Month: October 2020
Here We Go Again! Redevelopment Hits Similar Bump in Process
Something about the general community project review meeting on the Bunker Hill Redevelopment seemed all too familiar to many at the Oct. 21 online gathering. In fact, the familiarity was that the same large, expansive barrier the project hit years…
State Officials Shut down Youth Hockey for Two Weeks
State government moved to shut down youth hockey play statewide for two weeks last Friday, Oct. 23, citing that a cluster of outbreaks have cropped up at rinks in various parts of the state – though none of those clusters…
Trusting Who You Know: Resilient Remedies Touts Home Grown Ownership for Marijuana Shop
If a marijuana stores is going to have to come to Charlestown, then it would be best to entrust that delicately responsibility to someone everyone knows – that was the message iterated several times by Charlestown’s Jack Kelly and his…
Bunker Hill Redevelopment Will Use Urban Renewal Zoning Tool
The Bunker Hill Redevelopment team and Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) officials told the community at a meeting on Oct. 28 that the massive mixed-income public housing redevelopment would use a rare, but interesting zoning tool from the Urban…
Halloween Plan B: Monument Square 35th Annual Halloween Update
There will be no Trick or Treating or Parade around the Bunker Hill Monument this year, due to COVID-19, but Charlestown residents will still celebrate a safe, fun, inclusive and memorable Halloween. The following is an update on the previously…
USS Constitution and Museum Celebrate 223rd Birthday
USS Constitution and the USS Constitution Museum celebrated the 223rd birthday of the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world during a Facebook Live presentation, Wednesday, October 21. The broadcast will began at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, highlighting pivotal moments…
COVID-19 Continue to Spike in Boston; Charlestown’s Positive Test Rate Drops 2 Percent
After Charlestown posted a 176 percent increase in the neighborhood’s COVID-19 positive test rate the numbers have dropped slightly but still remains above 4 percent. According to the latest data released by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) of the…
MWRA’s COVID Resurgence Study Sees Alarming Trend
Not everyone gets tested for COVID-19 but everyone goes to the bathroom and scientists studying the recent data at the MWRA’s Deer Island’s waste treatment facility in neighboring Winthrop are seeing an alarming trend. In June, the MWRA Board of…
Friends of Charlestown Navy Yard Win BPD Community Group of the Year
The National Night Out festivities last August were called off due to COVID-19, and a reconvening of that fun night in October isn’t happening either, but Boston Police Department (BPD) officials didn’t want to neglect giving out a kudos to…