The Charlestown Neigh-borhood Council (CNC) backed a plan by the Charlestown Preservation Society (CPS) to work exclusively with the Charlestown Working Theatre to try to secure a Community Preservation Act (CPA) grant for the theatre’s Bunker Hill Street building. The…
Author: Seth Daniel
PLAN Charlestown Looks at Rutherford/Sullivan, Concerns About Attendance
The PLAN Charlestown planning process held a public working meeting on May 26 to look specifically at the Rutherford Avenue and Sullivan Square areas – a large corridor of the Town that is expected to change dramatically in the next…
City Council Approves Edwards’s City Charter Amendment
Councilor Lydia Edwards cheered the passage of her long-championed Charter Amendment that would reform the way the City Budget is formulated – something that could likely be up for a vote on the Municipal Ballot this coming November. The Council…
Honoring Bill Lamb: Friends, Colleagues Dedicate City Square Bench in His Honor
Several friends, neighbors and colleagues gathered last Wednesday, May 26, to dedicate a bench to the late Bill Lamb – a long-time Charlestown resident who tragically passed in a boating accident last summer. The memorial bench and bronze plaque in…
Encore Celebrates Full Re-Opening of Casino Property
As the clock approached midnight on May 28, one would have thought it was New Year’s Eve on the gaming floor of the Encore Boston Harbor resort. Excited patrons in masks stood with bubbling enthusiasm as a gaming floor employee…
Former Heritage Club Co-Owner Calls for Investigation Into Edwards, Ryan
In an intense e-mail exchange to the Boston Cannabis Board (BCB) last week, Attorney Maggie Suprey – a former proponent of the Heritage Club marijuana store proposal – passionately called for the BCB and its attorneys to investigate the conduct…
USS Constitution Sails Again: Ship of State Hits the Water After 19 Months, Re-Opens to the Public
Ships were meant to sail, but that’s exactly what the USS Constitution in the Charlestown Navy Yard hasn’t been doing for the past 18 months – as COVID-19 had prevented the ship from leaving port until last Friday, May 21.…
Chelsea Street Pedestrian Improvements Top List
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) has scheduled a public meeting on June 2 to bring the community up-to-date on the community benefits promised by MassPort for the Little Mystic mitigation package. The meeting comes as an uproar took…
USS Constitution Museum Voted One of Top Five U.S. History Museums
Standing near the center of Old Ironsides last Friday, USS Constitution Museum Director Anne Grimes Rand and Ship Commander John Benda announced the exciting news that the Constitution Museum in the Navy Yard was voted the #5 best history museum…
Marriages Continue to Stay Postponed, Skipped in 2021
When everything shut down in 2020, and most major celebrations like marriages seemed to take a backseat, most thought the floodgates would open in 2021 for hundreds more weddings and marriage ceremonies – perhaps those that were delayed, postponed, or…