Forty-nine new trees were recently parted along the Esplanade, courtesy of the Esplanade Association. As part of its L.E.A.F. (Lasting Esplanade Arbor Fund), the nonprofit’s three-person Horticulture Team planted myriad tree species or cultivars, 12 of which are new to…
Month: December 2020
Neighborhood Roundup
West End Museum Closed for Winter The West End Museum is closed through at least mid-February. “While closing for most of the winter is a challenging decision, we feel that doing so is our best option to serve the WEM community,…
Boston Public Schools Returns Some Students to In-Person Learning
Mayor Martin Walsh and Boston Public School Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius announced that approximately 1,700 students across 28 schools, including the Eliot School, returned to in-person learning on Monday. The students returning to school this week have complex disabilities and…
Police Briefs 12-17-2020
Beacon Hill Beat From Boston Police Area A-1 Larceny 12/09/20 – The suspects – two females and one male – were caught inside a Cambridge Street pharmacy stealing merchandise at around 5:50 p.m. The store clerk reported that the suspects…
The Virus Is in Our Homes
We now are fully amidst the holiday season. Hanukkah is here and the Christmas and New Year’s holiday week is fast-approaching. Public health officials at all levels of government have been warning us for months that we must change our…
Thank You, Gov. Baker
We’d like to take a moment to express our appreciation to Gov. Charlie Baker, who has demonstrated incredible leadership during the past nine months of a crisis that is unprecedented in our state’s history. Day-after-day, Gov. Baker has confronted a…
Remember the Needy
We saw a statistic the other day that was absolutely mind-numbing: 18% of all Americans, and 24% of American children, do not have enough to eat on a daily basis. We mention this because during this Christmas season, when many…
Guest Op-Ed: Disappointment in Expanded Abortion
By Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts The consistent teaching of the Catholic Church is that life begins at conception and ends with natural death. As the Roman Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts, we at all times hold firm to that teaching so…
BHCA Safe Holiday Stroll
Happenings on Charles Street: Upstairs Downstairs Makes a Rainy Day Bright
Special to Times Last Saturday, Dec. 5, it was disappointing for many Beacon Hill businesses and would-be holiday revelers to see the annual Holiday Stroll canceled due to pouring rain, but this did not dampen the spirits of Laura Cousineau…