The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) will propose raising maximum heights in and around the western half of the Hood Park by 160 feet – leaving the possibility of 275-foot-tall buildings on the properties in Charlestown abutting the I-93…
Author: Seth Daniel
Oral History Project Goes Decade by Decade on YouTube
The tales of the Battle of Bunker Hill are thoroughly researched in the annals of Charlestown’s history. So too is the Civil War era and those that served from the Town during those terrible years. But one era that has…
Coalition of Residents, CNC Members Call for Street Direction Change
Charlestown Neighborhood Council (CNC) member Mary Boucher and a coalition of neighbors – particularly from the Bunker Hill Street and Medford Street areas – are calling for at least three streets between Elm and Shorts Streets be reversed in direction…
Navy Yard Preparing for Huge Revamp Announcement
The Navy Yard National Historic Park and several partners – including the Constitution Museum – are preparing to welcome in state, local and federal dignitaries on Friday for an announcement about completely revamping the visitor experience at the Yard –…
Coleman Found Family, a Great Workplace, at the Kennedy Center
There aren’t many people who can say they’ve helped to teach thousands of the very youngest minds in the Town, but one person who can make such a boast is Donna (Blaikie) Coleman, who retired from the Kennedy Center Early…
Council Will Hold Hearing in Charlestown on Bunker Hill Re-Development
Councilor Lydia Edwards will get the ball rolling on the community review of the re-started Bunker Hill redevelopment plan at a hearing in the Town on Oct. 18. Edwards said this week that the meeting will be a follow-up to…
Three Great Choices: Charlestown Public Schools Shine on MCAS, Proving Continued Revival
The three major elementary schools in Charlestown showed tremendous achievement on the state MCAS test among all schools in the Boston Public School network, with the Harvard-Kent singled out by the district as a school continuing to be on the…
New Hood Park Plan Gets Rough Outing at CNC over Building Height
The new Hood Park revised master plan didn’t get too many supporters on Tuesday night, Oct. 2, at the Charlestown Neighborhood Council (CNC), with most councilors and audience members wary of the 200-foot-plus heights proposed. Mark Rosenshein of Trademark Partners…
Police Commissioner Gross Gets Huge Turnout for Meet and Greet
Commissioner Willie Gross returned to Charlestown on Friday, Sept. 21 – the neighborhood where he first served as a police officer in the early 1980s, and talked about the wonder of a ‘Hee-Haw’-watching kid who came to Boston from a…
Post Office Facing Time Crunch, Could End up in Temporary Structure
The Post Office in the Town is running out of time to make their delivery to a new location. As announced earlier this summer, the lease for the United States Postal Service (USPS) Post Office location at the Bunker Hill…