ALKU Scholarship COVID-19 Relief Funds Are Now Available
ALKU, in partnership with Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP), has awarded additional relief funds to its ALKU Scholarship recipients to use towards their education. Recent events directly related to...
View ArticleState Continues to Advance Solar Progress with Incentive Program Updates
The Baker-Polito Administration announced final updates to the Commonwealth’s Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program after filing emergency regulations in April. As a result of a robust...
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Virtual Lecture Looks back at Images from Women’s Suffrage Movement Join the Nichols House Museum and Professor Allison Lange for “Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement”- a virtual lecture on the...
View ArticleMassachusetts Logs Highest Unemployment Rate in the Nation for June
The state’s June total unemployment rate is up eight-tenths of a percentage point at 17.4 percent following a revision to the May rate of 16.6 percent, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce...
View ArticleMBTA to Resume Fare Collection on Buses, Trolleys, and Commuter Rail
The MBTA has resumed fare collection on buses, on trolleys at street-level stops on the Green Line and Mattapan Line, and on the Commuter Rail beginning Monday, July 20. Customers are encouraged to...
View ArticleKenzie Bok Endorses Ed Markey for United States Senate
Boston City Councilor Kenzie Bok announced today her endorsement of Senator Ed Markey for re-election to the United States Senate. Her announcement comes with a little over a month left before the...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Beacon Hill Civic Association Committees Every spring, the Beacon Hill Civic Association publishes its Annual Report covering committee accomplishments during the past year. We’ll be sharing the...
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Hill House Summer Camp Back in Full Swing
Kids participating in Hill House’s summer camp are seen enjoying the warm weather this week.
View ArticleLetter to the Editor
Trump’s Immigration Executive Order Misses Mark in a Big Way To the Editor, Last month, the Trump Administration issued an executive order suspending several categories of work visa’s through the end...
View ArticleSchools Must Be Safe to Reopen
We will be the first to concede that we do not know what exactly must be done in order to reopen our state’s public schools safely in the face of the pandemic. However, what we do know is that a large...
View ArticleMore than $1 Trillion Is Needed
We’re all familiar with the phrase, “A day late and a dollar short.” What brought that to mind this week was the announcement by the Republicans in Washington of their $1 trillion economic pandemic...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 07-30-2020
Beacon Hill Beat Violation Auto Laws 07/24/20 – A male suspect was arrested for a violation of the auto laws on Cambridge Street at about 12:08 a.m. The suspect was operating a 2001 Toyota Camry with...
View ArticleDOR’s June Revenue Collections Interim Report Shows Drop
Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) Commissioner Geoffrey Snyder today announced in an interim report that June revenue collections total $2.493 billion as of July 24, 2020, which is $761...
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Virtual Lecture Looks Back at Images from Women’s Suffrage Movement Join the Nichols House Museum and Professor Allison Lange for “Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement”- a virtual lecture on the...
View ArticleStreet Sweeping Tickets – Not Towing – Begins Again on Aug. 10
The City of Boston and the Public Works Department today that ticketing enforcement during street sweeping operations will resume on Monday, August 10. As part of the announcement, the Boston...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Beacon Hill Civic Association Committees Every spring, the Beacon Hill Civic Association publishes its Annual Report covering committee accomplishments during the past year. We’ll be sharing the...
View ArticleTruck Cutting Through Neighborhood Leaves Destruction in Its Path
A truck carrying an oversized metal frame cut a swath through the neighborhood on Wednesday, July 22, at about 8:30 a.m., toppling a tree and spinning a postal box around on the sidewalk near the...
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Cooling off on the Common
The Tadpole Playground, which remains a popular destination for families from Boston and beyond.
View ArticleLetter to the Editor
An Open Letter to the Boston City Council To the Editor, I am concerned that Gov. Charlie Baker is considering rolling back for all of Massachusetts when positive case count for our area (Back Bay,...
View ArticleDeaths Are Only Part Of the COVID Story
Whether the subject is drunk driving, gun violence, or COVID-19, the headline that grabs our attention always is the death toll, of which there tragically have been more than 150,000 of our fellow...
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