from Boston Globe

When police broke down the door to the upstairs apartment on Belvoir Road yesterday afternoon, they encountered an unimaginably gruesome scene: 23-year-old Kerby Revelus slashing the throat of his sister, who had been celebrating her fifth birthday.

(read full story & along with NECN here.)

The Milton Young Musicians Festival encourages musicians in almost every imaginable category of musical performance: Voice, Piano, Strings (violin, viola, cello, bass), Percussion, Woodwinds (flute, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and Brass (trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, tuba).

The Milton Young Musicians’ Festival is open to students in Grades 6-12 who:

• attend any of the schools in Milton, Massachusetts – public or private
• whose residence is Milton, Massachusetts, or
• who is a student of any Milton teacher.

Additionally, any person up to the age of 25 years whose residence is Milton, Massachusetts, who attends school in Milton, or who works in Milton may participate.

To learn more, visit their web site.

from Patriot Ledger

The fire department is getting a $90,000 federal grant to install a system to remove exhaust fumes from the fire stations.  .  . At selectmen’s meeting Wednesday night, Mearn also updated the board on the search for a new fire chief.  (read full story here)

At the Planning Board meeting on 3/26, Temple Shalom and its representative, Coffman Realty, presented their response to the concerns voiced during the recent “Citizens Speaks” sessions.

Mr. Etkind of Temple Shalom and Mr. Cocoran of Coffman Realty both gave presentations. Mr. Etkind reviewed the process the Temple went through in selecting this course of development (e.g. a commercial overlay) and addressed the issue raised regarding why they did not include the public sooner. The Temple believes the only viable course that would secure them the financing they need to remain on site is the commercial development. He further explained that they are an organization governed by bylaws. They were required to have approval of a plan pass by the congregation in advance of discussion with the public.  He stated that the Temple plans to sell the property in the next year unless, of course, they cannot and it will sit vacant until such time that they can. He also reviewed the options of redeveloping as residential C or residential 40B properties. This would be reiterated in Mr. Corcoran’s presntation. Mr. Etkind reminded all present that the efforts of the Temple were done by volunteers and that “We did what we could and we did it in good faith.”

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The Patriot Ledger reports this morning on the Milton Warrant Committee’s second budget proposal, one that is contingent on $3.3 in additional town revenue. This additonal revenue would come mostly if not entirely from an override.

This second contingency budget would prevent the closing of an elementary school, and reduce the fire and police layoffs from 5 individuals in each department to 2.

Read the full story here.

The Boston Globe South has a feature on the Milton Library building project.

The new library will weigh in at 50,000 square feet, almost double its previous size. There will be 32 publicly available computers, a large community room and a renovated reading room with a fireplace. And an ample parking lot will make it safer and easier to get in and out.

Read the full story here.

In a letter to Milton officials and residents, Senator Brian Joyce announced the Milton would receive $757,308 in special education funding and an additional $29,461 for preschool programs. This is one time funding that will take place over the next 27 months as part of the Massachusetts Recovery Plan.

Please click on the followng link for the full text of the letter.

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In early February we had a post on Milton High freshman, Hugues Lamarre Jr. He  was one of twelve young adults to win cable channel Qubo’s short film contest. His work was titled, “My Cat Ate My Homework,” and uses the Zimmer Twins characters and animation. His animated short was one of the top 12 chosen from the 44,000 submitted. It aired on Ion TV, the Qubo channel,  and on NBC’s Qubo and Telemundo’s Qubo.

And now you can view it here. Congratulations Hugues!