We Must Prepare for Rising Sea Levels
Benjamin Franklin coined the expression 200 years ago, “You should buy land because they are not making it anymore.” Well, that may not be exactly true for the last 100 years, as all the communities...
View ArticleBeacon Hill Youths Win BC High Awards
William J. Kemeza, President of Boston College High School, is pleased to announce that the following Beacon Hill students received special awards at an end of the year assembly to honor BC High...
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Cool Globes at the Brewer Fountain Plaza
The traveling art exhibit, co-sponsored by Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Greenovate Boston initiative, had its grand opening near Brewer Fountain Plaza on the Boston Common Thursday. Other globes are on...
View ArticleNEAA Dodgers (16-18) Take Home RBI Championship
The NEAA Dodgers 16-18 year old team that includes local Beacon Hill residents Jack and James Ditomassi completed their summer long season by defeating the Jamaica Plain Angels 2 games to 1 to win the...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 08-27-2013
Assault and Battery 08/16/13 – A taxi driver reported that he failed to make a right turn onto Staniford Street from Cambridge Street at around 1:01 a.m. At this time, the passenger in the rear seat...
View ArticleBLO at the Hatch Shell
The summer season is quickly winding down as Labor Day approaches. However, there are still many outdoor activities that are available. One that we would recommend is the Boston Landmarks Orchestra...
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First Pitch
On Sunday, Aug. 4, Chestnut Street resident and cancer survivor Karen Lee Sobol threw out the ceremonial first pitch when the Red Sox faced the Arizona Diamondbacks at Fenway Park. 2013 marks the 60th...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 09-03-2013
Larceny in a Building 08/23/13 – A victim reports while eating dinner in a Charles Street restaurant between 8:50 and 10 p.m., he got up to use the restroom. When he returned to his, table his luggage,...
View ArticleBoston Hockey Hotbed Attracting Beacon Hill Players
When Brian Leetch moved to Boston after signing with the Boston Bruins for the final year of his Hall of Fame career in 2005, he made a telephone call looking for a hockey program for his oldest son....
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Proper Bostonian Quilters Guild Exhibits Work by Local Artists
“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” detail of a hand pieced, hand-quilted and embroidered wall-hanging created by Terri Mazzulli of the West End, is seen above. Her original design (using “Wizard of Oz”...
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Pushing Hard to Fully Reopen
Workers are seen moving a new set of cases for frozen food into DeLuca’s Market at 11 Charles St. last week. Owner Virgil Aiello told the Times that the market is “pushing hard to fully reopen.”...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 09-10-2013
Attempted Breaking and Entering 09/01/13 – At 5:35 p.m., a male suspect arrested for attempted breaking and entering of a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta on Brimmer Street. The female victim reports while she...
View ArticleEsplanade Association and DCR to Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony for Eliot Memorial
On Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m., The Esplanade Association (TEA) and the state’s the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking at the Charles Eliot...
View ArticleEducational Survey Shows Mayoral Candidates Similarities, Differences
Like most issues in this crowded mayoral race, seven candidates who responded to a survey on educational priorities conducted last month by the nonprofit Downtown Schools for Boston share the same...
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Tree Guards on Charles Street
Keeta Gilmore, president of the Beacon Hill Civic Association board of directors (second from right), prepares to cut the ceremonial ribbon for the tree-pit donated by the group outside of 26 Charles St.
View ArticlePolice Briefs 09-17-2013
Breaking and Entering – Residence 09/06/13 – At around 10:20 p.m., a victim reported unknown person(s) broke the chain lock on the building elevator of his Beacon Street apartment and entered the...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: There’s No Place Like Home
It took two high-paced, kind of crazy, very long and very hot summer days to film the 8 ½ minute segment extolling Beacon Hill Village (BHV) that aired on the PBS NewsHour in August. But, the people...
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Nichols House Museum Awarded Prestigious Grant
“Cherry Blossoms on the Bank of the Sumido River” by Ando Hiroshige from the permanent collection of the Nichols House Museum. The Nichols House Museum, located at 55 Mount Vernon St. on Beacon Hill,...
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Two More Candidates
Beacon Hill Village member Joanne Cooper is filmed as she shares photos of her recently deceased partner to PBS NewsHour reporter Ray Suarez. District 8 City Councillor Mike Ross is running for mayor,...
View ArticleObituaries 11-05-2013
Grace Ashwell Yeomans Thaler Prominent Decorative Arts Appraiser and Consultant Grace Ashwell Yeomans Thaler of Beacon Hill and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, October...
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