Milton News

Despite the drizzly weather, it was last year around this time that the first Lower Mills Holiday Stroll surprised organizers by attracting over 300 people, many of whom later returned to patronize shops they had peeked in on.

"It comes from all over," said Michael Mackan, the city's chief code enforcer. "You find average, everyday residents who don't want to pay for a sticker will leave their trash in a waste basket .

Wakefield Estate, Milton: Annual Holiday Decorations & Tablescapes Demonstration Nov 19, 7pm - 8:30pm. Lisa Ahern of Cedar Grove Gardens will include ideas about incorporating candles and other lighting in your decorations.

Of all the candidates vying for the State Housea s corner office next year, therea s one gubernatorial candidate who, if elected, would be standing up for the average Joe.

857-598-4826. Where once there was naught but pizza and middling Chinese food, where once the thirsty roamed far and wide seeking drink, lo, now there are restaurants.

Cameron Diaz and James Marsden attend the New York premiere of "The Box" on Wednesday.

Boston has hundreds of food blogs, with new ones appearing every day. Of the many I read, one I've come to trust is Boston's Hidden Restaurants and its sibling Boston Restaurant News, whose author does two things especially well: documenting restaurants beyond my Boston-centric purview in the suburbs and in smaller cities and towns around New ...

Listed are Meteorological events that happened on November 2nd: 1743 Benjamin Franklin's "eclipse hurricane" unlocked the key to storm movement.

Chat at noon with the Job Doc. ON CHRONICLE Where the Wild Things Are 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV Terrapin turtles crack their shells in Wellfleet.

MILTON, Mass. - Two men barged into a bank on Tuesday, armed with a sawed-off shotgun and handgun.

Where the salt water of Buttermilk Bay meets the cold water springs that feed Red Brook, sea-run trout find the right conditions to lay their eggs, burying them under the stream-bed's gravel to hide them from predators.

A four alarm fire tore through a Milton home Sunday evening. The fire broke out just after 5 p.m. at the multi-family home at 4 Kahler Avenue.

Milton man accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and taking her on a hell ride was arrested Wednesday morning.

It's the first weekend of October and there's a chill in the air. That means it's time to turn up the heat on some bad guys.

Struggling to make ends meet in the toughest economic climate in years, some communities south of Boston are taking a tougher stance against tax delinquents, whether they are behind on property taxes, water and sewer bills, or fees for trash collection.

A hearing on Beacon Hill today was aimed at increasing penalties for people found using marijuana in Massachusetts.

A reader asks: I started moving hostas and lillies this week so they have room to spread in other areas.

Share + Sep 17, 2009 5:59 pm US/Eastern Reporting Paula Ebben The only thing worse than shelling out $30, $40 or $50 to fill up your tank, is finding out it would have been cheaper if you had enough cash on you.

President Obama has nominated Carmen M. Ortiz, who grew up poor in New York City's Spanish Harlem neighborhood and became a state and then a federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, as the next Massachusetts US attorney.

It was nice to see Dan Linskey raise his hand the other day and become the city's highest-ranking police officer.