FYI as of 7:50am this morning (Saturday) Boston Police have completely closed off River Street from Central Ave to Adams/Dorchester Ave. Fox News reports a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car in Dorchester Saturday.

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These enterprising girls, Ella Craghead-Goldman, Ada Mitchell, and Maxine Loranger-Milt, took advantage of the hot weather to set up a lemonade stand lat Thursday. And that wasn’t all. If you had the good fortune to run into them you could also get chocolate chip cookies and a rainbow loom bracelet. Sales were over $45 and they are donating it all to the Milton Food Pantry! Nice job girls!

A web site has been set up to solicit aid for one of the families displaced by the recent house fire on Central Avenue. You can learn more here.

The Senate passed a four-year, $1.7 billion Environmental Bond Bill that will benefit the state and the town of Milton.

The bill contains several initiatives by Senator Brian A. Joyce. These include:

• $7.5 million for the creation of a new Neponset River park and canoe launch near Truman Parkway in Milton
• $10 million for design, signalization, safety improvements, sidewalks and aesthetic improvements on Brush Hill Road and Truman Parkway

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“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

– Harper Lee, from To Kill a Mockingbird, published on this day 54 years ago

Here is a traffic advisory for those who travel Morton Street. The Dorchester Reporter reports that “For ten days next month – from Aug. 8 to Aug. 17 – the well-traveled section of Morton Street above the railroad tracks and near the Norfolk Street intersection will be closed to traffic as the state lays in place a new Morton Street bridge.” You can find the full article here.

Town officials have posted information on two key issues the town is currently working on. Click on the following links to view these documents:

• Presentation at forum on Water & Sewer Rate structure
• 40B comprehensive permit application filed with the Board of Appeals for Hendries property

from Wicked Local Milton

Cambridge city councilor Leland Chung says the council should be abolished. Now Milton attorney Robert Jubinville says the lieutenant governor’s office should be abolished instead. (Read the full story here.)

from The Boston Globe

A new wrinkle has been greeting Matt Donovan of Milton these summer evenings when he stops by Milton Cemetery to remember family members and, not incidentally, report to the resident waterfowl that waddle expectantly toward his car for what has become their ritual pondside check-in. (Read the full story here.)

The Milton Farmer’s Market is open today from 1:00 – 6:00. The market offers local produce, baked goods, fruit and more. You can find it on Wharf Street in Milton Village. Click “read more” for some shots fhappy patrons and their farm market bounty.

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