Police Briefs 12-10-2020
Beacon Hill Beat From Boston Police Area A-1 Attempted Larceny A victim reported as she was walking on Beacon Street, an unknown male suspect grabbed her cellphone and fled on foot. The victim said...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Women’s Forum Wassail Party Set for Dec. 15
By Ariana Hanley On Tuesday, December 15, The Beacon Hill Women’s Forum will host their annual Wassail Party to celebrate the holiday season! Please join for a festive Zoom meeting followed by a...
View ArticleNeighborhood Roundup
Hill House Annual Tree Sale Now Happening Online Hill House, Inc. located at 127 Mount Vernon St., is offer the chance to purchase trees, wreaths and garland via its distributor, and to have them...
View ArticleStockings Hung With Care at Prescott House
By Kirsten Aucoin Raise a glass for traditions…. Christmas time at the William Hickling Prescott House, located at 55 Beacon St., looked rather different when Boston merchant James Smith Colburn...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Beacon Hill Community Fund Grant Award Winners to be Recognized At the December 14th BHCA Board of Directors meeting*, these organizations and members of our community will be recognized for their...
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Happenings on Charles Street: Upstairs Downstairs Makes a Rainy Day Bright
Special to Times Last Saturday, Dec. 5, it was disappointing for many Beacon Hill businesses and would-be holiday revelers to see the annual Holiday Stroll canceled due to pouring rain, but this did...
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BHCA Safe Holiday Stroll
Ophelia Navarro, and her son, Alessandro Navarro Gatti, shopping at Rugg Road Paper Company on December 5, during the Beacon Hill Civic Association Safe Holiday Stroll.
View ArticleGuest Op-Ed: Disappointment in Expanded Abortion
By Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts The consistent teaching of the Catholic Church is that life begins at conception and ends with natural death. As the Roman Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts, we at...
View ArticleRemember the Needy
We saw a statistic the other day that was absolutely mind-numbing: 18% of all Americans, and 24% of American children, do not have enough to eat on a daily basis. We mention this because during this...
View ArticleThank You, Gov. Baker
We’d like to take a moment to express our appreciation to Gov. Charlie Baker, who has demonstrated incredible leadership during the past nine months of a crisis that is unprecedented in our state’s...
View ArticleThe Virus Is in Our Homes
We now are fully amidst the holiday season. Hanukkah is here and the Christmas and New Year’s holiday week is fast-approaching. Public health officials at all levels of government have been warning us...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 12-17-2020
Beacon Hill Beat From Boston Police Area A-1 Larceny 12/09/20 – The suspects – two females and one male – were caught inside a Cambridge Street pharmacy stealing merchandise at around 5:50 p.m. The...
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West End Museum Closed for Winter The West End Museum is closed through at least mid-February. “While closing for most of the winter is a challenging decision, we feel that doing so is our best option...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Architectural Commission
The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission will hold a public hearing on Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89488271551. Subject of the hearing will be applications for Certificates of...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
A Good Time was Had by All… Thanks to our members, friends and neighbors who attended our virtual Holiday Celebration last Saturday evening. Over 130 people joined, and were welcomed by the BHCA, Tom...
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Congratulations, Joel Pierce
Joel Pierce was awarded the Beacon Award for “significant and sustained” contribution to the community by the Beacon Hill Civic Association board of directors on Dec. 14.
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Bathed in Blue for MGH Fund
Special to the Times On Dec. 8, the Prudential Tower and Mass General’s Bulfinch building were be bathed in blue to raise awareness of the MGH Fund, which supports lifesaving patient care and...
View ArticleThe True Spirit of Christmas
The Christmas season usually is the most wonderful time of the year. But Christmas, 2020, is anything but wonderful. We are undergoing a degree of hardship unlike any that we have experienced in our...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 12-24-2020
Breaking and Entering – Residence 12/13/20 – A Phillips Street resident reports that while she was away from home between approximately 7:20 p.m. on Dec. 12 and 12:30 p.m. the next day, she found the...
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Snow on the Hill
The Dec. 17 snow turned Chestnut Street into a winter wonderland. For some, the snow meant shoveling, For Cosmo Shattock it meant time to get out and play.
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