The recent increase in mass shooting incidents across the country comes as no surprise to anyone with an ounce of common-sense. The ease of purchase, and relatively low-cost, of assault-style weapons, particularly AR-15 semi-automatics with large-capacity magazines, makes it possible…
At Long Last, Charlestown’s Basketball Legend Gets Her Day
Standing in the Charlestown High School gym, Charlestown’s Patty Suprey could almost hear the sound of the wall-to-wall crowd on that January night in 1980. She could put her feet on the free throw line where she stood and shot…
Two School Committee Members Resign After Racially Charged Texts Come to Light
Two Boston School Committee members, including Chair Alexandra Oliver-Davila, have resigned this week suddenly amidst the unexpected release of text messages that were disparaging to white people – particularly to white parents from West Roxbury. Chair Oliver-Davila resigned on Tuesday,…
Bunker Hill Monument Association Schedules Official Ceremony for June 17
Monument Association President Arthur Hurley reported that while the Battle of Bunker Hill Day Parade has been postponed this year, the official exercises commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17 are planned to take place as usual. The…
Bunker Hill Associates Announce Mega Raffle to Fund Community Grants
By now, the Bunker Hill Associates would be head-on into Charlestown Pride Week with Peter Looney Night, the CHAD March and lively Bunker Hill Family Feud events underway or on the way, but for the second year in row, COVID-19…
General Warren Toast a Fun Tradition That Continues
It was about 10 years ago when State Rep. Dan Ryan, who was still tending bar at the Warren Tavern, struck up a conversation with Tom Coots – of the Charlestown Militia – on the birthday of General Joseph Warren.…
Bunker Hill or Bust to Feature Fun, Dining and Automobile Parade
The last time the Charlestown Militia marched up and down Bunker Hill Street for the annual parade was on a rainy Sunday, June 16, in 2019. It seems almost impossible that two years would have come and gone without the…
New Book by Local Author Cuts Through the ‘Fog’ of War
There’s no shortage of new revelations for the die-hard Battle of Bunker Hill enthusiast in a new book by Marc Stockwell-Moniz, including an updated death count and some insight into just how crazy – or foggy – the whole battle…
Bunker Hill Associates Announce 2021 Mega Raffle to Fund Community Grants
By now, the Bunker Hill Associates would be head-on into Charlestown Pride Week with Peter Looney Night, the CHAD March and lively Bunker Hill Family Feud events underway or on the way, but for the second year in row, COVID-19…
BPDA Proposes to Hire Consultant for PLAN Charlestown
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) is petitioning its Board at the meeting on Thursday, June 10, to hire a consultant to assist in the preparation of the planning study for PLAN Charlestown. In a memo to the Board,…
Councilor Edwards Enjoys Political Win in Advancing Structural Change for City Budgeting
Several observers and prognosticators of Boston City politics are giving a tip of the hat to the astute political path Councilor Lydia Edwards walked over the past year in getting her Charter Amendment for radical change in City budgeting past…
Charlestown COVID Update Listed
Charlestown’s COVID-19 positive test rate remains below 1 percent according to the latest data released last Friday by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). According to the latest BPHC report, last week 336 residents were tested and 0.07 percent were…