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
from The Patriot Ledger
It’s almost like somebody thought it would be a good idea for Jim Bowes to prove again that he’d listened to one of his father’s most important lessons.
As assistant coach for seven years at Milton High School, where he played football and was coached by his dad Jack, Jim Bowes didn’t get the Wildcats head coaching position the first time it opened up. Jim stayed in the game for a couple years – a season at Stoughton High School, two years on the staff at Curry College – then took some time off from the sidelines. (Read the full story here.)
Youtube video from Patriot Ledger
The Ryan Whitney memorial Golf Tournament will be held at Granite Links to benefit the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program at Children’s Hospital. The tournament takes place June 22nd.
You can register online here. . . and visit the web site here.
from the web site
It is hard to believe that it has been almost eleven years since our son, Ryan, at age nineteen, died at the Quincy Quarries in an accident related to alcohol. Last year on the 10th anniversary of his death, we felt that it would be fitting to remember him with a golf tournament to benefit The Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research (CeASAR) and more specifically, the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) at Children’s Hospital Boston.
from Wicked Local Milton
After 11 years, a Quincy quarry has claimed another victim. Patrick Coughlin, 21, of Milton, apparently drowned in one of the long-abandoned quarries near the Granite Links Golf Course off Ricciuti Drive in the predawn hours today. He’d reportedly been swimming there with friends. Coughlin was a sophomore at University of Massachusetts-Boston and a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan. (Read full story here.)
You can find WBZ coverage here.
from Wicked Local Milton
It won’t be long before Pine Tree Brook is a little cleaner.
A recently completed project along Brook Road and Lincoln Street involved installing so-called “tree filter boxes” to intercept and clean up polluted rain runoff before it gets into the brook. (Read the full story here.)
from The Patriot Ledger
University of Vermont sophomore Matt Duffy of Milton picked up three more honors recently, including earning an honorable mention spot on the All Ping!Baseball National All-American Team.
Duffy was also named to the ABCA Northeast Region second team and the ECAC Division 1 All-Star second team. (Read the full story here.)
Come join Mass Audubon and the Commonwealth’s Department of Conservation and Recreation on Saturday, June 20, from 10 am to 5 pm to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, Massachusetts. This free all-day event will have activities for the family throughout the day, including free admission to the museum.
There will be a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony at 11am to unveil the new outdoor exhibits area, which includes a new all-persons accessible walkway, and to celebrate the renaming of the Chickatawbut Hill Education Center. Attending the dedication will be Senator Brian A. Joyce (D-Milton), DCR’s Acting Director of Urban Parks Samantha Overton and DCR’s Regional Director Peter Church, and Mass Audubon President Laura Johnson. The Museum and its Education Center are run through a partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and Mass Audubon.
For more information, visit their web site here.
There will be a cook out early this evening to kick off the Milton Library’s Summer Reading Club!
You can learn more about the summer reading club, open to children ages 3 to 12, here.
The cook out will take place on the Library terrace.
from the Boston Globe
From the window in her office at the Council on Aging, director Mary Ann Sullivan watches the tense debate over elderly driving play out in the parking lot each day. Taking note of every dinged door and jumped curb, each wrong turn and pedal choice, she wonders whether it’s time to step in.
“I watch them drive over center islands, almost hit each other, go the wrong way,” she said. “They are serious accidents waiting to happen, and just shouldn’t be on the road.” (Read the full story here.)
BOSTON RED SOX GAME
JULY 27, 2009 @ 7PM
BOSTON RED SOX VS OAKLAND A’S
TICKETS WITH TRANSPORTATION ONLY $59
GET YOURS TODAY!!!!!!!!!
*(CHILDREN UNDER 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED
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BUS WILL DEPART MILTON HIGH SCHOOL LOWER PARKING LOT @ 5:30PM
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