Myrtle Street Playground was robbed just before Christmas. In an effort to raise funds to replace the playground toys and/or provide funds for summer programming, there will be a toy and book sale on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m.…
Month: March 2019
Two Kitchens and Two Eras of Entertaining
Historic home featured on Beacon Hill Village Kitchen Tour It is not surprising that plenty of space was allocated to the preparation of food and drink in the grand townhouses built in the early 1800s by Harrison Gray Otis, a…
ZBA Approves West End Marijuana Shop
An adult use marijuana facility proposed for Friend Street in Boston’s West End was approved by the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA). Ascend Mass Inc., who is proposing a retail marijuana shop at 272 Friend St. received its Conditional…
Neighborhood Roundup
Friends of the Public Garden annual meeting The Friends of the Public Garden will hold its 49th annual meeting on Thursday, March 28, on 5:30 p.m. in the Alcott Room of the Omni Parker House Hotel at 60 School St.…
Police Briefs 03-28-2019
Larceny – Pickpocket 03/11/19 – A victim reported she was walking through the Public Garden on Charles Street side at about 1:15 p.m. while texting on her iPhone, when an unknown male suspect approached her from behind and grabbed her…
Guest Op-ed Beware of Scams Coming over the Telephone
By Glenn Mollette In January a Denver couple received a scam phone call from a man who told them he had kidnapped their daughter. The man was very convincing that their daughter was in his possession. In the background they…
Legalized Marijuana: A Few Observations
We recently attended an event at an area Senior Center for an informational presentation on marijuana, which now is legal for recreational use in Massachusetts (as well as in 10 other states across the country). The room that initially was…
Another Sign of Climate Change
“Historically catastrophic” flooding is the description of what has been happening across our nation’s Midwestern Plains states this past week, thanks to a combination of heavy snows and unseasonably cold weather followed by unusually heavy rains. When most of us…
Esplanade Assoc. Holds Marathon Fundraiser
Runners Charlie Jacob, Stephanie Sguigna (of Beacon Hill) Matt DiSorbo, Kara Brennan (of the Back Bay), Ellen Barrett (of the North End), and Ashley Perkins (of the South End), during Esplanade Association’s Marathon Team Fundraiser on Saturday night, March 9,…
Beacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Beacon Hill Civic Association hosts Public Meeting with MGH Over sixty neighbors attended last week’s public meeting at the BHCA to discuss the planned expansion of MGH on Cambridge Street. Representatives of MGH included Sally Mason Boemer, Senior VP of…