TWIN SANTA VISITS: Shannon (Lundin) White and her husband, Mark White, brought the whole family to see Santa Claus on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the First Church in Charlestown’s Breakfast with Santa and Holiday Bazaar. Big sister Tatum joined the new twins, Brynn and Oliviah, for their first visit to old Santa Claus. The...
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Mayor Martin Walsh presenting Marine Corps Sgt. Lynn Alexis with gifts for Toys for Tots at the Warren Tavern on Dec. 2 during the annual Toys For Tots kick-off. All of the toys gathered go to local organizations to assist needy families during Christmas.
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Thank goodness for Mickey Mouse and space travel. Were it not for those two things, according to celebrated Charlestown citizen Gerard Doherty, he may have never learned to read, never attended Malden Catholic, never made his way to Harvard University and never become Charlestown’s...
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The announcement of a $1 billion school building plan in most cases would be met with great fanfare citywide, but the rollout of the BuildBPS Facilities Plan Phase 2...
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Harvest on Vine Food Pantry The Harvest on Vine Food Pantry is requesting boxes of cereal and small bags of rice, two items that empty the shelves fast. Any...
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The Charlestown turf field has gotten major repairs over the past few weeks, a Boston Parks Department spokesman told the Charlestown Neighborhood Council (CNC), on Tuesday night, but a...
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The Charlestown Resident Alliance (CRA) and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) announced a change in the leadership for the resident organization of the Bunker Hill Public Housing Community. Nancy...
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Hood Park – Transportation Focused Discussion A second Public Meeting, hosted by the BPDA with the Hood Park Development Team, to discuss Transportation related topics to the proposed area....
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Charlestown Beat Larceny 11/27/18 – A victim on Pearl Street reported someone stole the resident parking sticker from his motorcycle. Burglary – No Force 11/27/18 – A victim...
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Harvard-Kent Elementary Students cannot wait for a sixth grade Expanding the Harvard-Kent to sixth-grade is the perfect pilot for BuildBPS, which proposes grade reconfigurations to K-6 and K-8s. It...
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JACK KELLY TALKING AGAIN OVER IN EASTIE If you didn’t get the opportunity to listen to author Jack Kelly talk about his struggles with addiction and his road of...
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With the Christmas season in full swing, there will be the usual office, family, and neighborhood parties for all of us to partake and enjoy. By no means do...
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This is a wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories...
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Nolan Burns (front) and Jimmy Lister fight for bragging rights in the annual Turkey Time fundraising hockey game on Saturday night, Nov. 24. The annual game raises funds for...
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Carol Cardello, Author Bobby Powers, and Karen Dean-Smith during Monday night’s author talk at the Charlestown Public Library. Long-time Charlestown resident, and poet, Bobby Powers presented his book of...
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An informational meeting was held at the Nazzaro Community Center in the North End Tuesday night to update the public on the North Washington Street Bridge, which now has...
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When throngs of Christmas revelers descend on the Warren Tavern this Sunday, Dec. 2, to kick off the Toys for Tots toy drive in Charlestown, there will be hundreds...
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The monthly meeting of the Charlestown Neighborhood Council will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Knights of Columbus Hall, 545 Medford St. We will...
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ARTISTS GROUP DECEMBER EVENTS AT STOVEFACTORY This December don’t miss out on local art. On Saturday and Sunday Dec. 1 and 2, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. visit...
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On any given day, when Debbie (Swales) Burke heads to her job as the chief of nursing at Mass General, she walks through Charlestown and runs into old friends,...
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Two 90-foot-tall digital billboards to be built on the Sullivan Square bus yard property were deferred on Tuesday morning at the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA). Few details were...
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When Elizabeth McCarthy, a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), was helping to mediate a suspension hearing a few years ago with a second-grade student, the student...
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The family of a man and woman who drove their car accidentally off of Pier 6 while parking told the Patriot-Bridge this week that they are extremely grateful to...
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REMEMBERING THE COMBAT ZONE Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in Roxbury and the South End, I often walked into Downtown or when my friends and I were...
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