This week the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awards grants to artists and organizations to create short-term public art projects and activations of public spaces through the Transformative Public Art program. In the Back Bay the Ágora Cultural Architects’…
Author: John Lynds
Two Haitian Americans Running for At-Large City Council Ask for Help for Their Homeland in the Wake of Latest Earthquake
Haiti was still recovering from the violent 2010 earthquake that killed 200,000 Haitians when another magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula the impoverished country on Saturday. The latest earthquake killed at least 1,419 people and injured another 6,900 and…
COVID Cases Back up in the Immediate Area
After experiencing a 10 percent decrease in the weekly COVID positive during the final weeks of July, the weekly positive test rate has increased again in the Back Bay and the surrounding neighborhoods. According to the weekly report released last…
EBNHC President CEO Manny Lopes to Leave Health Center for Blue Cross Blue Shield
Manny Lopes’ ascension to the role of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s President and CEO is a story that embodies EBNHC’s mission and commitment to the community. Nearly three decades ago Lopes, who grew up in Jeffries Point, joined the…
Violent Part One Crime Up 30-Percent; Other Part One Crimes Down 13-Percent
Last week the Boston Police released its half-year crime stats that compares January 1, 2021 through July 25, 2021 with the same time period last year and found Violent Part One Crime is down in District D-4 as is Non-violent…
EBT/SNAP benefits expanded to online purchases
During the height of the pandemic when most South End and Fenway residents were staying home and doing their food shopping from the comfort of their home. While the online grocery delivery service industry exploded because many were not comfortable…
Boston BeerWorks the latest Beantown business to fall victim to the pandemic
Another landmark Boston location has joined the growing lists of businesses unable to survive the pandemic. Boston BeerWorks, which opened its first location in 1992 across from Fenway Park, announced on its website and social media Tuesday it will close…
COVID-19 Cases Spike 115 Percent in the Area
For a third week in a row Back Bay, Beacon Hill, North End, West End and Downtown’s COVID cases have spiked most likely due to the Delta variant infecting unvaccinated and vaccinated people alike. Earlier this month a COVID outbreak…
CRWA, EPA Announce Water Quality Grades for the Charles and Muddy Rivers
For years Save the Harbor/Save the Bay has been releasing beach reports cards that rate the quality of the water at state-run beaches from Nahant to Nantasket. Now the Charles River Water Watershed Associations (CRWA) and US Environmental Protection Agency…
Ellis Early Learning VP Patricia Daniel Keenan Nominated as a Commonwealth Heroine
Last week, Rep. Edward Philips (D-Sharon) announced he nominated South End’s Ellis Early Learning Vice President Patricia Daniel Keenan with the 2021 Commonwealth Heroine Award for her commitment to improving the quality of life in the neighborhood and beyond. Keenan…