As the deadline for the 2022 funding round for the Community Preservation Act grants approaches, Councilor Ed Flynn is urging South End residents to apply for CPA funding for relevant projects. Interested applicants would need to contact the Community Preservation…
Month: August 2021
Local Artists and Organizations Receive City Art Grants to Increase Neighborhood Public Art
This week the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awards grants to artists and organizations to create short-term public art projects and activations of public spaces through the Transformative Public Art program. In the Back Bay the Ágora Cultural Architects’…
Make the Most of the Rest of Summer
If nothing else, the Summer of 2021 has taught us an age-old lesson: The only thing that is certain about life is uncertainty. Remember when President Biden told the country in the spring that his goal was to have the…
The Unvaccinated Are Rebels Without a Cause
For the majority of our readers — who are vaccinated (because we live in Eastern Mass.) — the reasons being given by those who refuse to get the shot, even when they are dying in the hospital, are inexplicable. The…
Coffee Hour With the Mayor in Back Bay
Old South Church Installation Depicts Inhumanity of Slavery
A large banner now hanging outside Old South Church depicts people packed as cargo into a ship juxtaposed against those of the faces and families of those who might be descended from former slaves, or what these people might’ve looked…
Mayor’s Office Seemingly Disbands Mass/Cass Task Force, Calls for “Revamp”: Grass-Roots Community Working Group to Re-Form This Month
The City has announced that next month it will be revamping the nearly two-year-old Mass/Cass 2.0 plan for the South End/Newmarket area, as well as the public-private Task Force that was intended to guide the plan – but many now…
Open Newbury Street Welcomes Residents and Visitors Alike to Shop and Dine Right on the Road
Open Newbury Street was back for its first Sunday of 2021 on August 15, where residents and visitors alike roamed Newbury Street in the middle of the road to explore offers and opportunities from businesses and restaurants. The city will…
‘Anyone Can Help a Pollinator’: Butterfly Release at Childe Hassam Park
Members of the Friends of Childe Hassam Park held the first of what might be many Monarch butterfly release events last Friday, putting out 13 Monarch butterflies into the well-manicured South End park on Aug. 13. Elizabeth Bertolozzi, of the…
Two Haitian Americans Running for At-Large City Council Ask for Help for Their Homeland in the Wake of Latest Earthquake
Haiti was still recovering from the violent 2010 earthquake that killed 200,000 Haitians when another magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula the impoverished country on Saturday. The latest earthquake killed at least 1,419 people and injured another 6,900 and…