House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo announced a new initiative to invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to help communities across Massachusetts adopt technologies – including clean energy, energy efficiency, and climate change resiliency measures – that cut greenhouse…
Author: Beacon Hill Times Staff
Mayor Announces Proposals for the Development of Community Gardens
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) from the City of Boston Grassroots program, which supports the development of community gardens. Winning proposals must demonstrate how it will improve neighborhood open spaces, create new open space…
Conversations with Caregivers: An Education Series The Dementia Caregiver Support Program of the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine is sponsoring our next seminar on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 from 5:30 -7:00 p.m. at Mass General in the…
Police Briefs 02-28-2019
Beacon Hill Beat Larceny 02/11/19 – A Beacon Street restaurant reported two known employees were involved in stealing a payroll bank deposit from the restaurant at about 12:14 p.m. The owner provided the video footage of the incident. Larceny from…
Massachusetts Greenworks Is an Investment in Our Present — and Future
The announcement last week by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo that the state will be investing $1 billion over the next decade to help communities across Massachusetts adopt technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fortify infrastructure is welcome news…
Beacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner
Street sweeping is approaching! The Street Cleaning Program on Beacon Hill kicks off March 1 and will run until Dec. 31. Along with street sweeping come tow trucks for those unfortunate few who forget to check the posted street signs…
West End Civic Association Winter Meeting Set for Feb. 21
Please join the West End Civic Association on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. for its winter meeting held at Amy Lowell Community Room, 65 Martha Road The doors open at 6:45 p.m. State Rep. Jay Livingstone and Boston City…
Neighborhood Roundup
King’s Chapel’s Tuesday Recitals King’s Chapel, 58 Tremont St., presents its Tuesday Recitals. Admission is by suggested donation of $5 per person; the donations are given to the performing musicians. Programs begin at 12:15 p.m. and last approximately 35 minutes;…
Traffic, Traffic Everywhere
A recent national report confirmed what those of us in the Greater Boston area have known all-too-well for all-too-long: That by some measures, traffic congestion on our metropolitan roadways is the worst in the entire nation and among the worst…
Letters to the Editor
Verizon erects cell towers on Revere Street Dear Editor I thought Beacon Hill Times might be interested in this photo taken from the sixth floor of the River House about the installation by Verizon of cell towers on 112 Revere…