from Boston.com – Your Town Milton
Plans to tear down a once stately, fire-damaged home and carriage house on Brush Hill Road to make room for a pricey subdivision are on hold — the effect of a first-time “demolition delay’’ placed by the Milton Historical Commission. (Read the full story here.)
from Wicked Local Walpole
The winless Walpole High girls’ soccer team was waiting all season to make a statement in the Bay State League and after making that statement on Milton’s own field Friday night is winless no more. (Read the full story here.)
from The Patriot Ledger
About 50 homes lost telephone service when a truck knocked down a low hanging Verizon wire near Pierce Middle School on Central Avenue, police said. (Read the full story here.)
Christopher Daley
Historian Christopher Daley will present a slide presentation that melds historical fact together with legend and myth to produce an interesting and fascinating new look at events that really happened – and the stories of haunting that followed them.
Do you feel the autumn chill in the air? Well, it must be time then for Spooky Stories at the Forbes House! Mark your calendars now and prepare to be spooked. A fun filled program of participatory ghoulish and suspenseful stories will be told by the Friendly Forbes House Witches on Friday, October 29th outside beneath the ancient Beech trees.
from Wicked Local Reading
n Friday, Oct. 22, at 7:28 p.m., Reading police charged Joseph C. Hickson, 27, 34 Temple Street, West Roxbury and Jennifer M. Maxwell, 25, 8 Scott Circle, Dedham, with armed robbery, following an incident at TD Bank North on Main Street, in which they passed a note to a bank teller, demanding money. The two were able to get $475 before fleeing the scene. (Read the full story here.)
Last Friday night was a magic moment at Turner’s Pond.
If you were there about 7:20 or so you might have seen it. Looking south across this gem of a pond a series of lights bobbed and bounced the entire length of the far shore, glittering and sparkling off the surface of the pond.
from Wicked Local Milton
Jim Hooley was one of both the quietest and most productive artists I have known. He had a special soft spot for seniors, children and nuns. (Read the full story here.)
The Girl Scout Troop 74119 will be hosting a Halloween Costume Dance for 4th and 5h grades on October 29, 2010 to raise funds for a Girl Scout Journey to Europe.
The funds are for a Girl Scout Educational Journey through London, Paris and Lucerne, Switzerland.
from WGBH
Blue Hill Avenue runs south to north from affluent Milton to Roxbury’s historic Dudley Square, also passing through Dorchester and Mattapan over the course of its four miles. (Read the full story here.)