Category: News
Harvard-Kent Wins Prestigious EdVestor Prize
For the past 13 years EdVestors, a school improvement organization in Boston, has awarded its $100,000 Thomas W. Payzant School on the Move Prize to recognize rapidly improving schools that have made exemplary progress in advancing the academic achievement of…
City At-Large Election Too Close to Call on Final Seat: Councilor Edwards Gets Good Vote Though Unopposed
The City Election is Charlestown featured a slow day of voting, but any excitement absent during the day was made up for at midnight – when the final spot on the at-large ballot became contested between candidates Julia Mejia of…
Stub Ramp: Partially Constructed On-Ramp to 93 North Could Be Built
Most in Charlestown know it as the “stub.” It’s come up so many times in meetings over the last 15 years that it has its own nickname that most in Town actually recognize. For all those years, it was just…
Bunker Hill Re-Development Meeting Scheduled for Nov. 20
By Seth Daniel The next meeting for the Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment plan will take place on Weds., Nov. 20, in the Harvard-Kent School. The long-discussed development is now being championed by Leggat McCall and the Corcoran Companies. Leggat was…
CNC Community Corner
Note change in date and location – The monthly meeting of the Charlestown Neighborhood Council will be held on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Police Station in Hayes Square at 7 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend.
Organizers Looking for More Survey Responses in Plan Charlestown
A survey from the 02129 Neighbor Alliance is available now and organizers of the effort said they are really pushing to get the maximum number of responses before the City’s planning process starts in January. The survey is part of…
House and Senate Pass Historic Overhaul to Education Funding Formula
For the past year teachers and school leaders have been actively lobbying the state legislature and governor to begin taking steps to overhaul the state’s education funding formula to ensure equity for all students, especially those in low-income areas. Because…
Japanese Townie Served Valiantly, Wounded Twice, in World War II
The story of Kinzo Hamano is a very curious one on its own – he being one of the few Townies from the old days who was a native of Japan, but spoke with the Irish brogue so common in…
Tatte Bakery Gets Mix of Support, Opposition at Abutters’ Meeting
A large crowd was on hand Monday night in the American Legion Post on Adams Street to hear the plans for the Tatte Bakery local chain to occupy the ground floor of the refurbished and expanded 40 Warren St. office…