By Seth Daniel As the New England Patriots get ready to host their first playoff game in Foxboro, one might think it’s the success of the city’s football team that makes Boston the best sports city in America. But according…
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Kraft Center for Community Health Mobilizes Care for Opioid Use Disorder
A new community outreach initiative spearheaded by The Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) seeks to better engage with individuals struggling with addiction and complex health conditions who are not well connected to health care services.…
Walsh Hopes to Create Something Special on Long Island for Recovery:Replacement of Bridge Projected to Take Several Years to Complete
By Seth Daniel The City’s administration is currently beginning to think about what a recovery campus on Long Island would look like, as the permitting and fighting over the Long Island Bridge replacement begins to start. In the wake of…
New Book Highlights Historic South End
By Beth Treffeisen On a rare warm, rainy night in January, members of the community packed into the South End Historical Society at 532 Massachusetts Avenue to hear Lauren Prescott, the executive director talk about her newly released book, “Boston’s…
Boston’s Museum of African American History Names Administrator for Inaugural Book Award
Pamela D. Waterman has been named Book Award Administrator for the inaugural Museum of African-American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award which will honor non-fiction literature that celebrates African American history and culture. The award, which includes a $25,000 prize, will…
Neighbors Get Look at Park Street School Proposal
By Dan Murphy The neighborhood got a look at the Park Street School’s plans to rehabilitate its main building on Brimmer Street and renovate and repurpose a two-story carriage house located directly across Chestnut Street at a Jan. 10 meting…
MFS Pro-Am Doubles Championship
The 27th Annual MFS Pro Am Doubles Championship was held last week at the University Club.The University Club Pro Doubles Committee included from left: Tom Poor,Greg Collins, Lenny Bernheimer, Amrit Kanwal, and Chris Spahr. Kanwal represneted MFS Investment Management who…
Get Your Shovel
A car is actually buried under the snow from Thursday’s snowstorm on Mt. Vernon St. Hopefully, the warmer temperatures this week should cause some melting.
Area A-1 sees 1-Percent Drop in Part One Crime in ‘17
By Dan Murphy Area A-1 saw a 1-percent drop in violent and property crime in 2017 from the previous year. According to Boston Police, 2,595 incidents of Part One crime were reported between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2017,…
Winthrop Square Tower Height Lowered
By Beth Treffeisen In a lengthy Draft Project Impact Report that was released on January 2, the developers behind the Winthrop Square Tower outlined their latest plans for redeveloping the abandoned parking garage at 115 Winthrop Square including a new…