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 Milford Daily News
FRAMINGHAM More than a year has passed since the Braza Bar & Grill left its spot in Framingham after racking up violations, losing its liquor license and filing for bankruptcy.
Now that a new, similar business is proposing to move into its place, some city officials and the Police Department worry about it being, as one license commissioner put it, a “Braza redux.”
The new Brazilian eatery, 135 Grill, is inching closer to opening after having its licenses approved by the city s Board of License Commissioners on March 22 during a public hearing. But past actions of the location’s previous owners aren’t making it easy especially because of their suspected association to them by some city officials.
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.