The Baker-Polito Administration on Friday announced new policies that will provide families who require childcare while their children are engaged in remote learning additional options by allowing programs to offer supervised care during regular school day hours. Governor Charlie Baker…
EBNA Sees Improvements in Peters Park Homeless Situation
The East Berkeley Neighborhood Association (EBNA) kicked off the fall civic season in the South End from behind a computer screen, with public meetings still being held online due to COVID-19 restrictions. At the top of the list for the…
Boston Local Development Corporation Receives Cares Grant to Support Loans for Boston Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Monday that the Boston Local Development Corporation has received a $693,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to provide loans to…
Virtual Panel Discussion Focuses on Reexamining Public Monuments During ‘Time of Racial Reckoning’
As part of the programming planned in conjunction with the ongoing restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common, a virtual discussion took place Monday, Aug. 25, on reconsidering and reevaluating the nation’s public…
Boston Resiliency Fund Is Supporting BLO Partnership to Produce Clear-Front Face Masks
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that through a grant provided by the Boston Resiliency Fund, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will work with its local costume shop partner, CostumeWorks, to initially produce over 1,800 lip-reading-friendly clear-front face masks to support Boston’s…
Northeastern University Picks up Again on 26-Story Student Housing Tower
Northeastern University has picked things back up on the proposed 26-story student housing tower on Columbus Avenue in the South End, with the Boston Planning and Development Agency calling for a Sept. 22 meeting of the Northeastern Task Force. The…
Gov. Baker Deactivates the National Guard After a Few Days
After calling up the National Guard on Friday, Aug. 28, for up to 1,000 Guardsman to potentially help municipal leaders, Gov. Charlie Baker deactivated the National Guard on Monday. Baker said National Guard members were there to assist municipalities until…
DCR to Restart Parking Enforcement for Street Sweeping
Starting on Tuesday, September 8, and continuing through Monday, November 30, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will commence parking enforcement along all DCR Parkways during street sweeping operations. On designated sweeping days, parking is prohibited at various times. Massachusetts…
Enjoy a Safe Labor Day Weekend
“Time and tide wait for no man,” wrote the poet. The summer of 2020 is entering its final week as we approach the traditional Labor Day weekend and once again the summer season has flown by much faster than any…
A Summer of Chaos And Tragedy
As America approached the Memorial Day weekend of 2020, the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States stood at just under 100,000 of our fellow Americans. But now, three months later, that number soon will have doubled, as our…
Tubman House Sale Brings Out Protests, Triggers Vandalism: Court Case and Injunction Filed Last Week Quickly Dismissed
Protests broke out again on Aug. 20 over the sale of the Tubman House on Mass Avenue, and the mural on the building was defaced early Monday – only days after the project was approved to move ahead with demolition…
Shaping a City: After a Lifetime in the South End, the Hershfangs Leave the Neighborhood
Boxes of old photos, remembrances of friends long gone and paperwork that was once critical to changing the shape and culture of Boston and the South End have been leaving the long-time West Rutland Square home of Herb and Ann…