The Edwards Middle School held a graduation ceremony in Eden Street Park on June 17 that signified the end of the school’s 89-year history as the Clarence Edwards Middle School – a moment that was bittersweet for the 121 eighth-graders…
Author: Seth Daniel
Home at Last: Missing Bunker Hill Monument Guest Book Returned
The main investor in the Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment (BHHR) project, David Rubenstein, returned three prized missing guest books during the Battle of Bunker Hill Exercises ceremony on June 17 – having a representative return the books in grand fashion…
Resilient Remedies Gets Cannabis License
A second cannabis retail shop has received approval from the Boston Cannabis Board (BCB) to operate on Cambridge Street in the Sullivan Square area, with Resilient Remedies (R2) getting a unanimous vote from the Board on June 16. The matter…
Councilor Edwards Wins Game of Political Chess With City Council Rule Change
Some of the most interesting things in political circles and in Council business aren’t always on the agenda. Case in point: The rule change proffered and passed by Councilor Lydia Edwards during the June 16 City Council that essentially allows…
Large Crowd of Navy Yard Residents Lend Support to Save Pier 5 Effort
A large and organized crowd gathered on the Flagship Wharf patio on the evening of June 16 to display their growing opposition to development of any kind on Pier 5, and to push for federal funding to restore the pier…
Time to Gather: BHMA Annual Meeting Brings Call for Cataloging of Artifacts
For more years than anyone’s been alive, the Bunker Hill Monument Association (BHMA) has held its annual luncheon meeting on June 17 right after the official exercises commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill, and typically they are pretty tame business.…
Teen Ryan Williams and Family Calling for Help
Turn It Around teen Ryan Williams was set to graduate Charlestown High School next week on June 21, and it was a day he had been looking forward to for years – so much so that he gifted himself a…
Food Industry Veterans Look to Take Pasta, Sauce, and Wine on the Go
Two veteran chefs in the restaurant industry are looking to take things on the run in Charlestown, petitioning the License Board to allow them to open a take-out only pasta, sauce, beer and wine store in the old dry cleaning…
Gardens for Charlestown Resumes Garden Tour Saturday
Gardens for Charlestown will host their bi-annual Garden Tour this Saturday, June 19, after a monumental coordinating effort that took some risks in assuming such an event could even happen. President Chris Schiavone said he was very proud of some…
Unofficial Bunker Hill Was a Marvelous Comeback
It seems like an eternity ago when virtually every day for two weeks had some sort of activity going on for Charlestown Pride Week and all in anticipation of the big Battle of Bunker Hill Day Parade that came the…