The state’s June total unemployment rate is up eight-tenths of a percentage point at 17.4 percent following a revision to the May rate of 16.6 percent, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday. It is the highest unemployment…
Author: Beacon Hill Times Staff
Neighborhood Roundup
Virtual Lecture Looks back at Images from Women’s Suffrage Movement Join the Nichols House Museum and Professor Allison Lange for “Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement”- a virtual lecture on the visual history of women’s suffrage – on Wednesday, Aug. 5, from 6…
State Continues to Advance Solar Progress with Incentive Program Updates
The Baker-Polito Administration announced final updates to the Commonwealth’s Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program after filing emergency regulations in April. As a result of a robust stakeholder and public comment process, the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) implemented revisions…
ALKU Scholarship COVID-19 Relief Funds Are Now Available
ALKU, in partnership with Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP), has awarded additional relief funds to its ALKU Scholarship recipients to use towards their education. Recent events directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic have created new obstacles for students everywhere, but especially…
Change Military Base Names Immediately
If you’re like us, then it truly has been a revelation in these past few weeks to learn that U.S. military installations throughout the South were named in “honor” of Confederate heroes in the Civil War. Whenever we would hear…
A Depressing Thought – Summer Is Half Over
The summer of our discontent — the summer that hasn’t been — is just about half over. June has come and gone and we are just past the midway point of July, which means that there are only seven weekends…
Guest Op-Ed: How Many Friends do you have?
By Dr. Glenn Mollette How many friends do you have? Thousands? If you are on Facebook you may have close to 5000 friends and tens of thousands of more “friends” via Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or various other social media connections.…
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. Streets & Sidewalks Committee The Streets…
Beacon Hill Architectural Commission
The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission will hold a public hearing on July 16 at 5:00 p.m. in a Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81061136686 Subject of the hearing will be applications for Certificates of Design Approval on the agenda below, reviews of architectural…
Police Briefs 07-16-2020
Beacon Hill Beat Breaking and Entering – Motor Vehicle 07/06/20 – A victim reports he parked his 2008 Honda Civic at Boylston and Charles streets at around 12:20 a.m., but when he returned about a half hour later, he…