Milton Good Companions are holding a combined coffee morning and bring & buy sale with cakes and Christmas raffle this Friday (29/11) from 11am to noon at Barnabas Court. All welcome.
Author: Paul Oldham
Recycling your old Directories
As the (now much shrunk) Thompson Local is again dropping onto doormats around the village a reminder that directories can be recycled in the paper caddy. See the Which bin does this go in? pages on the web site for more.
Mobile Library Service Reduced
The county council mobile library service has been reduced so that with effect from this month (which we weren’t warned about) the visit to The Rowans on the first Friday of the month is now 10:50 to 11:15. It was previous 10:50 to 11:50. So the revised times are: 1st Friday Milton Post Office, Coles […]
Remembrance Sunday Service
The congregation from All Saints’ will gather at the war memorial on Sunday (10/11) for the Act of Remembrance as part of their Remembrance Sunday service which begins as usual at 10:30am in church, and then returns to the church for the remainder of the service which concludes with coffee and cake by 11:45am. All […]
Remembrance Day
You are invited to the War Memorial on Coles Road on Monday (11/11) at 10:50am. There will be two minutes silence at 11am after which the words of “For The Fallen” will be spoken by Normandy veteran Ron Driver and a wreath will be laid by the chairman of the parish council.
Milton Netball Club Quiz Night
Milton Netball Club has decided that they want to do something for their community. They have therefore decided to take part in the Arthur Rank Hospice accumulator challenge. The idea is Arthur Rank give £50 to invest and 12 weeks to raise as much money for the Hospice as possible. This money can be raised […]
Fifteen Years of Milton News
On 9th December 1998 the first Milton News mailing went out to subscribers so the list is now celebrating its fifteenth birthday. In those days: Milton News was only a mailing list (called milton-news). No web site or Twitter feed. It ran on the majordomo list server but as time went by it was switched […]
Wildlife Watch
If your children are interested in the changes happening in nature as summer ends and finding out more about hootin’ tootin’ owls, pond dipping and butterflies then don’t miss the monthly meetings of the Cambridge Wildlife Watch, the junior branch of the Wildlife Trusts, at . The sessions which take place on the first Saturday […]
Harvesting down Fen Road
The College of West Anglia are expecting the crop of maize in the field east of the railway line to be harvested next week. Frances Cook writes: As you may have noticed we have rented out some land down Fen Road for the growing of maize for bio fuel. Today we have received notification from […]
Country Park Closed
Due to the forecast of storm force winds overnight the Rangers at are putting into effect the ‘closure policy’ from 5pm tonight and it will remain closed to all visitors until an assessment is made tomorrow morning. The Park has a lot of trees and the Rangers are expecting some damage, which may take sometime […]
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