Special to the Patriot-Bridge Mayor Michelle Wu announced the City of Boston has received more than $47 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support nonprofit organizations providing services to individuals experiencing homelessness. This award…
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Atlantic Works Gallery Announces Its February Show Atlantic Works Gallery (AWG), the East Boston artist-run collaborative space for art and ideas, announced that as part of its traditional new year’s focus on its newest members, Renato Viganego will have a solo…
Zuckerberg, Et Al: The Worst of the Worst
Last week’s dramatic hearing in the U.S. Senate, in which the heads of a number of social media companies testified in front of a gallery that was filled with parents who lost children because of the pernicious effects of social…
…And Those On-Line Sports Betting Companies Are Not Far Behind…
A while back we wrote an editorial about the clear and obvious evils of the easy availability of sports gambling via smartphones. This past Sunday evening, the news program 60 Minutes had a segment on exactly that topic, highlighting how…
Guest Op-Ed: A Little Bit of Kindness To Protect Massachusetts Parklands and Foster Community
By Brian Arrigo Just under a year ago, I had the honor of being appointed to lead the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), the state’s largest landowner and steward of roughly half a million acres across Massachusetts. It’s been…
Guest Op-Ed: Erica, Empathy, and the Independence
By Tracy Iannelli My friend Erica is homeless. When I met her, she was sleeping in her car with her feral dog, Bert. Earlier, Erica lived in the woods with him. She told me she was an attorney, owned a…
Letter to the Editor
Scholarship Applications Are Now Available To the Editor, Once again the Old Charlestown Schoolboys Asssociation is pleased to announce that scholarship applications are now available. Would you please print the following announcement and run it for four weeks. The Old…
Obituaries 02-08-2024
Deidre Ann Malloy Charlestown Realtor — A Larger-Than-Life Individual – And a Rare Human Being Deidre Ann Malloy of Charlestown and formerly of Holliston passed away in Naples, Florida on January 5, 2024. Deidre leaves her husband, Michael Giltrap of…
DiDomenico Supports Comprehensive Gun Safety Reform
Special to the Patriot-Bridge Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico joined his Senate colleagues as they introduced Senate bill S.2572, An act to sensibly address firearm violence through effective reform—the SAFER Act—comprehensive gun safety legislation to reform and modernize the state’s…
The Chain Forge Project Is No More
By Michael Coughlin Jr. A project at the Chain Forge building at 105 First Avenue that would have brought several public amenities, including a hotel, to the Navy Yard is no longer happening after the Boston Planning and Development Agency…