Police Briefs 04-05-2016
BEACON HILL BEAT From Boston Police Area A-1 Larceny – Shoplifting 03/28/16 – A Charles Street sporting-goods-store clerk reported an unknown male suspect came into the store at around 4:50 p.m. and...
View ArticleWalsh Announces the Opening of Boston’s Two Municipal Golf Courses for 2016
Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced that the City of Boston’s two municipal golf courses – the William J. Devine Golf Course at Franklin Park in Dorchester and the George Wright Golf Course in Hyde...
View ArticleOfficials Announce Five Goals for Cultural Plan
By Seth Daniel The Boston Creates team held its final Town Hall meeting at Bunker Hill Community College on Monday night, March 28, and revealed five goals that will be used to form the upcoming Boston...
View ArticleDearth of a Small Space:Theatre Groups are Getting Squeezed Out of Boston
By Seth Daniel It’s never easy on the cutting edge, or else it wouldn’t be the cutting edge. But at the same time, when it comes to the cutting edge and fringe small theatre companies in Boston, it...
View ArticleDowntown View:Heroic
By Karen Cord Taylor Mayor John Hynes was elected in 1949, John Collins in 1960. Collins brought in Ed Logue as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, established in 1957. These men faced...
View ArticleCommunity Leaders Express Outrage at BRA’s 6-Year Extension of Powers
By Dan Murphy Following the city council’s decision last week to grant the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) a six-year extension of its urban renewal powers, some community leaders have expressed...
View ArticleSpecial Senate Election is Next Tuesday
By Cary Shuman Beacon Hill residents will head to the polls next Tuesday (April 12) to cast their ballots in the State Senate special election primary for the First Suffolk and Middlesex District....
View ArticleDeveloper Unveils Temple Street Complex Plans
By Dan Murphy The public got a look at the latest plans for what would be the largest redevelopment project in the neighborhood’s history during a special meeting sponsored by the Beacon Hill Civic...
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Walsh Discusses Small-Business Report at BHBA Annual Meeting
Mayor Martin J. Walsh addressing the crowd at Hampshire House during the Beacon Hill Business Association’s annual meeting. By Dan Murphy Mayor Martin J. Walsh detailed findings from the city’s...
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April Snow
The spring flowers in this windowbox on Chestnut St. might seem out of season as Monday’s snowstorm dumped a few more inches in Beacon Hill.`
View ArticleDust Off the Tux and Dancing Shoes:Green and White Ball Set for April 29
The Friends of the Public Garden and Taj Boston will host the annual Green and White Ball on Friday, April 29, in the Taj Boston ballroom. This black tie and fabulously fashionable event will feature a...
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Advent School Benefit
Serafin Sanchez, Danielle Bing, Roburt Lightbody. are shown at the Advent School Spring Gala.
View ArticleBringing the City to Life, One Baby at a Time
By Seth Daniel Last July, Catherine Walker was driving home from her job as a Certified Nurse Midwife at Boston Medical Center (BMC) when a women stopped dead in her tracks right in front of Walker’s...
View ArticleMarathon Daffodils will Line Boylston St for Marathon Race
Marathon Daffodils is pleased to announce that for the third year, they will be displaying thousands of daffodils in businesses along Boylston Street, Boston’s busy Marathon Finish Line area for the...
View ArticleMass General Hospital for Children Celebrates 16th Annual ‘Aspire Gala’ to...
Mass General Hospital for Children recently celebrated the 16th annual Aspire Spring Gala, raising more than $2.3 million to support Aspire, a highly successful, therapeutically-based program of the...
View Article150th Anniversary of Christian Science Church Points to a Future of Good
By Cheryl Petersen One hundred-fifty years ago, a woman living in Swampscott, Mass., had an ah-ha moment. She couldn’t describe the epiphany, but it resulted in an instant recovery from an injury...
View ArticleBoston Strong
That is the slogan, a rallying cry, that came out of the senseless bombings of the Boston Marathon in 2013. While the culprits and their associates are either dead or in jail, their actions still live...
View ArticleDowntown View:Leslie Adams Goes Shopping
By Karen Cord Taylor Downtown Boston residents have embraced the Boston Public Market. It arrived along the Greenway at the right time. Food-lovers were tired of the agriculture-industrial complex and...
View ArticleIAG Meeting on Temple St Project
By Dan Murphy The public is invited to 74 Joy St. for the first Impact Advisory Group (IAG) meeting on the proposed residential redevelopment of the Hiriam J. Archer and Frank J. Donahue buildings on...
View ArticleCity Files ENF for 36 Sidewalk Ramps
By Stephen Quigley The long legal battle between the Beacon Hill Civic Association (BHCA) and the City of Boston over handicapped sidewalk ramps on Beacon Hill as proposed by Boston Inspectional...
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