Breakfast at Brookwood Farm

Last Saturday Brookwood Farm held a pancake breakfast and plant sale to kick of the 2010 growing season. The weather was perfect. The pancakes were perfect. The setting was perfect. It was just that kind of morning.

Letter: Relocated and loved it

Although I fully understand parents’ concerns about possible relocation from their neighborhood school, I was an overflow, relocated kid and loved it.

Blue Hills Mountain Bike Discovery Day held in Milton

from Wicked Local Milton

Five-year-old Alex Carrigan pedaled as hard as he could, but he just could not get his Hot Wheels bike through the obstacle course. Over came dad though, and with a push, Alex’s training wheels were over the bump and heading up the ramp. (Read the full story here. Includes some nice photos)

Milton schools, Children’s Hospital Boston team up against teen drinking

from The Patriot Ledger

Nearly 12 years have passed, and Dr. John Knight still can’t shake the image he saw on the evening news on Aug. 1, 1998: It was of his neighbor and colleague, cardiologist Dick Whitney, climbing into an ambulance to identify the body of his 19-year-old son. (Read the full story here.)

Milton native dies of heart attack

from The Patriot Ledger

Milton native James Shields would be a much welcomed guest to a party.

“He was the life of any party he was at,” Shields’ brother, Milton Selectman John Shields, said Sunday. “We are really going to miss him.” (Read the full story here.)

A wake will be held Wednesday at Magoun-Biggins Funeral Home and a funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Thursday at Holy Family Church.

Memorial donations may be sent to the Shield’s Children’s Fund, Rockland Trust Co. 288 Union St., Rockland, Ma. 02370.

A Milton loss; David Jeffries

Milton lost an exemplar of community service this past week, David Jeffries.

Mr. Jeffries was an accomplished scientist, sailer, active environmentalist, and a town meeting member for over 50 years; but that’s not all.