The Fruit Center, Milton’s gourmet grocer, stocks more than 50 local south shore food producers. You can eat your way through the day with the dozens of locally made products available on their shelves that com from local bakers, brewers, pizza-makers, picklers, and other purveyors whose culinary businesses are located less than 20 miles from the store.
DPW Notice: Yard Waste Collection reminder
Summer Yard Waste Collection Reminder. There is only 1 yard waste collection in July and only 1 in August 2013
- Monday July 15 – Friday July 19
- Monday August 12 – Friday August 16
Thank You
Friends of the Blue Hills and DCR Sponsor Cool Summer Fest at Houghton’s Pond
Celebrate summer! Enjoy free wet and wild fun for the whole family at the Cool Summer Fest on Saturday, July 27, from 10 am-3 p.m. The heat is on at Houghton’s Pond, but visitors will stay cool with wacky water games, music and family entertainment, inflatable obstacle course, make and take kids crafts, live wildlife from Trailside Museum, pond exploration, free fishing fun with Mass Wildlife and more!
Boston Bruins prospect Robbie O’Gara has come a long way since Milton Academy
from The PatriotLedger.com
The butterflies still flutter inside Robbie O’Gara’s stomach now and then.
“I’ll sit alone at home and I’ll see the watch we were given for winning on my desk, and I still can’t believe it,” said O’Gara, a member of Yale University’s NCAA champion men’s hockey team. “It’s just an incredible feeling.” (Read the full story here.)
Milton Historical Society adds to collection
News release from Milton Historical Society
The Milton Historical Society recently received a few etchings by Carl Wingate (1876-1946) who was one of America’s most famous marine artists. Suzanne Hart Sarr (whose mother was a first cousin to Carl Wingate), her daughter Linda Bresnahan-McCarthy and son-in-law Harry McCarthy visited Steve O’Donnell and Linda Pirie at the Suffolk Resolves House to present them with these etchings:
DPW notice: Water Main Breaks
***PLEASE BE ADVISED***
Monday July 15, 2013
WATER MAIN BREAK – The Town of Milton – DPW would like to inform residents of 2 Water Main breaks today: 1. Fairbanks Road & 2. Ferncroft Road
MPD Notice: Herrick Drive house break
Notice from the Milton Police Department
Attention residents- The Department has published a great deal of information about residential house breaks in the past months. Most occur during the day but on Friday night sometime between midnight and 6 am, an individual entered a home on Herrick Drive. Entry was made via a rear door that was left ajar.
Town Meeting absenteeism @ 21% — Precincts 7 & 8 top the chart
Last month Milton Town Clerk Susan Galvin published the absentee lists from last May’s Town Meeting. The following brief analysis is based on that data. Of the 10 precincts in town precincts 8 and 7 had the highest rate of absenteeism. Town Meeting which stretched over 4 days saw that absenteeism rise from 15% on day 1 to 27% on day 4. The overall percentage of absenteeism for Town Meeting was 21%.
Reminder: Ocean’s 11 kicks off Milton Reads Film Series tonight
A free movie, Ocean’s 11 (2001) will play at the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton in the Keys Community Room (lower level) on Monday, July 15 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Milton’s Suzette Standring among journalism award winners
Columnist Suzette Martinez Standring of Milton, Mass. won first prize in the category of Online, Blog, and Multimedia Column for under 100,000 monthly unique visitors in a 2013 column writing competition for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Standring writes a spirituality column and blog (“Spiritual Café”) that appears in The Patriot Ledger and is nationally syndicated by GateHouse Media.
Quote for the day 07.15.13
Art is to learn from.
— Paula Lunder, who with her husband Peter, recently donated their $100 million art collection to Colby College