This marks the tenth year that a consortium of affiliates from Partners HealthCare – MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center, MGH Institute of Health Professions, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital – have awarded the Charlestown Health Care Scholarship. Since the award’s inception, over…
Month: July 2019
Charlestown Hosts Impossible Dream Vessel for Summer Tour
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network once again sponsored the vessel the “Impossible Dream” to come to Charlestown as part of its East Coast Summer Tour. The Miami-based vessel is the world’s only purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible catamaran, making it completely accessible for persons with disabilities as…
Kids of Charlestown : Exhibit at Zume’s Coffee House Draws Excitement
Essem Art Studio (Charlestown Commerce Center) partnered with local hot spot Zume’s Coffee House and Savvy Sitter Boston to bring a community art experience to the kids of Charlestown. “It makes me smile just to see the joy in these…
Neighborhood Round Up
Bruins Academy – Learn-To-Play Hockey Program The Boston Bruins will again be bringing its Learn-to-Play Hockey program to Charlestown this fall. Charlestown Youth Hockey will be hosting and staffing the program. The program is available to boys and girls ages…
Unanimous Decision : Encore Delivers a Knockout With First Boxing Show
It didn’t take long for Encore Boston Harbor to establish itself as a major player in the New England boxing scene. A sell-out crowd of 2,300 fans enjoyed an action-packed show Friday night at the recently opened $2.6 billion resort…
Police Briefs 07-18-2019
Charlestown Beat Commercial Burglary 07/08/19 – A victim on Ninth Street reported unknown person(s) entered his construction site and removed a white 1995 Yamaha company golf cart with the American Express logo on its front. Possession of Burglarious Tools 07/09/19…
Yes, Drugs Are Bad, But Alcohol Is Still the Worst
We’ve all become aware of the opioid epidemic that has spread throughout the country in recent years and that has been responsible for about 60,000 premature deaths annually in the United States. The dangerous and deadly drug fentanyl, which often…
Residents, Officials Upset Over Late-Night ‘Revolution’ Rally
A late-night flash mob rally by about 20 members of a separatist group often associated with white supremacy movements staged an elaborate event last Saturday, July 6, at the Bunker Hill Monument that has residents and elected officials upset –…