The City Council Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on Aug. 2 regarding the Payment in Lieu of Tax (PILOT) program. Through this program, which is in its seventh year as of fiscal year 2018, schools, hospitals, and…
Month: August 2018
Community Preservation Act Staff to Hold Charlestown Meeting
The Community Preservation Act (CPA) staff members will return to Charlestown for a second meeting aimed at generating more applications for the millions of dollars in funding available from the new community chest. The first round of funding came out…
Progressive Massachusetts Endorses Pressley for Congress
Progressive Massachusetts, a statewide grassroots organization aimed at organizing voters around progressive issues, today endorsed Ayanna Pressley for Congress. Founded in 2013, Progressive Massachusetts has twenty chapters across Massachusetts, including five chapters in the 7th Congressional District. “Given the reactionary…
Ronald McDonald House Celebrates One-Year Anniversary in the Navy Yard
When Charlestown resident and Director Ellen Simmons first began her leadership of the Ronald McDonald House on Boston Harbor, she knew it was going to be both challenging and rewarding. Challenges like: dealing with the misperception that McDonald’s is their…
Stay Away! Beacham, Robin, and Dexter in Everett to Basically Shut Down Through October
Facing a do-or-die situation for the completion of major off-site roadwork this summer, and a slower-than-expected work schedule on an Eversource project, Encore Boston Harbor and the City of Everett have announced that the areas of Beacham, Dexter and Robin…
St John’s Episcopal Donates Two Antique Fire Extinguishers to Boston Fire Museum
St. John’s Episcopal Church in Charlestown on Thursday, July 26, donated two vintage fire extinguishers to the Boston Fire Museum. The church recently upgraded their fire extinguishers and rather than discarding the two obsolete, vintage copper/brass extinguishers, they were offered to…
Ultimate Frisbee Hits Charlestown in One-Day Clinic for Superteens
Few know that Boston is a mecca for Ultimate Frisbee, but those in the city who ascribe to the values of the sport and the fun of its competition have long been trying to grow the past time with kids…
Police Briefs 08-09-2018
Charlestown Beat Aggravated Assault 08/01/2018 – Officers responded to Bunker Hill Street for a report of a person stabbed. Upon arrival, police observed the victim being treated for a stab wound to the back. The victim was unable to give…
Townie Tidbits
CASTLE ISLAND BREWING TAKES BEER GARDEN TO CHARLESTOWN Castle Island Brewing Company has now opened a beer garden, which will run through the end of the summer over at Constitution Wharf in Charlestown. It had previously planned to open the…
Want Better Business? Invest in Public Transit
Earlier this year, an Amazon executive called officials in Detroit to explain why the city had fallen out of contention for the retail giant’s new headquarters. The main reason? The lack of investment in Detroit’s regional public transit. The city…