The South End Historical Society (SEHS) will hold its 51st annual South End House Tour on Saturday, October 19th from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. Starting in the 1960s, founding member Doe Sprogis organized the South EndHistorical Society’s first four…
Month: October 2019
Fenway Studios, Mass. Historical Collaborate on Art Show
The Fenway Studios and the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) are but a few minutes’ walk from one another, but in more than 100 years of history, they’ve never combined forces. That is all about to change this month as the…
South End Save : D-4 Officers Save Choking Baby on Waltham Street
The baby’s body was next to lifeless when Officers Arthur Green and James O’Connor were handed the 6-week-old child last Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 25. Quick action was paramount. And the officers did just the right thing, bringing the baby back…
Captain Sweeney Details Crime Stats at NABB Public Safety Forum
Captain Steven Sweeney of District 4 was on hand to review and discuss the previous month’s crime stats at the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay Public Safety Committee forum on Thursday, Sept. 26 at First Church of Boston. In…
D-4 Police Briefs 10-03-2019
Bad call On Monday, Sept. 23, at around 3:26 a.m., police responded to a radio call for a robbery in progress at 116 Beacon St. Upon arrival, police spoke with the victim, who was being assisted by a Fisher College…
New Coors Ad Glorifies Problem Drinking
“The official beer of Saturday morning,” is the reprehensible (and that’s the only word that comes to mind) tag line for a new TV ad for Coors Light beer that appeared during the football games this past weekend. The ad…
Mass/Cass 2.0 features dedicated ‘boots on the ground,’ spreading out services
Dedicating more City employees to the South End and spreading out needle exchange services are two key elements in a new plan to address the opioid epidemic at Mass/Cass, a plan previewed on Tuesday by Health Chief Marty Martinez to…