15. April 2009 by pat desmond.

Our circulation manager is taking off a month this summer. One of the members of our editorial staff will be off for July and August.

The summer is always slow at a weekly like the Milton Times.

But someone has to process the information that comes our way. So we are looking for an intern who can multi-task to fill in during the months of July and August.

Not only does the person need to be a good typist with a great sense of grammar, but she or he also need to take care of our billing on a temporary basis.

This is a low paying position that is a great learning experience.

The successful candidate will be a news junkie, who can juggle telephone calls, e-mails and more. The candidate could be required to work occasional evenings gathering news from town government organizations. It might even be possible that the job would require handling newspaper deliveries to about 20 stores in and around Milton.

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15. April 2009 by pat desmond.

The Milton Times was nurtured into existence by my nuclear family.

In 1995 my daughter, June, my son, Tim, and my mother, Mary Erwin, created the first issue of the paper. We each brought a different set of skills to the table.

Today the ownership of the paper belongs to me and my two children. But I’m the only one still sitting in the Times office.

June is the mother of two. She lives in New Hampshire where she works for the Salvation Army as a case manager and cares for my two adorable grandchildren. Tim is a psychotherapist who works as program manager for a special pre-school in Oakland, CA. He lives with in Muir Beach with a woman he calls his significant other.

Both of my children help keep the newspaper on track despite their distance and other priorities. They toss my own words back at me if I’m wobbling.

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