A beaver that clambered up from the Neponset River at Lower Mills last night didn’t want to go back to its watery home – would-be rescuers spent nearly two hours trying unsuccessfully to convince it to head back down to the river before Milton Police came to the rescue with a recycling bin – which they gently placed atop it and then slowly pushed it to the water.
Theamwalsh, who posted about the incident, reports on the gnawing drama on Adams Street at the Milton/Dorchester line:
We weren’t first on the scene, but we hear it was in the street up closer to the intersection and some folks got it out of the street and onto the sidewalk…