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MECA announces annual professional recognition awards

The Milton Early Childhood Alliance would like to congratulate Maureen Butler, Occupational Therapist at Milton Integrated Preschool for being chosen as our tenth annual Professional Recognition Award winner and Mary Sullivan, Director of Sunshine Preschool for being our Special Achievement Award winner!

Celebrate Patriots Day at the Suffolk Resolves

Celebrate Patriot’s Day weekend right here in Milton – Tour the house where Dr. Joseph Warren and Paul Revere made history!

Come to the Suffolk Resolves House, 1370 Canton Avenue, on Sunday, April 19, from 1-3 PM. Members of the Milton Historical Society will be there to welcome you and to answer questions about the place of this house in the popular resistance to British rule that set the stage for the American Revolution.

We Are Milton to present Music Fest, Fireworks, and Celtic Sunday

We Are Milton presents the We Are Milton Music Fest and Fireworks

We are excited to announce the addition of Artists and Artisans to the Saturday, June 27 celebration of music and fireworks. This event is located at Gov. Hutchinson Field on Adams Street and will run from 3-11pm. Artists and Artisans will be allowed to set up their booths at 1pm for a 3pm opening.

Andrea Gordon seeks return to Library Board of Trustees

The following was submitted by the candidate

My name is Andrea Gordon, and I am running for one of the three open seats on the Board of Library Trustees. A resident of Milton for 50 years, I have spent most of my life actively engaged in developing strong libraries that are responsive and responsible to their communities.

Photo for the day 04.13.14

Watch out for these guys! They’re problem solvers! This is the team from Cunningham (Anderson Korman, Mary Mylod, Anna Hamblet and Barron Clancy). Congrats to all students and their coaches. Please click “Read more” for additional details.

photo courtesy of MPS

photo courtesy of MPS

Poem for the day 04.13.15

In celebration of National Poetry Monthwe are posting a poem a day. Today’s poem was sent in by a Elizabeth Thomas. If you have a favorite poem (or two) send it along to frank@mytownmatters.com.

Human Family by Maya Angelou

I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.

The Milton Garden Club is Happy to Offer “Black Gold”

Spring is finally here and once again, the Milton Garden Club is happy to offer premium aged compost for sale. “Black Gold” is organic, composted cow manure that comes from a dairy farm in Western Massachusetts. When you purchase our compost, you not only get a wonderful, healthy way to improve your garden’s soil, but you also support the local farm that produces the compost.

Milton Cleanup Day

By Dara Woods-Calkins & Alfredo Padilla

Sustainable Milton is proud to partner with the Milton DPW to sponsor this year’s Milton Cleanup Day on Saturday, May 2nd. We need your help to make this event a success and would like to invite you to organize a team and choose an area of town that could use some TLC after this epic Winter.