This Sunday, TCC – a subsidiary of Verizon Wireless, is donating 140,000 backpacks full of school supplies to children across the U.S. as a part of its 8th annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway. This year will mark more than one…
Month: July 2020
Artisan Paradise: Fine Plastering Work Finds a Home in Charlestown
Convenience and low cost rarely work out over the long term when it comes to renovating a home, and no one know that better than Colby Blauvelt of Trowel Inc. Plasterers – who has taken on his father’s business after…
DiDomenico Secures Over $135 Million in Funding for District Projects in Transportation Bond Bill
Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico and his colleagues in the Massachusetts State Senate passed a $17 billion transportation bond bill that will fund major transportation infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth in an effort to modernize, expand, and maintain our transportation…
New Housing Construction on Bunker Hill Street Going Full-Blast after COVID Shutdown
Just as the framing for the first floor of the housing project on Bunker Hill Street began in March, COVID-19 entered the scene and shut down the project – a well-received nine-unit housing construction across from St. Francis de Sales…
Second Youth-Led Discussion on Race and Policing Scheduled
Join Councilor Lydia Edwards and the Charlestown Coalition for a continued youth-led, healing conversation on race and policing with young adults from the Turn-It-Around program. The event will take place this Friday, July 24 at 1 p.m. at the Peace…
USS Bunker Hill Returns to San Diego
The guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) returned to San Diego, July 8, after a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Bunker Hill is part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a…
BPS Partners with NWEA to Administer Exam School Admissions Test
The Boston Public Schools (BPS) last week named NWEA as the vendor to administer the assessment for its three high schools that require an exam as one part of admissions criteria. The “examination schools,” Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School,…
Charlestown Artist, Joe Caruso to Show at AREA CODE Art Fair
The work of Charlestown artist, Joe Caruso, has been selected for the main on-line section of the Area Code Art Fair, the first art fair featuring contemporary artists with ties to New England. Caruso is one of 50 artists who…
Charlestown Gets Locations for Neighborhood Food Truck Pilot Program
The Bacon Truck and a few other popular food trucks will land in Charlestown at three locations this summer as part of Mayor Martin Walsh’s Boston Food Truck program – a program in response to COVID-19 that seeks to locate…
Charlestown Residents to Participate in the Reimagined 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge
On Saturday, Aug. 1, more than 10,000 participants, including 47 participants from Charlestown, will virtually take part in the reimagined 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) with the goal of raising critical funds for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber).…