For the second year in a row, Amanda Blicharz has placed in the Mayor’s Garden Contest, taking second place this year in the ‘Medium Yard’ category for the citywide summer competition. Blicharz took third place in the category last year…
Month: September 2018
BLA/BLS Shuttles Will Return Without a Fight
In Charlestown, when a student is headed off to one of the exam schools, the list for back to school has routinely included fighting Boston Public Schools and the City for another year of the bus shuttle. That won’t be…
Police Briefs 08-23-2018
Charlestown beat Investigate Premises 08/14/2018 – At about 9:53 a.m., an officer responded to the area of Bunker Hill and Lexington streets and recovered some ballistic evidence. Arson 08/19/2018 – At approximately 04:15 a.m., officers responded to Walford Way for…
Townie Tidbits
WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN TO OUR POST OFFICE? The news is out there at the end of this year, basically the Charlestown post office must leave the Bunker Hill Mall because the owners of the mall and CVS Pharmacy are working…
Don’t Gamble the Planet’s Future on Unproven Technology
A group of senators recently introduced a bill that aims to combat climate change by funding research into “negative emission technologies,” which take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and store them underground. But these technologies aren’t very effective —…
Letter to the Editor
I WAS AGHAST Dear Editor: I was aghast to learn the news about the Charlestown post office not having its lease renewed (Patriot-Bridge article, Aug. 16, 2018). As a 20-plus year resident here in Charlestown (the Navy Yard), I have…
Summer: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
For those of us who live for the triple-H weather of summer — hazy, hot, and humid — the six-week period we enjoyed from July 4th week through this past Saturday was our proverbial cup of tea. Temperatures in the…