Special to the Sun Mayor Michelle Wu recently signed a public tree protection ordinance, a key recommendation stemming from the City’s Urban Forest Plan. The Urban Forest Plan, released in September 2022, outlines strategies to preserve, cultivate, and expand the…
Month: January 2024
Children’s Services of Roxbury Founders Receive Drum Major Award
Special to the Sun Children’s Services of Roxbury (CSR) founders Rev. Richard Richardson and Mrs. Jestina Richardson received the Drum Major Award at the 54th Annual Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast on Monday for their extraordinary contributions to justice, diversity,…
Shedding New Light on the Hamilton and Glover Statues on the Comm Ave Mall
Completing the second of three projects inspired by their 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign begun in 2020, the Friends of the Public Garden joined representatives from the Boston Parks Department on Thursday, Jan. 11, for the lighting of the Alexander Hamilton…
Healey-Driscoll Admin. Announces Opportunities for Veteran-Owned Businesses
Special to the Sun The Healey-Driscoll Administration last week announced that the Supplier Diversity Office (SDO), which is responsible for bringing fairness to the state’s bidding and procurement process, has entered into a new partnership that will help veteran-owned businesses bid on contracts across the state. The…
Healey-Driscoll Administration Celebrates Northeastern University for Winning $6 Million
Special to the Sun The Healey-Driscoll administration is celebrating Northeastern University for winning three federal grants totaling $6 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund to support their Institute for the Wireless…
“To the Shores of Tripoli…”
The ongoing attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea by the former terrorist organization known as the Houthis, who presently are the ruling group in Yemen, are “illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing,” in the words of the dozen nations…
With No. Korea Now Involved, Aid to Ukraine Is Needed ASAP
The delay in providing much-needed military aid to Ukraine by a minority of Republican members of Congress these past few months has been nothing less than unconscionable. But now that No. Korea has intervened by giving Vladimir Putin an estimated…
Wu Highlights Initiatives in State of the City Address
By Adam Swift The future of Franklin Park, one of Boston’s open space and recreational jewels, took center stage at Mayor Michelle Wu’s State of the City address at MGM Music Hall on Tuesday night. Wu also highlighted new initiatives…
The Advent School Winter Concert
Dillon’s Notifies NABB of Plans To Expand Boylston Street Restaurant
Representatives for Dillon’s were on hand for the Jan. 8 virtual meeting of the Neighborhood of the Back Bay Licensing and Building Use Committee to outline their plans to expand the space occupied by the Boylston Street restaurant. Lesley Delaney…