from The Boston Globe
Matt Duffy will don a baseball uniform for the University of Tennessee next year, but the Milton native put together a stellar final season at the University of Vermont.
The sophomore shortstop was an honorable mention pick on the 2009 All Ping! Baseball National All-American Team, and was a second-team selection on the ABCA Northeast Region squad and the ECAC Division I All-Star team. (Read the full story here.)
Is this rain insane or what? Today may finally see an end, if only momentarily, to the cloudy gloomy weather we have seen in one of the darkest Junes on record.
The Boston Globe recently ran a front page story on this ridiculous weather that featured Robert Skilling, the meteorologist at the Blue Hill Weather Observatory and Science Center, which is here in Milton.
Mr. Skilling is pretty excited about some of the records about to be set. We do not share his enthusiasm; but this is an interesting article and he is an interesting man. You can read the full story here and see an accompanying video below.
from Wicked Local Milton
The Blue Hills Trailside Museum celebrated 50 years Saturday with live music, activities and a ceremony honoring its director, Norman Smith.
Earlier this year, state Sen. Brian Joyce, D-Milton, filed a bill in the Legislature to rename the Blue Hills Education Center at Chickatawbut Hill after Smith. (Read the full story here.)
from Wicked Local Milton
Marines can earn many nicknames, but the one that seemed most fitting for Lance Cpl. Patrick J. Coughlin was “Little Brother.”
“To us he was Little Brother,” said Sgt. Chris Schreiver, one of more than two dozen Marines who traveled to Milton to attend funeral services for the 21-year-old Iraq war veteran. (Read the full story here.)
Traffic Notes:
For better or worse cellphone service is now restored in the Tip O’Neill tunnel.
Service had been knocked out back in April; but now we can chat away while wending our way through a dark winding tunnel with a bunch of other people who are also chatting away and probably driving faster than they should.
It might be interesting to compare accident rates when service was unavailable and when it is.
It is worth noting that private cell companies pay the Turnpike authority for the rights to provide the service.
ROAD CLOSURES
I-93 South approaching and through Downtown
Nighttime Multi-lane Closure
Two-to-three lanes of I-93 South will be closed at night approaching and through Downtown Monday, June 22, 2009 through Friday, June 26, 2009 from 11:30 PM to 5:00 AM the following morning. These lane closures are for maintenance work.
from Wicked Local Milton
Lance Cpl. Patrick J. Coughlin will be buried with full military honors including a 21-gun salute Tuesday following a funeral Mass at St. Agatha Church in Milton. (Read the full story here.)
Visiting hours will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, 326 Granite Ave., Milton.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Agatha Church, Adams Street at Brook Road, Milton. Burial will follow in Milton Cemetery.
Michael Paulson, who covers religion for the Boston Globe, reflects on religion and faith after attending the funeral services for Globe editor, reporter and Milton resident, Sarah Snyder. The service was held at the First Parish church here in Milton. He writes:
There’s been a lot of talk in the religion world about Americans’ increasing habit of choosing their own religious affiliation — survey research by Pew, in particular, has shown that half of all Americans have changed denomination during their lifetime. But there’s been less attention to the ways in which Americans also have a tendency to make faith their own, accepting those beliefs and rituals that they like, and rejecting those they don’t, within or outside their denominations.
I was thinking about this this morning, when I attended the funeral for a co-worker, Sarah Snyder, who died June 11 at the age of 51.
You can read the full story here.
Congratulations to the following Milton High School students who were honored as All-Stars in the Boston Globe’s Spring 2009 All-Scholastics awards
Baseball – Matt O’Neill
Softball – MacKenzie Sumner and Morgan Sumner
Girls Lacrosse – Brittany O’Rourke
Boys Track – Paul Conner, Max Opara, Matt Lezama, and Adrian Donahue
Girls Track – Cheryl Tran
Girls Tennis – Ariana Launie (ALL SCHOLASTIC!)
NOTE: Following are links to coverage from major Boston news outlets on the tragic accident at the Quincy quarry. By all accounts it was a terrible accident; no drugs, no alcohol, no foul play. Just 4 good buddies out to have some fun. Only 3 returned. We are deeply grateful to Mr. Coughlin for his service to his country and very sorry for this terrible loss to his family and friends.
Links to news coverage of tragic death of Patrick Coughlin of Milton.
from NECN
Marine falls, dies in Quincy quarry Boston Globe
from The Patriot Ledger
Wally Heller, a student at Cunningham Elementary School in Milton, won a $200 savings bond as the grand prize in the School Building Authority’s “My Ideal School” contest for first graders. (Read the full story here.)
Wally Heller's winning picture