The latest issue of the Bike Milton newsletter is available here. Bike Milton is a labor of love from some highly dedicated bicycle advocates who work to promote local cycling, safe cycling, and infrastructure and road improvements that help achieve those goals. They do a great job of keeping the community up to date on developments, issues, and events. You can also friend them on Facebook here.
Teen Creative Writing Workshop with Kathryn Burak
On Monday, November 10 at 7 p.m., the Milton Public Library will host a creative writing workshop led by Kathryn Burak for local teens. Ms. Burak is a Milton resident, a teacher at Boston University, the poetry editor at YARN (yareview.net), and the author of the Edgar Award-nominated young adult novel, Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things. The workshop will focus on tips and techniques for writing fiction.
Frank thoughts on last week’s town meeting
Commentary by Frank Schroth
We are fans of the concept of the post mortem. That is a convening of vested parties of an initiative, project, offering to review the relative success or failure of it with an eye toward how it could have been better. If recent conversations with town meeting members are any indication, there is a bit about last week’s town meeting that could have been done better.
Political signs on public property?
Commentary by Frank Schroth — Updated 11/4 @ 3:25pm
The signs referred to in this post have been removed. We did not see any signs on public spaces this morning.
Town Meeting took up the issue of signs in both residential and business districts. It appears some over zealous politicos did not get the memo. Maybe we are mistaken, but are political signs allowed on public space?
Photo for the day 11.03.14
photo by Spencer Day
Don’t these old salts look like they are having fun? members of the Milton Yacht Club were out on the Neponset to assist with the South Shore Invitational Regatta. It was cancelled due to weather. We welcome your photos. YOu can email them to frank@mytownmatters.com.
Two Milton teams qualify for state football championships
from Wicked Local Milton
South Shore middle school football teams from Weymouth and Milton played against Wellesley and Needham in a nor’easter Sunday in middle school Super Bowl games held at Weymouth High School. (Read the full story here.)
The Hunger Games Basic Survival Course
On Monday, November 17 at 6 p.m., join the Teen Department at the Milton Public Library and Animal World Experience with The Hunger Games Basic Survival Course. Calling all tributes (any teens in grades 6 to 12).
With snow burst in Boston, storm breaks record
from The Boston Globe
The storm that brought Massachusetts its first snow of the season, along with strong winds, power outages, and coastal flooding, was a record-breaker.
The nor’easter hit the state Saturday and churned into Sunday, depositing the most snow recorded on any Nov. 2 in 120 years, according to weather observers. (Read the full story here.)
The Cahill Report for 11/01/14 – a weekly update on the Milton real estate market
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Cahill Report, a weekly update on Milton real estate activity produced in partnership with Laura Cahill.
Following are a list of open houses this week end and recent real estate transactions.
Literary Gala shines a light on Alzheimer’s
by Frank Schroth
Flowers from Literary Gala
A capacity crowd filled Lomardo’s the other day and they weren’t there for the food. They were there to celebrate and show support for our library. It was the 10th year for the Literary Gala hosted by the Milton Library Foundation, and this year they took a bit of a risk. The featured authors, Lisa Genova and Greg O’Brien, spoke on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Missing in Action” is topic at Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills
In honor of Veterans Day, Mr. Neil Canner will relate his father’s experience in World War II as guest speaker at the next Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills Brunch Speaker Series on Sunday, Nov. 9th, at the Pierce Middle School in Milton. The full title of Mr. Canner’s talk is “70 Years Ago – Missing in Action with the French Resistance.”