MILTON The Fruit Center has requested an expanded liquor license.
The Granite Street store currently has a license to sell beer and wine but has applied for an all-alcoholic beverage license.
Michael Modestino, a lawyer representing the store, said the purpose of the request is not to sell liquor by the bottle, but to offer premixed, prepackaged cocktails. Customers want to purchase ready-to-serve beverages, Modestino told the select board during a public hearing Wednesday night, April 28. They are trying to satisfy the needs of the customers.
He said the store has no intention of increasing the display space for alcoholic beverages, currently limited by the town to 200 square feet.
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The Next Draft: Getting beer fridge of news ready for a busy spring, summer
Matthew Tota
Correspondent
In anticipation of a spring and summer filled with many more brewery visits than last year, I have started working furiously over the last few weeks to clean out my beer fridge.
Rough task, I’ll tell you: shoehorning in that extra beer or two during dinner. Then there have been the challenging, life-defining decisions of which older purchases to pour down the drain.
But like the news, the beer never stops flowing, so it’s time to get to the stories and brews that would have gotten lost behind the new stuff.
The City Council has called for a closer look in its Ways & Means Committee on spending for outside legal services, which amounted to more than $2.6 million over the last five fiscal years just on the City side of things.
Most of the expenditures came from Mintz Levin in Fiscal Year 2018, and that involved defending the City on the Power Plant tax issue, which was a $659,771 cost that year. However, Councilor Fred Capone pointed out that KP Law – the City’s designated outside legal counsel – has averaged around $160,000 per year in each of the five years, an expenditure he is questioning.
A ruling last week from Attorney General Maura Healey regarding a ban on nip liquor bottles in Falmouth may not be directly related to Chelsea, but leaders in the community here are interpreting it as another win for the effort to rid the City of the small annoyances that lead to litter and public alcohol issues.
In a March 22 ruling regarding a challenge to Falmouth’s ban, which came as a direct result to the ban Chelsea instituted two years ago – and which so far has survived all challenges – Healey said such bans do not conflict with state law.
“Under Article 34 the Town voted to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in containers less than or equal to 100 milliliters, commonly referred to as ‘nips,’” read the decision. “As explained in more detail below, we approve Article 34 because we conclude that it is not in conflict with state law.