Re-Imagine the Open Spaces The Mystic River Watershed Association is working to re-imagine the open spaces around Little Mystic Channel in Charlestown. Stop by at their Open House, share your ideas, grab a donut, learn some Charlestown Trivia and found…
Progressives Are Trump’s New Best Friends
As our regular readers know, we have been fully supportive of everything that entails the Progressive agenda in Washington, from the Green New Deal to tax increases on the wealthy and everything in between. If anything, we’d like to see…
School Masking Is Not a Parental Matter
According to an interview in the Boston Globe, a member (who is a medical doctor) of the unpaid COVID-19 advisory panel to Gov. Charlie Baker made this statement regarding masking by children in public schools: “Regardless of science, and there…
Sober October: Now More Than Ever
We all know that the pandemic has not been great for either our physical or mental health. One of the strongest indicators of this is that overall alcohol consumption increased by 14 percent among Americans in 2020 and 23 percent…
Letters to the Editor
Good Bye Wow To the Editor, This month our Charlestown community will say goodbye to the successful Wind On Water (WOW) public art exhibit, closing a sixteen month exhibit that highlighted our extraordinary corner of the city in the Charlestown…
Hood Celebrates 175th Anniversary
MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center Welcomes Dr. Monteiro
Cheryl Monteiro, MD, recently joined the staff of the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center’s Adult Medicine Department. Dr. Monteiro grew up in New Jersey and went to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She moved to New England for her General Internal…
Charlestown High School Receives Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Grant
For a third year in a row Charlestown High School will be the beneficiary of a Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation grant. Last week the foundation announced its 2021 Relationship Grants, totaling $200,000 to nonprofit organizations that support educational programs in…
Plan Announced for 2070-Resilient Waterfront Development to Solve Urgent Sea-Level Rise Issues
Special to Times The Flatley Company has announced that the 21-acre site of the former Domino Sugar Refinery will be developed and transformed to reconnect to the Charlestown neighborhood and open up the waterfront to the public for the first…
Charlestown Sprouts Community Garden Received Grant
Charlestown Sprouts Community Garden received some good news last week when it was awarded a grant from Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources’ Urban Agriculture Program (MDAR). As part of Climate Week in Massachusetts, the Baker-Polito Administration announced over $2.9 million…
Sen. DiDomenico Speaks on the Floor of the Senate in Support of the Healthy Youth Act
On Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate voted to pass Senator Sal DiDomenico’s bill, An Act relative to healthy youth, (S.2534). This bill will ensure that Massachusetts public schools electing to teach sex education curriculum use age-appropriate, medically accurate, and research-based information that covers…
Michelle Wu Will Be First on the Mayoral Ballot in November
At the random drawing at City Hall Monday to determine the position of the Boston Mayoral Ballot, Michelle Wu’s name came out of the perforated bingo drum first and will appear on the top of the mayoral ballot in November…