The following students were recognized as “Students of the Quarter” for Term 2 at Milton High School. A small ceremony was held on Tuesday, February 24th in the Charles C. Winchester Auditorium to honor the following students:
Quote for the day
Not everyone is fed up with snow as an article in today’s Globe reports.
I say, “Bring it on, baby! This is Boston. We’re all about records.”
— Keith Mills, Milton resident and owner of Esprit du Vin, as quoted in the Boston Globe
Brief bits: FY16 budget nears closure; Ed Duffy to serve out term; Burnes kicks off campaign
by Frank Schroth
The Warrant Committee for the second year dispensed with an all day meeting in favor of a ~2 hour night meeting much to the relief of the vested parties (i.e. town officials and department heads). The all day meeting was a session in which department heads addressed lingering questions regarding their budgets and made last minute pleas for funding of priority items. As it was televised, it also gave residents an opportunity to hear from department heads first hand on their needs and their proposed funding. However, as Warrant Committee Chair Ted Hays noted last week, all presentations to the Warrant Committe are now televised. Department heads have already made their presentations, had their budgets vetted, and addressed the questions and issues raised by the committee.
Milton hospital grows as part of Beth Israel Deaconess network
from The Boston Globe
For more than a decade, Darryl Elliott and his family schlepped up the expressway to a big Boston hospital every time they needed a doctor — even though Milton Hospital was practically in their backyard.
But these days, the Elliotts don’t battle traffic and pay to park in Boston; they stick to Milton instead. What changed? (Read the full story here.)
Photos for the day 03.03.15
We received two photos this past week end that shared the same subject. Malcolm Larsen and Tom Palmer both grabbed shots of ice fishermen on the Neponset near Milton Landing. Tom wrote that they were fishing for smelts. Please click on an image for a larger view. We welcome your photos. You can email them to frank@mytownmatters.com.
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- photo by Malcolm Larsen
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- photo by Tom Palmer
Congrats to 2015 Fontbonne Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
From Left: Coach Paul Piotrowicz, Alumna and Milton resident Maria Rota ’73, Alumna Noreen O’Brien Kelley ’94, Head of School Susan Degnan ‘79, Alumna Cara Egan Murphy ’92, Alumna Christine O’Brien McLaughlin ’90, and Coach Don Larsen.
On Thursday, Feb. 26, Fontbonne Academy celebrated the 2015 Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Ceremony at Great Pond Hall in Braintree. At the event, they honored 6 new inductees: 4 alumnae and 2 coaches.
Talk at Fuller Village – A Soldier’s Story: an Irishman on the Western Front
Fuller Village Invites the Community to A Soldier’s Story: an Irishman on the Western Front with University of Massachusetts Boston Professor Tom O’Grady on Thursday, March 12th at 2:00pm in the Function Room at 1372 Brush Hill Rd., Milton.
More than 200,000 Irishmen served in the British Expeditionary Force during The Great War of 1914-18 (World War I). This talk will focus on Prof. Thomas O’Grady’s experience of tracing across “the Western Front” of France and Belgium some of the boot steps of his Irish-born grandfather,
MPD Update on snow removal operations, safety on Rte. 28
The Milton Police posted the following update to their Facebook page yesterday afternoon regarding the status of snow removal, safety on Rte. 28.
Good afternoon:
The Selectman as well as our own staff have been monitoring your emails and concerns about the continued effort to deal with snow.
Obit: J. William Dolan, long serving member of Milton Planning Board
DOLAN, J. William M.D. Of Wareham, formerly of Marion and Milton, February 26, 2015. Beloved husband of Jane Wheeler Dolan. Father of Atty. Kathleen Dolan Kennedy, Jeanne Marie Dolan M.D., Atty. Patrice E. Morse, Brittany J. Dolan and James W. (Jay) Dolan III. Brother of Paul F. Dolan and W. Craig Dolan. Bill is the grandfather of 5 and the late Molly Kennedy. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Saint Elizabeth Church, Reedsdale Road at Randolph Avenue,
Sale on Children’s Books at the Friends of the Library Book Shop- March 14-28
A special sale of gently used books for children of all ages takes place at the Friends of the Milton Public Library Book Shop, 476 Canton Avenue, for two weeks starting Saturday, March 14. Board books, picture books, chapter books in fiction and nonfiction, and young adult selections, are sale priced at 3 for $1.
Meeting: Planning Board
The Milton Planning Board will be meeting on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30pm in the Blute Conference Room at Town Hall. The agenda includes but is not limited to a discussion of the citizen petition on signs that is on this spring’s Town Warrant and hearings on townhouse condo petition and Thayer Nursery. You can find the full agenda here.