At their Thursday, December 17th meeting of the Warrant Committee heard arguments for and against the proposed zoning overlay article that is to appear in the Warrant for February’s Special Town Meeting.

Tom Hurley, Chairman of the Warrant Committee, explained that the Warrant Committee, an all volunteer board appointed by the Town Moderator whose primary responsibility is a balanced town budget, is tasked with making recommendations on all articles in the town warrant. Though the Warrant Committee meetings are public there is no input from anyone outside the committee unless invited by the chairman. Mr. Hurley asked the the attorneys for the parties involved in the Temple Shalom zoning overlay (Andrew Upton for the neighborhood group and Ned Corcoran for the developer) as well as a town resident from each side to speak (Stefano Kiel for neighbors and Lynda Packer for Temple Shalom). Each speaker was allocated 10 minutes followed by a questions and answers from the committee.

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from The Patriot Ledger

A lawyer for suspected gunman Robert O’Connell is raising doubts that random road rage led to Saturday’s late-night shooting of a Milton firefighter.

“It doesn’t pass the smell test,” attorney Jack McGlone said, a short time after O’Connell’s family wire-transferred $500,000 to bail the 40-year-old Marina Bay resident from jail. (Read the full story here.)

from The Boston Globe

Alexis Daly, an 8-year-old student at the Cunningham School in Milton, is competing in a national track event this weekend at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Colgate Women’s Games is the nation’s largest amateur track series, bringing together more than 11,000 athletes in age divisions ranging from elementary school to 30-plus. (Read the full story here.)

from the Boston Globe

Mother Nature is coming early to deliver a White Christmas.

A major winter storm will slam Eastern Massachusetts tonight, with forecasters expecting it to dump 6 to 8 inches of snow in Boston and as much as 20 inches on some areas of Cape Cod, according to the National Weather Service. (Read the full story here.)

from Wicked Local Milton

The past of a Milton firefighter shot in the abdomen includes investigations of domestic violence involving a girlfriend, the sudden death of an infant girl that he fathered with another woman and a spotty driving record.

In March 2007, Joseph Fasano was arrested after police say he assaulted his then-girlfriend, Robyn Mayo, at their Weymouth apartment. (Read the full story here.)

Board of Selectmen with members of Sustainable Milton

At the most recent Board of Selectmen’s meeting Daryl Warner and Sustainable Milton gave the Selectmen some early holiday cheer in the form of stainless steel bottles. If you have ever attended a Selectmen’s meeting or watched one on TV you will no doubt have seen the board members drinking bottled water. (Note the bottles on table in pic above).

Sustainable Milton has initiated an effort to educate folks about the environmental consequences of bottled water (not to mention health and financial) and is encouraging using these nifty reusable bottles which can be filled from the tap instead.  The Selectmen are proudly holding them and look happy to have them.  For more information on this effort, please see our previous post here.

These bottles are available for sale.  The bottles are made by Klean Kanteen and to purchase one (or receive information on how to benefit your own fundraiser), please email Daryl Warner .