Halloween Happenings
Back Bay Won’t Close Marlborough for Halloween NABB and the Friends of the Clarendon Street Playground work with the City Transportation Department and the District D-4 Police Department to close...
View Article‘An Emerald Evening In’ Raises More Than $75,000 for the Emerald Necklace...
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy (ENC) held its first ever “Emerald Evening In,” a virtual fundraiser to support the organization’s work in Boston’s Emerald Necklace parks. Hosted by Jared Bowen of...
View ArticleOrgan Donor: Abbott Has Spent a Life-Time Dedicated to Restoring, Fundraising...
When Leo Abbott moved to the South End’s Union Park neighborhood in 1984, he quickly took to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and petitioned repeatedly to become the Music Director at the church. He...
View ArticleJudge Grants Harassment Order Against Mass/Cass Activist Domingos Darosa
The struggle against conditions on the Mass/Cass corridor has reached Gov. Charlie Baker’s driveway, and Baker’s wife, Lauren, won an unusual battle against one Mass/Cass activist on Monday when a...
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Limestone Applied to Comm. Ave. Mall to Improve Soil
The white powder seen last week dusting the Commonwealth Avenue Mall wasn’t evidence of the season’s first snowfall, but rather a sign of the steps that the Friends of the Public Garden continually...
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Parks Department Notes Several Neighborhood Locations as Great Urban Leaf...
This fall is particularly hard to “escape to the country” to view the brilliant colors of the trees as the season changes, but the Boston Parks Department has put together a list of great places to...
View Articleétant Continues to Serve South End, Thanks to Stacy Koeppel...
When Stacy Koeppel got word that étant, Spa for Well Being would close at the end of September, she couldn’t just passively watch the longstanding South End business where she had worked as the spa...
View ArticleSt. Botolph Neighborhood Association Looks at Planned Redevelopment of...
The St. Botolph Neighborhood Association held its first Community Meeting since July virtually on Tuesday, Oct. 27, which included an update on the planned redevelopment of the Midtown Hotel. National...
View ArticleDe-centralization Discussion Dominates WSANA Meeting
Getting the concentration of human services spread out beyond the South End has been a key part of the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association (WSANA) for several years now as the opioid...
View ArticleHearing for Man Accused of Setting Ballot Box on Fire
The man charged with setting fire to a Copley Square ballot box was ordered held without bail late yesterday, pending the outcome of a dangerousness hearing on Friday. In Boston Municipal Court...
View ArticleEarly Voting Last Weekend Proved Popular Once Again
Duplicating the excitement of early voting in the September Primary Elections, more than 2,000 voters came out last Saturday and Sunday to the Copley Square library for the downtown neighborhood’s...
View ArticleNext year’s Boston Marathon Postponed Until Fall 2021
There will be no grand, long-distance finishes of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street this coming spring, but maybe in the fall of 2021. The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) has announced that...
View ArticleResidents Speak Out after Partnership Announced for More Redevelopment around...
On October 19, Fenway Sports Group Real Estate, ’47 Brand—owned by the D’Angelo family— and WS Development announced a partnership to redevelop parcels of land around Fenway Park. According to a press...
View ArticleProject Place Works to Help Marginalized Populations Vote Nov. 3
Voting can be aggravating when polling places change locations, or there are long lines to wait in on a presidential election, but those are nothing like the barriers some encounter when they don’t...
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Save the Trees on Melnea Cass
Photo By Seth DanielDavid Holzman hugs a tree tight on Melnea Cass Boulevard lastSaturday afternoon for an in-person action meant to hammer home thecontinued support by residents of Roxbury and the...
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Jazz Concert at Worcester Square
Photo By Derek KouyoumjianNeighbors Christopher Peter and Jaime Watson listened to live jazz and chatted over the Worcester Square fence, catching up with what’s new after a long hiatus away from...
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South End/Bay Village Liaison gets promotion, brings in new liaison
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the appointment of former South End/Bay Village mayoral liaison Faisa Sharif as the deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS), opening the...
View ArticleCity Health Officials Say Cases Surging Due to Small Gatherings
City officials are warning residents that part of the uptick in COVID-19 cases seems to be clusters in households that seem to be coming not from blockbuster parties, but rather small gatherings that...
View ArticleBaker Announces New COVID Guidelines and Restrictions, Including New...
Following days of new coronavirus cases over 1000, Governor Charlie Baker on Monday afternoon announced several new guidelines and restrictions to help stop the spread of the virus in Massachusetts....
View ArticleWalsh Addresses Election, Coronavirus in Nov. 4 Update
Following the election, Mayor Walsh held a press conference on November 4, where he talked about voter turnout and moving forward with the election process, as well as provided an update on...
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