from Wicked Local Milton
Keep the shovel handy.
Six days after one of the worst blizzards in the history of southeastern Massachusetts, the National Weather Service predicts 8 to 15 inches of snow for Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol counties, with a foot the most likely accumulation. Snow will begin falling around midnight Sunday. (Read the full here.)
Notice from the Milton Police Dept.
ATTENTION – CLEARLY OUR STREETS ARE LOADED WITH SNOW.
Tonight (Sat) there will be three nighttime SNOW removal operations ongoing. DPW Crews will be removing snow from East Milton Square, Milton Village and the Central Ave Business Districts, beginning around 9:00 pm.
Lee Toma took some nifty shots last Thursday of the Trailside Museum’s Director Norman Smith with a feathered friend. This snowy owl had been captured at Logan airport earlier in the day and will be released in the Duxbury area where we hope it will live a long life. Please click “Read more” for additional photos.
photo by Lee Toma
Local restaurants are offering a range of themed menus and special offers. Click “Read more” to find out if there is something to suit your palate.
On Monday, February 9 at 6 p.m., the Milton Public Library will host a creative writing workshop led by Julie Berry for local teens. MILTON, MA: Young adult author Julie Berry will discuss storytelling and her new YA novel The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place just released this past fall.
by Frank Schroth
At their meeting on January 21 the Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 on a tax override strategy for FY16 & FY17. The three pronged strategy calls for a) an override in FY16 to cover health care costs associated with an injured fire fighter b) using one time “free cash” to underwrite FY16 operations which will serve as a bridge to c) an operations override in 2017. Hurley opposed the motion saying “it’s not a strategy . . . it’s playing with fire.”
from The Boston Globe
They certainly stood out amid the more traditional gifts of homemade fudge and CVS gift cards that state senators typically swap during the holidays.
Senator Brian A. Joyce last month gave everyone in the 40-member state Senate gold-plated designer sunglasses, the same kind worn by celebrities Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” and Johnny Depp. (Read the full story here.)
The Forbes House Museum will celebrate Lincoln Day with an artist talk and demonstration on Sunday, 8 February 2015 at 2pm at the Museum. President Lincoln portrait painter, Wendy Allen, will present, “Searching for the Exact Location of America’s Soul.”
The Ben Affleck film “Argo” will conclude the Winter Film Series co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills and the First Congregational Church of Milton on Saturday evening, February 7, at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45).
Young Adults from any parish in Milton are invited to gather for a special Lenten Program at St. Agatha Parish, 432 Adams St., Milton. The program is called Circles of Faith and will consist of one meeting a week for 6 weeks starting after Ash Wednesday Feb 18.