designed an innovative learning program, the Future Stars Mentoring Program,  that leverages sports mentoring as a teaching tool.

From their flyer:

“Future Stars is a reading program designed to help develop good reading skills and self-image and build a bridge between high school and elementary students. Under the supervision of Coach Green, students will be grouped by grade and work with student athletes, who will run reading and sports clinics stressing the fundamentals of athletics while sharing the importance of reading and the rewards that come from accomplishment.”

WHAT:           a series of literacy and sports clinics
WHO:             MHS student athletes in good academic standing & Milton elementary students in grades K-5
LOCATION:      Tucker Gym and classrooms
DATES:          6 Saturdays, April 4 – May 9
TIME:            11:30 am – 1:00 pm
COST:            $25.00

NOTE : Deadline for registration is March 27th

The registration form is available here.

Coach Sean LoPresti and star Milton guard Scott McDermott discuss tomorrow’s matchup with Catholic Memorial with Wicked Local and Patriot Ledger sports columnist Rick Seto. Catholic Memorial is favored in tomorrow’s game despite Milton being the 7th seed and CM the 8th. As we have seen, seeds really don’t seem to be a factor when playoffs are concerned. You can read the Wicked Local column here.

Senator Joyce was invited to speak at the Special Town Meeting held on February 23, 2009. His office has provided us with a copy of the presentation he gave that evening. It is a sober, clear eyed appraisal of where we stand as a state and a town, financially.

You can view the presentation here.

The Milton School Committee, facing an historic budget challenge, recently requested the teacher’s union to consider renegotiating portions of their contract. Mayor Menino has requested the same of Boston’s unions and three have agreed to wage freezes.

The MEA’s Executive Board here in Milton voted unanimously to decline the School Commitee’s request to “reopen Unit A and Unit B contracts.”

In the letter, made available on the School Committee web page, Margaret Gibbons, President of the MEA here in Milton, voices support for the override and concern that teachers not be asked to subsidize shortfalls in state and federal revenues.  She states:

“Teacher salaries are not what is causing the revenue shortfall nor will they be the solution. This would be a temporary band aid. We would only be postponing the pain. The answer is to work together at the local state and federal level to fight for a predictable and adequate funding for public education.”

You can read the full text of the letter here.

Beirne Lovely, Chairman of the School Committee, voiced his disappointment at the vote.

Meanwhile in Lynn, teachers agreed to work a day without pay, thus preserving jobs and preventing layoffs for this fiscal year. The superintendent of Lynn is rescinding 120 pink slips today. You can hear WBZ coverage of the Lynn situation here.

Wicked Local reports today that, “A town-owned wind turbine at the former landfill off Randolph Avenue in Milton would do more than generate electricity. It could offset half the electrical use of town departments and produce $700,000 in revenues, the town’s wind energy committee estimates.” You can read the full story here.

The MHS Wildcats beat Franklin 85-70 this evening in the semifinals!

They move on to the MIAA finals this Saturday to take on Catholic Memorial – time and location  TBD. Stay Tuned!

YAY WILDCATS!!

You can read coverage of the game from The Milford Daily News here.