Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will be bringing the annual Children’s Winter Festival to Boston Common in partnership with the Highland Street Foundation during school vacation week on Wednesday, Feb. 20, from 10 a.m.…
Art Outside the Box: New England Watercolor Society Signature Members Show
Can an artist break new ground, step out on untried paths, and still demonstrate superb control and technical mastery? To judge by the Signature Members Show of the New England Watercolor Society (NEWS), the answer is a resounding “yes.” Visitors…
For the Record
From the Feb. 20 License Board hearing, City Hall: •Emerson College D/B/A: Emerson College, 80 BOYLSTON St., Back Bay. Has applied for a Dormitory License to be exercised on the above – 13 Story Building. Manager: Erik Muurisepp. From the…
Op-Ed EPA – Do Your Job!
By Jack Clarke Among the hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed during the record-setting partial government shutdown, were those responsible for tracking pollution, safety hazards, and other threats to the american people’s health, safety, and welfare. EPA was missing…
Traffic, Traffic Everywhere
A recent national report confirmed what those of us in the Greater Boston area have known all-too-well for all-too-long: That by some measures, traffic congestion on our metropolitan roadways is the worst in the entire nation and among the worst…
Police Briefs 02-21-2019
Unwanted Visitor On Sunday, Feb. 10, at about 5:15 p.m., a female victim entered District 4 headquarters to report that she had been threatened. She said after a friend walked her to her front door at 612 Columbus Ave. at…
Finding Your Roofs – Thoughts on Tracing the History of Your South End Home – and Perhaps Your Family as Well
Ed Allan[ This guide focusses on the Eight Streets-Union Park neighborhoods of Boston’s South End, but applies to the South End in general. It should be useful also for people who want to trace the history of their homes elsewhere…
‘Night at the Symphony’
The Theresa Show at the Harriet Tubman House
IBA Celebrates Transfer of West Newton Housing
After many years of planning and seeking funding, IBA and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) have finally closed on an entire block of housing on West Newton Street in the South End – taking over what was once public housing,…
From Baton Rouge to Boston: Lemoine Joins Race for District 8 City Council
Louisiana native Landon Lemoine has lived within District 8 since 2009, and is joining Kristen Mobilia and Helene Vincent in the race for the District 8 City Council seat currently held by Josh Zakim. Lemoine was raised in Baton Rouge…
BPDA Moves to Codify Open Space on New York Streets Vacant Lot
For a small piece of vacant land, Parcel 5 attracted an outsized number of voices. Few development meetings in the South End have been as unanimous as the meeting more than a year ago at Castle Square regarding a small,…