More Than Words (MTW) of Boston and Waltham has been announced by Massachusetts Center for the Book as the recipient of the 2020 Library of Congress/Massachusetts State Literacy Award. Funding for the state literacy awards program is made possible through…
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Whittier Street Mobile COVID Testing Hits Back Bay, Newmarket
The Whittier Street Health Center on Tremont Street has wheels, and their mobile COVID-19 testing lab is coming to the area for free testing of all residents – no appointment necessary. The Mobile testing facility travels through the area and…
Outdoor Dining Surges on Newbury, Hopes for Longer-Term Situation
Outdoor dining is a great luxury in some American cities, but it took a pandemic for it to become a potentially permanent feature of the Boston dining scene, and now many restaurant operators clinging to anything they can get to…
The Grande Dame of Worcester Square: Rose Mehegan Passes at 98
If one searched hard enough, somewhere in the center of Worcester Square park in the South End, they would likely still find the thumbprint of Rose Mehegan – a former resident of the Square who ran traditional lodging houses there…
Red Sox Give Grants to Ten Fenway Organizations
Ten community organizations in the Fenway will receive a total of $100,000 this summer through the latest round of the Fenway Park Demonstration Project Community benefits fund – a fund maintained by the City and Red Sox since 2013. The…
BBAC Approves Condensers, Screening Wall; Denies Penthouse
The Back Bay Architectural Commission met virtually on July 8, where only three projects were on the docket for design review at 285 Clarendon St., 184 Beacon St., and 126 Marlborough St. 285 Clarendon St. At 285 Clarendon St., applicant…
Walsh Announces In-Person Summer Youth Programming for BCYF
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) last week announced that online registration has opened for City-operated summer youth programs and classes, all of which are designed and will be operated in accordance with current…
Friday Night Supper Program Receives Boston Resiliency Fund Grant for Meals
Since 1984, Friday Night Supper Program (FNSP) has been providing hot, three course meals every Friday to homeless and low income individuals and families out of the Arlington St. Church. Having never missed a Friday, the COVID-19 crisis forced the…
Police Reduction Outlined in Plan Raises Concerns
It is the first summer the Boston Police and all City departments have entered warmer weather with coordination and a defined plan on how to handle drug abuse, homelessness and quality of life issues on the Mass/Cass corridor – an…
Keeping the Tradition Going, Festival Betances Moves Online
Festival Betances is the jewel of July in the South End on most summers, but COVID-19 threatened its very existence this year, and now organizers are trying to keep the tradition alive by moving it online this year. IBA Executive…