Millis School is MA Recipient of 50 Grants Given by Target, Ellen Degeneres Show
Amy Kane didn’t think much of it, but at the spur of the moment, visiting the Ellen Degeneres Show website, the clerk for the Millis Middle School entered a contest for a chance to win one of 48 $100,000 Target grants. From November 24 through January 5, entrants could write, through an email portal, why they thought their school deserved to win. The Millis native and mother of three took a few minutes to write some heartfelt paragraphs about Millis Middle School. She clicked “submit” and forgot about it. That is, until Target called on January 25.
The Millis Board of Selectmen has appointed a Downtown Development Steering Committee to work with the Metropolitan Area planning Council’s Sustainable Development Consortium on a grant to study downtown Millis development options. The committee will help manage a nearly $40,000 grant from the Sustainable Communities Consortium which will assist the town in conducting a marketing feasibility study and creating development option for future development downtown. The parcels the committee is concentrating on are the sites of the former GAF manufacturing facility on Union St.
