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She just doesnt know what impact the continuing coronavirus pandemic will have on turnout. "All the evidence is there that we should have a good turnout, but throw COVID into the mix and I just dont know," Galvin said. "The candidates are pretty active in their campaigning." Last year, with the election moved to June due to the pandemic, only 15.8 percent of the towns voters cast ballots, nearly half of them by absentee or mail-in ballots.  Galvin said she had received just over 600 requests f...

MILTON — As her school board hashed out a plan for learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristin Kociol said she, like many parents, tuned into every virtual meeting and took every opportunity to voice her hopes and concerns.  “Parents would pour their heart out over Zoom, and I think we felt like they were listening, but then there was no plan or transparency on the side of the school committee,” said Kociol, of Milton, whose daughters are in fourth and seventh grades. “I felt like the...

MILTON — Contests for select board and school committee top the five races on the ballot for the April 27 town election. Tuesday was the deadline for submitting nomination papers for the election to the office of Town Clerk Susan Galvin.  "It should be interesting," Galvin said of this years election races. She said vacancies on some high-profile town boards is part of the reason for the number of races as well as the attention issues surrounding the reopening of the schools are getting.. ...

Updated on March 4, 2021 at 9:14 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Jaime Mulligan of Milton, Massachusetts, is one of the many working moms whos been doing it all during this pandemic. “Teacher, technology director, chauffeur, never mind my full time job, housekeeper.... It’s been the hardest year of my life,” she said. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. In what little spare time she has, Mulligan assists grassroots organization Open Milto...