It came down to unrelenting hope and a prayer for the Charlestown Girls Softball team to get on the diamond for summer ball. After holding out hope for the spring season to start in May, the league had to give…
Time for the New: Temporary Bridge Opens Smoothly; Demolition Starts for Old Structure
The temporary bridge replacing the old North Washington Street Bridge opened up last weekend without a hitch, paving the way for the demolition of the old bridge over the next several months. The former rickety bridge has now been replaced…
Mystic/Tobin Bridge Study to Look at Dedicated Bus Lane
Getting over the Mystic/Tobin Bridge by bus might become even faster if an upcoming study recommends to implement a dedicated bus lane on the bridge after construction work wraps up in 2021. On July 16, the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization…
COVID-19 Testing Now Available to All Charlestown Residents
NEW Health, a federally qualified health center and an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center, has opened its Charlestown COVID-19 testing site to all Charlestown and North End residents. The site first opened May 18 at 15 Tufts St. in the Bunker…
Police Staffing Costs Top $5 Million for Responses to Summer Protests
The additional costs for Boston Police staffing for the many protests that have unfolded in Boston – mostly in the downtown areas – since late May are close to $6 million over and above normal police staffing costs for this…
Lt. Michael Quinn Scholarship Raffle
With the COVID-19 pandemic postponing this year’s Lt. Michael Quinn Scholarship fundraising events (scholarship banquet, golf tourney, etc.), a $10,000 virtual raffle will be held to help raise funds for the 2021 award. Raffle tickets are $100 each and the…
Free Backpack Giveaway at TCC Charlestown Store Sunday
This Sunday, TCC – a subsidiary of Verizon Wireless, is donating 140,000 backpacks full of school supplies to children across the U.S. as a part of its 8th annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway. This year will mark more than one…
Artisan Paradise: Fine Plastering Work Finds a Home in Charlestown
Convenience and low cost rarely work out over the long term when it comes to renovating a home, and no one know that better than Colby Blauvelt of Trowel Inc. Plasterers – who has taken on his father’s business after…
DiDomenico Secures Over $135 Million in Funding for District Projects in Transportation Bond Bill
Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico and his colleagues in the Massachusetts State Senate passed a $17 billion transportation bond bill that will fund major transportation infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth in an effort to modernize, expand, and maintain our transportation…
New Housing Construction on Bunker Hill Street Going Full-Blast after COVID Shutdown
Just as the framing for the first floor of the housing project on Bunker Hill Street began in March, COVID-19 entered the scene and shut down the project – a well-received nine-unit housing construction across from St. Francis de Sales…
Second Youth-Led Discussion on Race and Policing Scheduled
Join Councilor Lydia Edwards and the Charlestown Coalition for a continued youth-led, healing conversation on race and policing with young adults from the Turn-It-Around program. The event will take place this Friday, July 24 at 1 p.m. at the Peace…
USS Bunker Hill Returns to San Diego
The guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) returned to San Diego, July 8, after a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Bunker Hill is part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a…