THE MILTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE CONDUCTING A TELEPHONE TEST OF THE REVERSE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM ON THURSDAY MORNING 7/16/2009. RESIDENTS DO NOT HAVE TO RESPOND IF THEY GET CALLED. IT IS ONLY A TEST.

from Wicked Local Milton

For nearly the entire regular season, it took much more than three runs to take down Milton Post 114. Yet Needham Post 14, behind a stellar pitching performance from starter Matt Dunn, defeated the District 6 East powerhouse, 3-0, in the first game of the best-of-three series in the opening round of the American Legion baseball playoffs. (Read the full story here.)

from Wicked Local Milton

The mother of a 3-year-old boy found wandering alone on Blue Hills Parkway late Monday afternoon has been charged with endangering her child, police said. (Read the full story here.)

from The Patriot Ledger

Despite summer weather that never seemed to cooperate, eight local teams have qualified for the American Legion baseball playoffs.

Milton Post 114, Braintree Post 86, Morrisette Post 294 and Holbrook Post 137 will compete in the District 6 playoffs. In District 10, Hingham Post 120, Hanover Post 149, Plymouth Post 40 and Whitman Post 22 will take the field in the postseason. (Read the full story here.)

CONGRATULATIONS MILTON!

CNNMoney.com has ranked Milton, MA 5th out of 100 “Best Places to Live” in their annual survey of American towns!


You can read their profile of Milton here.

Just a few miles from downtown Boston, Milton is full of historic homes, tree-lined streets, and well-tended gardens, plus lots of parks and playgrounds.

— from CNNMoney.com profile

Of course we couldn’t agree more. This is just a great tribute to our town officials, town departments, and of course our community. Congratulations all!

Home page for “Best Places to Live” is here.

You can find Boston Herald coverage which includes a conversation with Selectman Fagan here.

A weekly recap of key events and items of interest to the Milton community:

A frank talk with Selectman Fagan

Kathy Fagan sat down with us to discuss the role of the selectman in town government and her reflections on what she has learned in her time in office to date. She also shared her thoughts on the achievements of the past year and what lies ahead.  You can read the original post here.

Joseph Lynch is Milton’s new Director of Public Works

The town of Milton has seen quite a few personnel changes in the last year of so. We have a relatively new police chief adn town administrator and , a new fire chief, John Grant, just took over a couple of weeks ago from Chief Larson. Most recently, the Board of Selectmen unanimously selected Joseph Lynch to be the director of public works.

School cuts identified and town survey results posted

The school department has identified the staff cuts that will be made to meet FY 2009 budget. You get a link from the original post here.

Also, the Panning Board has released the results of the survey they conducted to understand residents attitudes to issues such as green space, commercial development etc. You can find a link to the survey results from the original post here

from Wicked Local Milton

Milton officials have proposed combining water-main replacement projects to save the town $500,000.

State Rep. Walter Timilty, D-Milton, and Selectmen Chairman John Shields met with House Speaker Robert DeLeo to seek his support for the plan, which would include replacing a nearly century-old town water main. (Read the full story here.)

The Milton Planning Board has posted the results of their recent survey asking residents for input on town wide planning.

They wrote up a synopsis of the results and also posted the raw results.

The cumulative answers to the survey (synopsis) can be found here.

The complete responses to the questioniare can be found here.

The school department has cut the following full time equivalents from their staff:

• 6 teachers
• 1 professional staff
• 6 non-professional staff.

For a total of 13 FTEs and a savings of $549,000.

The high school will lose 2.5 FTEs, Pierce will lose 1.5 FTEs and the elementary schools will lose 9 FTEs. You can find the detailed breakdown from the school department here.