Families with children in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) will be facing a major decision in the coming days and weeks regarding whether they want to choose to participate in a hybrid, in-person learning model for the fall, or to…
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Crite Park Designs Set to Be Unveiled in Person and Online This Month
Allan Rohan Crite Park was no more than a brick wall for decades until recent plans to overhaul it into another gem on Columbus Avenue surfaced last year and have gone into overdrive this spring and summer. Such a bland…
Officers Potentially Save Shooting Victim’s Life on Mass/Washington
Police officers from the D-4 Station are being credited with potentially saving the life of a shooting victim on Mass Ave and Washington Street Aug. 2 when they quickly applied a tourniquet to severe wounds he had from the gunshots.…
Restoration on Shaw 54th Memorial Moves Forward
As the ongoing restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common progresses, the sculpture’s stonework is being disassembled bit by bit before the bronze sculpture can be removed as one piece and taken off…
SELDC Grants Mandatory Certificate of Exemption to Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
The South End Landmark District Commission (SELDC), against their wishes, granted a Certificate of Exemption on August 4 to raze the former church and parish house at 85 West Newton St., home of the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts.…
Two Homicides on Mass/Cass in One Week Define Recent Uptick in Violence
The Mass/Cass area has been hit with two homicides this week, one on Friday near the Southampton Shelter and a second on Tuesday morning in Clifford Park – both hot spots on the corridor that have seen an uptick in…
Back to School…at a Five-Star Hotel? Some Colleges Surprise Residents with Hotel Plans
Dan Murphy, Lauren Bennett and Seth Daniel Plans for college and university students have begun to settle into the neighborhoods this week, surprising some and causing all to pause and think about what such a massive amount of students in…
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BPS Looks to Hybrid, In-Person Model for Fall
The Boston School Committee heard a plan from the administration of Boston Public Schools (BPS) for its proposed plans to re-open all schools this fall in a hybrid, in-person model where students would attend two days a week in groups.…
Time for Mass/Cass 3.0? WSANA Neighbors Say 2.0 Plan Is Failing
Prior to COVID-19, many residents of the Worcester Square area were upbeat about last summer’s rollout of the City’s Mass/Cass 2.0 plan to address homelessness, drug addiction and quality of life on the corridor, but now neighbors are calling the…