OTHER INCIDENTS June 7 Charles River, Investigate Person 180 Charles St., Sick/Injured/Medical – Person 180 Cambridge St., Larceny in a Building, $200 & Over June 8 5 Grove St., Parking Violation 65 Beacon St., Harassing Phone Calls June 9 12 Chestnut St, Parking Violation 222 Cambridge St., Larceny in a Building, $50 to $199...
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Graphic Boomer Tell All Memoir – The Evening News with Walter Cronkite
The Evening News with Walter Cronkite evokes a time, the years 1967-1971, and the shift in ideals and experience through the closely observed eyes of Jack Krivitsky. He goes off to college in 1967 straddling two worlds: the upper middle class Jewish world where he’s grown up privileged on Boston’s North Shore, and is...
Lord Stanley, Meet Captain Chara
One of our photographers grabbed this historic shot Thursday morning of Boston Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara exiting the charter plane at Logan Airport while hoisting the Stanley Cup into the air. A small group of fans were there to cheer on the team as they arrived back in Boston just after 8:30 a.m. on...
Dorothy Weinstein (1908–2011)
By Sue Bridge Dorothy Weinstein died quietly at the age of 102 at her home at 48 Temple St., where she had lived for 58 years. Her two surviving sons, Arthur of Northridge, Calif., and Jordan of Arlington, her large extended family, many Beacon Hill neighbors and other well-wishers bid her farewell at services...
Roadwork Underway in Temple St. Area
Temple Street residents are facing extensive roadwork as Veolia Energy replaces expansion joints there and on Cambridge and Staniford streets, according to a spokesperson for the Cambridge firm. The company will replace four expansion joints in its steam pipes, which run from Cambridge Street to the Suffolk University’s Donahue Building through June 30. The work,...
Masked Gunman Robs Cambridge Trust Co. Twice in Past Month
-By Dan Murphy The Cambridge Trust Company at 65 Beacon St. was robbed by a masked gunman twice in the past month, police said. On June 2 at about 5 p.m., a male suspect, dressed in a mask and jumpsuit, entered the bank, brandished a handgun and demanded money. The suspect fled on Beacon...
The Rev. John Unni Sets a Wonderful Precedent
Father John Unni delivered a homily of historic proportion for a Catholic church in Boston at Sunday’s Mass at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Back Bay, The homily supported St. Cecilia’s gay and lesbian churchgoers as members of the much larger and more diverse congregation. Reverend Unni did not disappoint the men and women...
Congressman Anthony Weiner
New York Congressman Weiner has apparently checked himself into a rehab of some kind to give him counseling on how to better control himself from doing the kinds of things he has been doing. He has basically ruined his life and has shown himself to be damaged material. What he did is not normal....
Police Briefs 06-14-2011
Robbery – Bank 06/02/11 – A male suspect robbed a Beacon Street bank at gunpoint at around 5 p.m. The suspect fled the area with an undetermined amount of U.S. currency. Rape 06/05/11 – A female victim reported while walking on Cambridge Street at around 1:45 a.m., two male suspects grabbed her. At that...
From Nothing to Something – How BHV Made It Happen
By Karen Cord Taylor Entrepreneurship is trendy these days. It requires innovation. Everyone wants to be the person who takes an idea, gets it going, and comes out a winner. Downtown Boston has such a winner. Beacon Hill Village, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, serves 375 members 50 years or older who live...