By Seth Daniel A two-alarm fire ripped through the top floor of a home on Lyndeboro Street on Thursday morning, Sept. 7. Firefighters responded to the scene at 24 Lyndeboro Street – off of Middlesex Street – around 7:30 a.m.…
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Exam School Parents Call for Community to Attend Oct 4 School Committee Meeting
By Seth Daniel Several advocates who are still frustrated by this summer’s threat to cut the neighborhood buses to Boston Latin School (BLS) and Boston Latin Academy (BLA) are continuing to organize and hope to bring a crowd to the…
Mayoral Debate Falls Flat with Last Minute Disagreement
By Seth Daniel Tuesday night’s highly-anticipated mayoral debate between the two perceived leading candidates, Mayor Martin Walsh and Councilor Tito Jackson, fell flat on its face late last week when the two camps disagreed about who should be on stage.…
Massport Supports Summer Jobs for Local Students
More than a dozen Charlestown students earned a paycheck this summer thanks to the Massachusetts Port Authority’s Community Summer Jobs Program. Now in its 26th year, Massport’s program supported 19 Charlestown high school and college students in summer jobs with…
Second Annual ‘Disco for David’ Will Hit the Dance Floor Friday
By Seth Daniel It’s hard to forget a person who was such a pillar of the community like David Whelan, and it’s even harder to forget such a person when they’ve imprinted their innovative and enduring disco dance moves on…
More Local Organizations Back Stephen Passacantilli for District 1 City Council
Stephen Passacantilli, a North End civic leader, Boston Public Schools parent, and former staffer to City Councilor Sal LaMattina has earned the endorsements of prominent local organizations, including the Charlestown-based Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen Local 3, East Boston’s Ward 1 Democratic…
Two Teens Charged in Bomb Hoax
The Massachusetts State Police will summons two teenagers to face criminal charges for putting a threatening note on a student’s car at Bunker Hill Community College in July. The threat, which the suspects said was made as a prank, caused…
New School Year Starts at MGH Instiute
MGH Institute of Health Professions officially began the 2017-2018 academic year on September 11, as the fall semester’s classes started for the more than 1,600 students who are enrolled in the Boston graduate school’s myriad health professions programs. First-year students…
Returning Home
Former Harvard Kent student Richard Garcia (center) returned to his old elementary school on Aug. 31 with his employer, RSM of Charlestown, to give back to the community and help prepare the schoolyard for the first day of school, which…
Lemonade for Houston:Local Kids Raise Money at Monument
By Seth Daniel Abigail and Emery DeRoeve had been after their parents all summer to have a lemonade stand up at the Monument. The time just had never been right, until last week when the family looked at the devastating…