Cakes has opened! The retail bakery / coffee shop / sandwich shop in Central Square (intersection of Central Ave + Eliot St) popped open yesterday.
News
The race for School Committee
There is now a page available that collects all available information on the candidates for School Committee.
Policy on comments revised
This is to confirm that anonymous postings to MyTownMatters will no longer be accepted.
This was a difficult decision; but substantive discussion is undermined by anonymity.
Federal aid can now go toward damage from 2nd March storm
from Wicked Local Milton
Those who suffered damage during the second round of intense rain, and subsequent flooding, last month can now get federal aid, members of Massachusetts congressional delegation said Thursday. (Read the full story here.)
Milton Academy teacher hopes to fill Lakeville fields with lavender
from Wicked Local Milton
One day, pale, purple buds will fill the fields at Hilltop Farm in Lakeville.
Milton Academy teacher Darlene Anastas plans to plant 12 acres of lavender on the former Rotch family farm, converting one section into a walkable lavender labyrinth. (Read the full story here.)
Notes: Planning Board 04.22.10 – Quarry Hills attorney questions turbine plans
At last night’s Planning Board meeting Rich Kleiman, Chairman of the Wind Energy Committee, continued the discussion of special permit for the construction of the wind turbine on town property that abuts the Granite Links golf course and presented a revised report.
“Milton View” endorses Cheryl Tougias
Phil Matthews of Milton View endorses Cheryl Tougias for Planning Board in his most recent article titled appropriately enough, “Planning Board Endorsement.”
from The Milton View
This is a difficult endorsement. Difficult because the incumbent, Ed Duffy, is a good man. We’ve been on the same side politically often, and occasionally on opposite sides, as with the Tucker Village proposal. Between his employment and years on the planning board, he’s given half a century of service to the town he was born in and loves. He deserves our sincere thanks. (Read the full commentary here.)
Leo Corcoran, 85; founder of Caritas Communities
from The Boston Globe
Far more successful than he could have imagined when he was growing up with seven siblings in a Dorchester three-decker, P. Leo Corcoran was in his late 50s when a brush with a serious illness prompted him to look more closely at his life and those around him. (Read the full story here.)
Candidates have one last go round at COA forum
The most interesting moment of yesterday afternoon’s Candidates forum at The Council on Aging (COA) came not from one of the candidates but from the Town Clerk.
A frank talk with Murray Regan, candidate for School Committee
Murray Regan is blunt. He says what he means and means what he says and he will be the first to tell you, “I am not a politician.”