Halloween will have one great big treat this year, and it’s not chocolate or sugar, but it’s still sweet. The colossal Halloween celebration this year will make a return to the fully-renovated Training Field after having been displaced for one…
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Charlestown’s Best Dressed Launches Personal Styling Service
By Marianne Salza When a woman slips on that perfect dress, she exudes boldness. Her posture is poised, her smile glows, and her wrists jingle with metallic bangles. It is the radiant expression that Best Dressed Co-Owner Nikoleta Lirantonakis loves…
New Development Plans Unveiled at Assembly Row
By Seth Daniel As several developments in Assembly Row are now up and running, and others have just completed their steel skeletons, all of which are quite visible from Charlestown and of great concern here due to unresolved transportation plans,…
Wynn Boston Harbor Tears Through Slurry Wall Construction
By Seth Daniel The slurry wall foundation that supports a majority of the Wynn Boston Harbor building is nearly completed, more than a month ahead of schedule, and work crews are in the process this week of digging out the…
Refugee Exhibit Now Going on at Long Wharf
Most Americans do not know what it is like to have to leave your home, your neighborhood and your country and undertake a perilous journey that you do not know what awaits you if you are lucky enough to survive…
BTD Meeting to Focus on Underpass Issue on Rutherford Ave
By Seth Daniel In every major issue, there is a moment when it’s time to get down to brass tacks. With the Sullivan Square and Rutherford Avenue traffic planning process – which was reignited last summer after so much major…
Bingo Winner
Mary Dewey was a big winner at Community Bingo on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Zelma Lacey House. The event brought several folks from the Lacey and the Golden Age Center together for 10-fun-filled games.
John Harvard Mall Opens to Excited Neighborhood, Celebration Sunday
By Seth Daniel It wasn’t but a few hours after the fences came down on the upper portion of John Harvard Mall last Tuesday, Oct 4, that kids made a B-Line to the new playground with their bicycles, and adults…
Liquor Licenses Show Win, Loss for Main Street Establishments
By Seth Daniel In the liquor license bingo that played out at City Hall last week, one Charlestown establishment scored a diagonal win while another went home empty handed. Paolo’s Trattoria gained a full alcohol restaurant license from the Boston…
Friends of Doherty Park Get Funding for Fountain Restoration
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced on Oct. 6 the recipients of the Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund Grants. Pending the approval of the Boston City Council, a total of $856,257 will be distributed among eight projects, designed to enhance and…