It was only two years ago that small retailers throughout the South End began to feel a sense of unease about the future of the neighborhood’s cozy business climate. Uniting to bring attention to the cause, they awoke the South…
Month: November 2018
Holiday Happenings
2018 SoWa WINTER FESTIVAL EXTENDS FOR TWO WEEKENDS ‘Tis the season for the fourth annual SoWa Winter Festival. Now over two weekends, join SoWa for the biggest winter shopping village and holiday festival in Boston. You’ll find the perfect handmade…
News Briefs
WOMEN’S LUNCH PLACE AND MFA On Friday, Nov. 9, the Women’s Lunch Place unveiled two large painting created by local artist and SMFA at Tufts faculty member Nan Free-man. MFA director Matthew Teitelbaum and MFA Guardian Benefactor and longtime supporter…
Mixed-Use Development Planned for Parcel 12
Boston developer Samuels & Associates intends to transform air-rights Parcel 12, located at the “critical” intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston and Newbury streets in the Back Bay, into a 545,000 square-foot, mixed-use development. In the Letter of Intent filed…
Me and My Oil Guy
Late fall and winter have never been the same for me since I switched over to natural gas heat. In year’s past, most of Boston heated their homes – whether the rowhouses, the bricks or the stately residences – with…
Police Briefs 11-22-2018
D-4 Police News have his (cheese) cake and eat it, too On Monday, Nov. 12, at about 4:23 p.m., police responded to the Apple store at 815 Boylston St. to investigate a person. On arrival, an employee told the responding…
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Not being a member of the Blackstone/Franklin Neighborhood Association I did not attend the meeting that was reported as part of “The Pot Shop Campaign” in the Nov. 15 issue of the Boston Sun. I take serious issue…
Thanksgiving and Very Thankful
This Thanksgiving I am thankful to not have cancer. I hope. Six months ago my family doctor sent me for a CT scan because I went in to be checked out for something that felt weird which ended up being…
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, tracing its roots back almost 400 years to the Pilgrims, long before there was even a thought of a United States of America. Thanksgiving is the ultimate family-centered holiday. It has no national-celebration connotations,…
South End Veterans Day Ceremony
Service members 1st Lt. Jonathan Alicea, MSG Guillermo Candelario, CPT Henry Nieves, and CPT Zoraida De La Rosa stand by the Puerto Rican Veterans Monument during the annual Veteran’s Day observance in the South End on Sunday, Nov. 11. City…