The red glow of the Nantucket Light Ship – now docked in East Boston indefinitely – can be seen as a red dot on the other side of the Harbor from Charlestown, but it’s potentially sad story is resonating on…
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Leadership Scholarship Awards Six Seniors, Brings in New Crop
They had been so small, but they returned all grown up. Six high school seniors that once walked the halls of the Harvard-Kent School and received the Leadership Scholarship Award when they were much younger, much smaller students, at the…
Armstrong is Ready to Entertain This Saturday for St. John’s
When accomplished Soprano Nancy Armstrong moved to Charlestown, it was because of how easy it was to park. That should give a hint to just how long the talented early music singer has called the neighborhood home. “I lived in…
Engine 50 Firehouse Rehab Set
The country’s oldest public firehouse will get major overhaul over the next five years with money that has been earmarked in the city budget. The Engine 50 Firehouse at 34 Winthrop St. in Charlestown will receive a $3.5 million investment…
Gloss to Speak at CHS
Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the Brattle book Shop and a regular on Antiques Road Show will be giving a talk at the Charlestown Historical Society on Tuesday May 12 at 7:00PM, at the Bunker Hill Museum, 43 Monument Square. Gloss…
Residents Turnout for Parking Meeting
Some 35 Charlestown residents showed up on Monday night, May 6, for a community meeting to explore changing the resident parking program in the neighborhood. Erin Woods and Shannon Fabiano-McLaughlin have been leading the beginnings of an effort to make…
Charlestown Garden Tour on June 13
Explore twelve private hidden gardens of historic Charlestown on Sat. June 13, 2015 from 10:00-3:00. This year’s tour boasts a wide variety of horticulture and landscape features from fruit trees to cobble walkways and the garden at the PBS “This…
Armstrong to Perform at St. John’s Church
Soprano Nancy Armstrong will perform selections from the American Song Book at a celebratory concert on Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 pm at St. John’s Church. The concert will include works by Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, and others. Donations are welcome,…
Charlestown Oyster Project Still Holds Hope for Getting Started
Charlestown resident Andrew Jay recalls reading in history books about a time in the distant past when the streets of downtown Boston were covered in oyster shells; when boats going up or down the Mystic River past Charlestown had to…
Running for Ryan Morrissey
Boston Police Runners Club Run Boston Marathon in Memory of Ryan Morrissey: On Friday, April 17, Commissioner William Evans, members of the Boston Police Runners Club, representatives from the Boys & Girls Club of Charlestown, representatives from Operation Progress Boston…