Here again are two shots sent in that share a subject – the snow farm at Kelly field. Both shots help illustrate the size and scale of the snow. Thanks to MPD and Deborah Milbauer for the photos. We welcome your photos. You can email them to frank@mytownmatters.com. Click on an image for a larger view.
Calling all Lads and Lassies to Blue Hills Bank’s Shamrock Saturday! Looking for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Bring in $1 in pocket change and get your own $1 Gold Coin! Crafts, face-painting, snacks and more! It all happens on Saturday, March 14th from 10:30am – Noon at the Blue Hills Bank at 480 Adams Street, Milton
Sea Turtles Rescue at sponsored by Blue Hills Trailside Museum onSunday, March 29, 2015 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Wellfleet Bay is coming to Trailside! Join Bob Prescott, Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary’s Director, to discuss some of the factors that may have led to 2014’s historic level of turtle stranding.
The following students were recognized as “Students of the Quarter” for Term 2 at Milton High School. A small ceremony was held on Tuesday, February 24th in the Charles C. Winchester Auditorium to honor the following students:
Not everyone is fed up with snow as an article in today’s Globe reports.
I say, “Bring it on, baby! This is Boston. We’re all about records.”
— Keith Mills, Milton resident and owner of Esprit du Vin, as quoted in the Boston Globe
by Frank Schroth
The Warrant Committee for the second year dispensed with an all day meeting in favor of a ~2 hour night meeting much to the relief of the vested parties (i.e. town officials and department heads). The all day meeting was a session in which department heads addressed lingering questions regarding their budgets and made last minute pleas for funding of priority items. As it was televised, it also gave residents an opportunity to hear from department heads first hand on their needs and their proposed funding. However, as Warrant Committee Chair Ted Hays noted last week, all presentations to the Warrant Committe are now televised. Department heads have already made their presentations, had their budgets vetted, and addressed the questions and issues raised by the committee.
from The Boston Globe
For more than a decade, Darryl Elliott and his family schlepped up the expressway to a big Boston hospital every time they needed a doctor — even though Milton Hospital was practically in their backyard.
But these days, the Elliotts don’t battle traffic and pay to park in Boston; they stick to Milton instead. What changed? (Read the full story here.)
We received two photos this past week end that shared the same subject. Malcolm Larsen and Tom Palmer both grabbed shots of ice fishermen on the Neponset near Milton Landing. Tom wrote that they were fishing for smelts. Please click on an image for a larger view. We welcome your photos. You can email them to frank@mytownmatters.com.
From Left: Coach Paul Piotrowicz, Alumna and Milton resident Maria Rota ’73, Alumna Noreen O’Brien Kelley ’94, Head of School Susan Degnan ‘79, Alumna Cara Egan Murphy ’92, Alumna Christine O’Brien McLaughlin ’90, and Coach Don Larsen.
On Thursday, Feb. 26, Fontbonne Academy celebrated the 2015 Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Ceremony at Great Pond Hall in Braintree. At the event, they honored 6 new inductees: 4 alumnae and 2 coaches.
Fuller Village Invites the Community to A Soldier’s Story: an Irishman on the Western Front with University of Massachusetts Boston Professor Tom O’Grady on Thursday, March 12th at 2:00pm in the Function Room at 1372 Brush Hill Rd., Milton.
More than 200,000 Irishmen served in the British Expeditionary Force during The Great War of 1914-18 (World War I). This talk will focus on Prof. Thomas O’Grady’s experience of tracing across “the Western Front” of France and Belgium some of the boot steps of his Irish-born grandfather,