Category: Editorials

Enjoy the Holiday Season

This is a wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories — even for the younger set — of Christmases-past. We choose…

Townie Tidbits

REMEMBERING THE COMBAT ZONE Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in Roxbury and the South End, I often walked into Downtown or when my friends  and I were lazy, we would take the Kneeland Street bus. We would cross…

Letters to the Editor

SAY BYEBYE TO PIER 5 Dear Editor,  “Say Bye-bye to Pier 5, Other News and Notes,” compelled me to weigh in on the idea of preserving the precious trees that are planted to balance the very close proximity of so…

Letter to the Editor

Thank You To the Editor: Those of us that gathered over 650 plus signatures asking the Zoning Commission to keep the present height restriction at the Hood Plant, want to thank the Charlestown Community for your support. We were quite…

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, tracing its roots back almost 400 years to the Pilgrims, long before there was even a thought of a United States of America. Thanksgiving is the ultimate family-centered holiday. It has no national-celebration connotations,…

Letter to the Editor

COMMENTING ON CONSTRUCTION Dear Editor: It’s hard to ignore the two letters to the editor last week, one from Ann Kelleher and the other from Kevin Kelly. As another person who loves Charlestown, I am grateful they took the time and…