Join Maria Trozzi for a presentation on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 7pm in the Pierce Middle School Auditorium. Participate in an interactive and enlightening conversation about the new stresses of parenting our children today and evidence-based strategies for building resilience. Parents of young children often worry that if they are not doing everything as parents, they are doing nothing.
7th Annual Taste of Dorchester Set for April 30th
Twenty-three restaurants under one roof on one night for a great cause. If you have been before, you know this is an event to savor. If you haven’t yet made it to Taste of Dorchester, this is the year.
Poem for the day 04.16.15
In celebration of National Poetry Month we are posting a poem a day. Today’s poem was submitted by Annie Davis who notes, “The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is observed as Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Hebrew word shoah means catastrophe. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed beginning at sunset of Wednesday, April 15th and continues through Thursday, April 16th.” If you have a favorite poem (or two) send it along to frank@mytownmatters.com.
Holocaust by Barbara Sonek
We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
Celebrating the Blue Planet – Earth Day at St. Michael’s
On Sunday, April 19, at 10 am, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church honors Earth Day by inviting children to participate in an engaging and informative celebration of clean water! Join church school leader Marilyn Cheney, her daughter and environmentalist Claire Cheney, and her son, Emmy-nominated and award-winning documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney,
Quincy Choral Society to perform at MPL
At 2 PM, Saturday, May 2nd, the Milton Public Library will host a one-hour concert with the Quincy Choral Society. A number of Milton residents will perform in a program called “Swingin’ into Spring!” This will feature the music of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Van Heusen.
Childrens programs 04/26-05/02 @ MPL: Reading Dogs!
Spring is here – and so are fun things for kids to do at the Milton Public Library! In addition to our regular storytimes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we have this exciting program for the young people in your life happening during the week of April 26 – May 2:
Representative M. Joseph Manning, a favorite son, has passed
by Frank Schroth
Man gets 2.5 to 3.5 years for robbing Milton bank
from Wicked Local Milton
A Chelsea man has been sentenced to 2.5 to 3.5 years for robbing a bank in East Milton Square last summer. (Read the full story here.)
Sheriff Belotti commends MPD for response to events
by Frank Schroth
In a letter to Chief Wells Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti recently commended the offficers of the Milton Police Department for their response to two “high-risk situations(s).” The first concerned a bomb found in a Milton home and the second was the apprehension of an armed man who sought entrance to the high school.
Poem for the day 04.15.15
Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of President Abraham Lincoln who died on this day 150 years ago from a bullet wound.
Nancy Hanks by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét
If Nancy Hanks
Came back as a ghost,
Seeking news
Of what she loved most,
She’d ask first
“Where’s my son?
Dropkick’s Casey to buy Lower Mills Pub
from The Dorchester Reporter
A team of buyers that includes Dropkick Murphy’s front-man Ken Casey plans to buy the Lower Mills Pub this month in a long-rumored deal that would bring new ownership— and likely, a kitchen and new look— to one of Dorchester Avenue’s last remaining old-school barrooms.
Ken CaseyThe pub, one of the few in the neighborhood that features live music, will be renovated this summer after Casey and his key partner— Brian O’Donnell of Milton— close on the sale. (Read the full story here.)