The unprecedented leak to Politico Monday that five Supreme Court Justices may be gearing up to reverse the court’s landmark decision that has protected a woman’s right to choose for a half century has set off a firestorm of condemnations…
Lydia Edwards Says Farewell to the Boston City Council
Last Wednesday Sen. Lydia Edwards delivered her final speech inside the Boston City Council Chambers after a five year tenure representing District 1, which includes East Boston, Charlestown and the North End. Edwards’s time on the Council officially came to…
North Washington Street Bridge Construction Look-Ahead to May 14
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. Traffic Signal Work…
Alcohol Is Still #1
Americans have been dying prematurely at unprecedented levels in the past two years from a number of causes. COVID-19 has taken away almost one million of our fellow Americans, with the number still rising daily for the foreseeable future. Fatal…
Is Nuclear War Inevitable in Ukraine — and Beyond?
We don’t want to sound like alarmists, but in our opinion, the escalation both in military weaponry and rhetoric by the Western powers and the Kremlin is bringing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear warfare in Ukraine.…
Guest Op-Ed: Let Us Never Forget Our Solemn Pledge
By Joseph Reagan On Memorial Day, 1945, the war in Europe had ended but the fighting in the Pacific continued, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott voiced remarks at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno, Italy. Turning his back on the assembled…
Letters to the Editor
Friends of City Square Park Concert Dates To the Editor, Friends of City Square Park are looking forward to a wonderful summer with the following four concert dates; June 15, July 13, August 10 and Sept TBD. The Friends are…
Obituaries 05-05-2022
Steven DiPrima Boston Police Department Administrative Clerk Steven M. DiPrima (Boston Police Department), a 26 year resident of East Boston and formerly of Charlestown, entered into eternal life on Sunday, May 1 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston following a…
Earth Day Festival
BPDA Approves 420 Rutherford Ave for Office Lab Space
At its April board meeting the Boston Planning and Development Agency approved plans to transform the existing site at 420 Rutherford Avenue into a 101,500 square-foot office and lab building. Related Beal, known for their developments at The Clarendon, One…
COVID Positive Test-Rate Continues to Climb
Charlestown and the city are in the middle of another COVID surge as nearly 1 out of every 10 residents tested last week in the neighborhood were positive. Health experts are saying the new subvariant of the omicron strain, known…
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston Presents ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder with Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak and Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman triumphantly finds its way to the Lyric Stage Company of Boston after originally scheduled to open on May…