City Councilor Michelle Wu filed an ordinance this week to add a “modest fee” for resident parking permits across the city, as well as to create a visitor parking pass. Wu has proposed parking permit fees in the past, but…
Boston Mayflower Replica Unveiled to Commemorate 400th Year Anniversary
by Marianne Salza On Sept. 6, 1620, religious separatists departed from England in search of spiritual freedom. Exactly 102 passengers and 30 crew members embarked on a 66-day journey to the New World aboard the Mayflower. The Pilgrims’ arrival in…
District 4 Sees Minor Drop in Part One Crime in ‘19
As the first quarter of 2019 drew to a close, District 4 had seen a minor decrease in violent and property crime, compared with last year. According to Boston Police, 668 Part One crime incidents were reported in the district,…
Police Briefs 04-25-2019
D-4 POLICE NEWS No walk in the park On Monday, April 15, at around 10:43 a.m., police responded to a radio call to investigate a person at Blackstone Park at the intersection of West Brookline and Washington streets. Upon arrival,…
For the Record
City Council Committee on Government Operations Working Session The Committee will hold an April 25 working session at 10 a.m. on an order for a hearing to discuss free-standing signs on public walkways. The Chair of the Committee is Councilor…
The Curse of Social Media And the Internet
In the aftermath of the terrible coordinated attacks by suicide bombers on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and wounded about 500 in churches and hotels across the small nation, the Sri Lankan government took…
Guest Op-ed Grassley-Klobuchar Ushers in Dangerous Counterfeit Drugs
By Sally C. Pipes Congress is poised to consider a bill that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada. The bill’s authors — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — label their effort as a bipartisan…
Easter Egg Hunt at Clarendon St Playground
Cathedral of the Holy Cross Opens Its Doors
Motor Mart Garage Project gets a New Look
The team behind the proposed redevelopment of the Motor Mart Garage presented their reconfigured design and results of further impact studies during a city-sponsored meeting on Wednesday, April 10, at the Revere Hotel. An affiliate of the Los Angeles-based CIM…
Chase Bank Retail Branch Experiment Expands to the South End
Chase Bank’s new venture into retail banking will hit the South End before the end of the year, one of the first branches to hit Boston neighborhoods after an aggressive goal to locate 60 branches throughout New England. Alex Ong,…
South End, Back Bay Rake in Capital Projects in Latest Four-Year Plan
From new play equipment at the Clarendon Street Playground in the Back Bay to design work for a new fire station in the South End, the downtown neighborhoods raked in several new projects within the 2020-2024 Capital Budget, which was…