Applications for the 2014 Milton Young Musicians Festival are due by Wednesday, April 30. Please see the organization’s website for a PDF version of the Application Form and additional details about the Festival.
Milton Garden Clubs make contributions to Art in Bloom
Milton’s two garden clubs had displays at the Museum of Fine Arts annual display of Art in Bloom. It is the MFA’s way to welcome spring. Here are the contributions. Click on an image for a larger view. Click “Read more” for additional info.
Amateur Gardeners of Milton – Female Effigy Jar
Milton Garden Club: Portrait of a Boy Holding a Basket of Fruit
Election 2014: Ballot and Precinct information
You can find a sample copies of the 2014 town election ballots for precincts 1- 7 here and for precincts 8-10 here. These are also posted on the Town Clerk’s web page. If you do not know your precinct you can enter your address and find out here.
Polls open at 7:00am and close at 8:00pm.
Milton’s Master Plan and the Planning Board Election
from Milton View
The town election next Tuesday features a race for the Planning Board. This is a significant race as three candidates seek to capture the seat currently held by Bernie Lynch, who is retiring after 24 years of dedicated service. (Read the full story here.)
Poem for the day 04.27.14 – cab driver Ahmed
Posted in celebration of national poetry month. Today’s poem is a piece of haiku a reader sent in. He alerted us that for National Poetry Month, City Room hosted the New York City Haiku Challenge. You can find more haiku from the challenge here and Marie Howe, the state poet of New York’s picks here. Have a favorite poem you have read or written? Please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.
cab driver Ahmed
used to be an engineer
American dream?
Millet Israeli, 43, Manhattan
Blue Hill Observatory seeking budget boost
from WCVB
Local lawmakers are backing a state budget amendment that would provide $100,000 in additional money to the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, the oldest continuously operating weather observatory in the United States.
“If we don’t support the Blue Hills financially, it might fritter away and fall victim to neglect, and we can’t let that happen,” Rep. Walter Timilty, D-Milton, told news partner The Patriot Ledger. (Read the full story here.)
Ester is at home in Lower Mills
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Devra First the Boston Globe’s restraurant critic paid a visit to ester, which recently opened in Lower Mills. You can find the article here.
Photo for the day 04.26.14
The reminders are out – Tuesday is election day.
photo by Gene Boylan
Bernie Lynch Saluted for over 45 years of community service – Thank You Bernie!
by Frank Schroth
Last night was the final Planning Board meeting for Bernie Lynch who has served on the board for over 25 years and it didn’t go unnoticed. Senator Brian A. Joyce presented Mr. Lynch with a senate proclamation honoring not only his time on the planning board but also as President of Milton Access Television, his work with Milton Hospital, and his long and cherished relationship with his wife Marion.
Town Clerk to hold 2nd Annual Swearing-In Ceremony
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 6:00 – 7:00 PM the Town Clerk will host the 2nd Annual Swearing-In Ceremony for newly elected/re-elected Town Wide Officials. This event is designed to officially swear-in officials who have been elected at the Annual Town Election on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The event will be held at the Baron Hugo Gazebo in front of Town Hall, 525 Canton Avenue.
Poem for the day 04.26.14 – Refugee Blues
Posted in celebration of national poetry month. Today’s poem is by W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets. Have a favorite poem you have read or written? Please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.
Refugee Blues – W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.