Free Wellness for Health Care Providers ASANA Charlestown is now offering free live-streamed Yoga, Meditation, and Barre classes to Health Care Providers. The virtual studio’s aim is to offer a new way for people to sustain their wellness practices from…
Month: April 2020
Police Briefs 04-16-2020
Charlestown Beat Drugs 04/08/20 – As a result of an investigation on North Mead Street, an individual will be summonsed to Charlestown Court for possession of a Class A substance (heroin). Larceny 04/09/20 – A victim on Belmont Street reported…
A Light at the End of the Tunnel?
The United States now is the official epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. We have more deaths and more cases of disease than anywhere else in the world. However, this past weekend the experts began to give us a glimmer of…
So Let’s Talk About The Weather
The weather this April has been full of irony. We had mild months for January, February, and March, with above-average temperatures (among the warmest on record) and few storms of any consequence. However, April has been anything but spring-like. Temperatures…
Guest Op-Ed: We Are a Resilient City of Resilient People
By Mayor Martin J. Walsh The coronavirus is unlike anything we’ve experienced in living memory, and it’s testing our city in a way that it’s never been tested before. It has required a major, all-hands-on-deck response, and it has affected…
Gov. Baker Provides Update On Hospital Surge Capacity
Today, the Baker-Polito Administration provided an update on the Commonwealth’s hospital capacity and efforts to add more beds to the system to meet the expected surge in COVID-19 cases. The Administration also announced that the Department of Public Health will…
The extra $600: State offers first guidance on new unemployment claim process under CARES Act
Self-employed, gig-workers to apply on separate platform starting April 30 The state government today, April 9, announced details for the initial implementation of federal unemployment benefits in the CARES Act, the federal based COVID-19 relief package. This federal program, enacted…
Associates Deliver 250 Grocery Packages to the Neediest Senior Citizens
The Bunker Hill Associates mobilized and delivered on a major effort Tuesday that placed grocery orders in 250 senior citizen homes, hitting the neediest seniors in several buildings around the Town. President Maureen Collier, Vice President Jimmy Lister and Past…
Boston EMS Seeing Dip in Calls, But Exposure Risks Very High
When Boston EMS crews respond to the various neighborhoods for an emergency, the response is just as fast as normal, but the procedures are more deliberate and more carefully conducted. EMS Chief James Hooley told the newspaper this week that…
Charlestown Pride Week Postponed: Bunker Hill Parade Committee Looking at All Options
The most fun month in Charlestown has been postponed, and the greatest holiday parade in the Town is looking at all options on whether to move ahead this coming June – both groups making those moves in response to the…