MHS Cabaret!
There will be a Milton High School student Cabaret Talent Show featuring top notch talent doing all sorts of cool stuff!
GO! See just how skilled these high school kids are.
WHEN: Tuesday February 9th at 7:00
WHERE: The Charles Winchester Auditorium / Milton High School / Gile Road / Milton, MA.
The Milton School Committee recently discussed “Race to the Top” funding. Milton declined to apply. Ms. Kelly expressed her disappointment at this. “Race to the Top” is a federal initiative to award school districts funding however, and teacher’s unions take exception to tying pay to student performance on tests among other issues.
Rabbi Korf, a prominent religious figure in Milton, passed away on January 11th.
Rabbi Korf about whom Selectman Marion McEttick said, “(He was) a religious presence, a scholar, and, at the same time, he was a tremendous humanitarian.”
The obituary in the Boston Globe begins: “As his mother Gittel ran for safety, clutching her infant son, machine-gun fire ripped into her, causing her to fall flat on her back. Wounded, she warned her children to rush to safety, to hide with relatives.” You can read the full article here.
There has been positive movement in state legislature on laws to address elder drivers and texting while driving. The Boston Globe reports: “Key lawmakers, facing public concern over a raft of highly publicized accidents involving older drivers, yesterday proposed requiring vision tests for drivers over 75 years old seeking to renew their licenses, and granting legal immunity to doctors who report that their patients are not competent to drive.” (Read the full story here.)
from The Patriot Ledger
At age 11, she was the oldest of four when her family left Haiti in 1982 for a new life in Massachusetts. Now Geimima Cassagnol Etienne is a 38-year-old nurse at Sherrill House, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Jamaica Plain.
The Milton resident left Friday for Haiti, ready to roll up her sleeves amid the rubble. She packed bandages, aspirin, splints and peanut butter. (Read the full story here.)
from Wicked Local Milton
Matthew Regan of Milton wants justice for his sister, Alison, a special-needs teacher who died last August in a head-on car collision on Route 28 near the Quincy-Milton line. (Read the full story here.)
The Boston Globe named Emma Drew of the MHS Girls Hockey squad a “Player of the Week.” The Milton junior stopped 29 shots on goal and posted a shut out against Norwood. Milton won 1-0. Nice job. You can view all the Players of the Week here.
Well, it felt like it was time to change things up a bit. (Click “Read more” to take a poll.)
This new layout is an attempt to surface more content, more easily; provide an opportunity for advertising; and, hopefully, give a little more emphasis to issues and events that deserve more prominence.There are some editorial issues that need to be ironed out. The content is all still here and will remain the same.
from The Boston Globe
Two Norwood High School varsity hockey players who sustained serious injuries just days apart are making slow progress, with one teen released from Children’s Hospital Boston and the other’s condition upgraded, a school official said. (Read the full story here.)