The Boston Globe has a follow up article of the Revelus sisters:
“At 17, Samantha “Princess” Revelus was an honor roll student at Milton High School who had a quiet demeanor but expressed an inner strength through her poetry, and planned to attend the University of Massachusetts-Boston after graduating this year.”
(read the full story here.)
At this time last week we were attending the wake for Nicholas Burdett, son Dr. Noreen Diamond Burdett, Director of the Music Programs in the Milton Public Schools. Nicholas Burdett was 25 years old and had gone to Miami with his girlfriend to celebrate his birthday. He was shot and killed by an off duty police officer. The officer alleges that Mr. Burdett was attempting to rob him at knife point. It is very hard to understand.
Several hundred people attended the wake to demonstrate their love and support for the family. We are very sorry for Dr. Burdett, a woman who has given so much to so many, and her family.
The Planning Board held a meeting in which they heard Temple Shalom and Coffman Realty respond to the concerns voiced by citizens regarding the redevelopment of the Temple’s property. You can read the orginal post here. The Planning Board will be meeting this Tuesday to pick up the discussion of the issue. Regardless of how this ends, there will be a loss. In the minds of the neighbors they worry the character of their neighborhood will be lost if the proposal passes. If it fails to pass, the town will lose its only synagogue and a well regarded pre-school. As Mr. Mays, who spoke at an early “Citizens Speak” said, there will be change, “and no one is going to be happy.”
And then there was the tragic event that unfolded on Bevoir Street on Saturday. Kerby Revelus killed two of his sisters, Bianca, aged 5, and Samantha, aged 17. He was attacking his third sister, Saraphina, when the police broke into the apartment and shot him. They saved Saraphina’s life.
Frankly, there are no words to capture the pain, the heartbreak, and the loss experienced by the family, their friends, and the town.
But Milton is a strong community. Tomorrow the Milton School Administration is hosting a forum to discuss the loss and how to cope with it. The discussion will be at Milton High School, tomorrow night (3/30) @ 7:00pm.
from Wicked Local
Within hours Saturday of the horrific murder of two members of a Milton family, students in the Milton public schools and police were meeting with school officials to plan ways to help the students and families deal with the aftermath.
“This is very very tragic and it cuts across all grade levels at the school,” said School Supt. Mary Gormley, who has been in public education for 34 years. “You can see in the faces of everyone that they identify with the family.” (read full story here.)
from Boston Globe
Police said yesterday that Kerby Revelus had been involved in a fistfight Friday night with a next-door neighbor, a conflict that precipitated the violent knife attack on his three younger sisters in their apartment on Belvoir Street Saturday afternoon.
“We don’t know what the fight was about,” Milton Police Chief Richard G. Wells said yesterday. But “this all came as a result of [that] incident.” (read full story here.
from Boston Globe
When police broke down the door to the upstairs apartment on Belvoir Road yesterday afternoon, they encountered an unimaginably gruesome scene: 23-year-old Kerby Revelus slashing the throat of his sister, who had been celebrating her fifth birthday.
(read full story & along with NECN here.)
The Milton Young Musicians Festival encourages musicians in almost every imaginable category of musical performance: Voice, Piano, Strings (violin, viola, cello, bass), Percussion, Woodwinds (flute, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and Brass (trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, tuba).
The Milton Young Musicians’ Festival is open to students in Grades 6-12 who:
Additionally, any person up to the age of 25 years whose residence is Milton, Massachusetts, who attends school in Milton, or who works in Milton may participate.
To learn more, visit their web site.
from Patriot Ledger
The fire department is getting a $90,000 federal grant to install a system to remove exhaust fumes from the fire stations. . . At selectmen’s meeting Wednesday night, Mearn also updated the board on the search for a new fire chief. (read full story here)
At the Planning Board meeting on 3/26, Temple Shalom and its representative, Coffman Realty, presented their response to the concerns voiced during the recent “Citizens Speaks” sessions.
Mr. Etkind of Temple Shalom and Mr. Cocoran of Coffman Realty both gave presentations. Mr. Etkind reviewed the process the Temple went through in selecting this course of development (e.g. a commercial overlay) and addressed the issue raised regarding why they did not include the public sooner. The Temple believes the only viable course that would secure them the financing they need to remain on site is the commercial development. He further explained that they are an organization governed by bylaws. They were required to have approval of a plan pass by the congregation in advance of discussion with the public. He stated that the Temple plans to sell the property in the next year unless, of course, they cannot and it will sit vacant until such time that they can. He also reviewed the options of redeveloping as residential C or residential 40B properties. This would be reiterated in Mr. Corcoran’s presntation. Mr. Etkind reminded all present that the efforts of the Temple were done by volunteers and that “We did what we could and we did it in good faith.”
The Patriot Ledger reports this morning on the Milton Warrant Committee’s second budget proposal, one that is contingent on $3.3 in additional town revenue. This additonal revenue would come mostly if not entirely from an override.
This second contingency budget would prevent the closing of an elementary school, and reduce the fire and police layoffs from 5 individuals in each department to 2.
Read the full story here.