As the school day goes from morning to afternoon on Mondays and Thursdays at the Harvard-Kent School, there’s one thing that excitedly stays on the minds of many of the young people. That excitement is Hero Sports – a program…
Author: Seth Daniel
Encore Boston Harbor Working with State, MGC on Coronavirus
Few companies in Massachusetts have the experience of dealing with the Coronavirus in the way that Encore Boston Harbor’s parent company, Wynn Resorts, has over the last two months. Last month, the company’s resorts in Macau, China had to close…
PLAN Charlestown to Continue with Historical Perspective this Month
The PLAN Charlestown initiative will continue with its second meeting on March 24 in the Charlestown High School Cafeteria. The effort kicked off on Jan. 30 with a jam-packed house at the Warren Prescott School, an open house format that…
Charlestown Votes: Democrats Remain United Against President Trump Following Super Tuesday Outcome
While some local Democratic leaders were shocked by the outcome of Super Tuesday, especially with Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s third-place finish in her home state, they agree that defeating Presidential Trump in November is their top priority. For Charlestown and Boston…
Bunker Hill Re-development Meetings Kick Off March 18
Community meetings for the Bunker Hill Re-development project will begin on March 18 following last month’s official filing of plans with the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), and already elected officials in the neighborhood are providing feedback. The development…
Former ATF Agent to Speak on Solving Infamous Boston Arson Cases
The leads had dwindled and houses and buildings were burning down nearly every day in the early 1980s. AFT agents like Wayne Miller were working the case hard, but getting nowhere. Then they interviewed a Boston Police officer named Robert…
McGonagle/McGoff Tourney Brought Excitement to CYHA Mites
It came down to a shootout. Nine Hyde Park players had come at Charlestown Mite 1 Goalie Reed Fullerton, and he had turned all nine away. It was a game that was miraculously close as Hyde Park had beaten the…
Charlestown’s O’Brien Finds a Home as a Homework Helper
On most Monday or Thursday afternoons, one can find Charlestown’s Jim O’Brien sitting in the front room of the Charlestown library, actively helping students organize their homework assignments. It’s an assignment he’s not unfamiliar with having been a Boston Public…
BPDA receives new documents on Bunker Hill Redevelopment
The new development partnership of Leggat McCall and Corcoran filed its documents with the City – a Draft Project Impact Report (DPIR) – to begin the official reviews of the 10-year, massive, mixed-use, mixed-income public housing redevelopment project at Bunker…
Leap Year Lady: Charlestown’s oldest resident turns…26?
When Charlestown’s Irene Morey thinks back through the many years, the sharp-witted woman unlocks memories from times long past – the many decades she’s lived through: the presidents, the accolades, the ups and the downs. As Charlestown’s oldest resident, Morey…