The Baker-Polito Administration announced the launch of MassGrown Exchange, an online platform designed to facilitate business-to-business connections within the local food system for products and services. The platform was developed following recommendations from the Administration’s Food Security Task Force, which promotes ongoing…
Author: Beacon Hill Times Staff
MassDevelopment Announces $310,000 Funding for Real Estate Technical Assistance
MassDevelopment is pleased to announce the availability of up to $310,000 in funding through its Real Estate Technical Assistance program. Through a combination of in-house expertise and contracts with consultants, under this program MassDevelopment works with municipal officials, planners, local…
Police Briefs 08-13-2020
Beacon Hill Beat Breaking and Entering – Motor Vehicle 08/07/20 – A male suspect was arrested on Bowdoin Street for breaking and entering into a 2013 Chrysler Town and Country van at around 2:53 a.m. At this time, the suspect…
America Is Circling The Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated…
Car Repossessions are on the Rise
Although most of the attention of the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the evictions and foreclosures facing millions of out-of-work Americans, the number of repossessions of motor vehicles because of loan defaults is starting…
Letter to the Editor
Limit Large Vehicles in Neighborhood To the Editor, Following the damage caused by a truck operated by a Rhode Island company, on July 22 (and referenced on the front page of the July 30 edition of The Beacon Hill Times),…
Beacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Beacon Hill Civic Association Committees Every spring, the Beacon Hill Civic Association publishes its Annual Report covering committee accomplishments during the past year. We’ll be sharing the committees’ reports here over the next weeks. Traffic & Parking Committee During the…
AFT Massachusetts Calls for Remote Start to School This Fall
On Friday, the American Federation of Teachers (ATF) Massachusetts Executive Board, made up of elected representatives of the 23,000 AFT members statewide, voted to call for a remote start to school this fall, citing the rising levels of COVID-19 transmission…
Neighborhood Roundup
Sign-Ups for Back-to-School Giveaway Now Underway The Salvation Army is teaming up with Garden Neighborhood Charities—the philanthropic arm of the TD Garden—and the City of Boston to host its Ninth Annual Back-to-School Giveaway, with sign-ups now underway. Registration is first-come-first-served and based on financial need. To be…
Waiting for the Big One
As we are writing this, we are awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is the earliest-ever ninth named storm of a hurricane season. Although Isaias was a weak Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in the Carolinas and…