Mark your calendars and prepare to join the Boston Parks and Recreation Department to celebrate the holiday season with their 2022 schedule of lighting celebrations in City of Boston parks. Lighting of the Trellis at Christopher Columbus Park Monday, November…
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Your Local Post Office Will be Closed in Recognition of Veterans Day Post offices across the commonwealth will be closed on Friday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day. There will be no street delivery, except for guaranteed overnight parcels,…
Neighborhood Roundup
Rep. Livingstone’s Upcoming Office Hours Rep. Jay Livingstone will hold office hours on Wednesday, Oct 26, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the West End Branch Library at 151 Cambridge St.; on Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 10-11 a.m. at Cobblestone a Beacon…
Halloween Around Beacon Hill
MGH Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art Clinical Care Building
Special to Times Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) broke ground Thursday, Oct. 27, on a multi-year construction project for a new, state-of-the-art clinical care facility along Cambridge Street, enabling MGH to address ongoing growth of services and the need for increased…
Fall-O-Ween Festival
Meeting Held on Proposed Branch Library Redevelopment
On the heels of releasing draft development objectives for the project, the city sponsored another meeting virtually on Wednesday, Oct. 25, to discuss the proposed redevelopment of the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library, which would include an…
Suffolk County Sheriff Tompkins Named ‘Employer of the Year’
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins was named “Employer of the Year” by the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE). Reacting to the unexpected honor of becoming the first-ever recipient of the award, Sheriff Tompkins expressed his appreciation for both…
Customers Encouraged To Enroll in Payment Assistance Programs With National Grid
Special to the Times-Free Press National Grid is urging customers facing rising winter energy bills to consider company-offered programs that can spread bills across several months and explore payment assistance programs offered by state and federal agencies and regional non-profits.…
New Waste-Disposal Ban Regulations Take Effect
The Baker-Polito Administration on November 1 announced that new waste ban regulations that promote recycling and re-use, reduce trash disposal, and foster recycling business growth take effect starting November 1. The new regulations will ban the disposal of mattresses and…