After hundreds of Charlestown residents gathered with friends and family over Thanksgiving weekend, public health officials are keeping a close eye for increases in COVID-19 infections in the neighborhood. While Charlestown weekly COVID positive test rate did decrease last week,…
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Start the New Year With a New Career at the MBTA
The MBTA is aggressively hiring new employees to join its dynamic workforce. It takes many people to move over a million trips a day, and the 6,500-person MBTA is redoubling efforts to hire hundreds of open positions – from train…
Gil Elected to the Board of Directors of the New England Employee Benefits Council
The New England Employee Benefits Council (NEEBC), a leading source of unbiased employee benefits and total rewards education and professional development opportunities, announces that Charlestown resident Marianna Gil, a long-time NEEBC supporter and among our speakers and panelists, has been…
Stories from the Shipyard: USS Macdonough (DD-351) and USS Monaghan (DD-354) in Action on December 7, 1941
By Michael P. Manning, Chair, Friends of the Boston Harborwalk Eighty years ago next week, the Japanese Imperial Navy Air Service launched a surprise and devastating attack on United States Pacific Fleet bases in Hawaii at Hickam Field and Pearl…
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Concert at St. John’s Set for Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Church will sponsor a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, at the church located at 27 Devens St., and everyone is invited to attend. The…
NSMHA CEO Jackie K. Moore Announces Retirement
North Suffolk Mental Health Association Chief Executive Officer Jackie K. Moore, Ph.D., has announced her intent to retire after more than 16 years at the helm of the Chelsea-based behavioral health nonprofit. The NSMHA Board of Directors has engaged national…
Charlestown Sees 40-Percent Reduction in Part One Crime from Last Year
Leading up to Thanksgiving, Charlestown had seen a 40-percent reduction in Part One crime from last year, according to Boston Police. Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 21 of this year, 227 incidents of Part One crime took place in Area…
Charlestown Man Sentenced on Gun Trafficking Charges
A Charlestown man was sentenced this week for trafficking more than three dozen firearms obtained from a straw purchaser in New Hampshire that ended up in the hands of gang members. He was also sentenced on a second charge of…
Local Student Earns Academic Honors
Tan Named to Spring 2021 Dean’s List at Stonehill College Felix Tan, of Charlestown a member of the Class of 2024, has been named to the Spring 2021 Dean’s List at Stonehill College. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students…
Mothers Out Front Brings Its Renewable-Energy Message to the State House
Around 30 representatives from the downtown neighborhoods for Mothers Out Front – a national, grass-roots group of mothers, grandmothers, and other caregivers advocating for a transition off of fossil fuels to renewable energy in an effort to combat climate change…