To Boston Planning and Development: We Need Help To the Editor, I am confused, and I know others are confused also. There is no Master Plan for Charlestown because Plan Charlestown excludes all the large development sites being planned on…
Author: Patriot-Bridge Staff
Winter Landscapes from the 19th Century to the Present Exhibit at Fabled Antiques
Fabled Antiques announces Snowbound: Winter Landscapes from the 19th c. to Present, an exhibit of paintings depicting the rugged snow-covered beauty of Boston and New England in the heart of winter. The exhibition features works by noted nineteenth- and twentieth-century…
North Washington Street Bridge Construction Look-Ahead Through February 19
This is a brief overview of construction operations and impacts for the North Washington Street Bridge Replacement Project. MassDOT will provide additional notices as needed for high-impact work and changes to traffic configurations beyond those described below. Scheduled Work North…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Killoran Named to University of Rhode Island Fall 2021 Dean’s List The University of Rhode Island is pleased to announce that Brigid Killoran of Charlestown has been named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List. More than 6,800 students were named…
The 1887 Electoral Count Act Must Be Amended
Americans always have taken for granted the sanctity and integrity of our electoral system. For decades, we routinely have sent observers to countries where democracy is a new thing to ensure that those nations conducted their elections on the up-and-up,…
A Silver Lining To Inflation
We saw a report on the news the other night about the effect that inflation is having on food prices thanks to supply chain issues that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlighted that inflation is taking a…
Letters to the Editor
Should Not Be Allowed to Hog the Area To the Editor: I agree completely with the view taken by Lisa Allen, Carol Hickey, Phil Sherry and Marion Sweeney in last week’s paper, that putting a beer garden, The Anchor, in…
Charlestown Under Snow
DA Forms Advisory Committee
District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden announced the formation of a Community Advisory Committee to assist in the evaluation of the District Attorney’s Office, its bureaus, units, and supervisory functions, and examination of the impact of key SCDAO policies. “Community engagement…
New Charlestown COVID Testing Site
The Kennedy Center and the Bunker Hill Associates in collaboration with the Boston Housing Authority and the Charlestown Resident Alliance, are providing FREE community-wide COVID-19 testing for Charlestown residents. This walk-in site is at 55 Bunker Hill Street, in Charlestown.…