The West Roxbury firehouse’s plan to hold a cookout following a memorial service for fallen firefighters Paul Cahill and Warren Payne has been called off by Chief Kevin MacCurtain.
Captain Gerald Hogan and the firefighters of Engine 30 and Ladder 25 still plan on marking the one-year anniversary of the Tai Ho fire by unveiling a pair of plaques memorializing Cahill and Payne. [read more]
In response to neighborhood complaints, a new city ordinance could impose guidelines for donation boxes.
Dana Forsythe 28.AUG.08
Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo this week filed a hearing to discuss possible new regulations on non-profit and for-profit collection boxes throughout the city.
Donation collection bins, placed for the public as a place for people to drop off articles of clothing and/or other household items, are ubiquitous throughout Boston. Many can often be seen stuffed with bags of clothes and laden with broken furniture.
In Hyde Park, residents in Fairmount Hill have long complained about a particular collection box just off Truman Highway.
Neighbors say they are concerned about a Planet Aid collection bin on the corner of the U-Haul property. Although many have acknowledged that the company does pick it up regularly, some neighbors have seen the bin choked with goods and surrounded by furniture. [read more]
Mayor Thomas Menino and City Councilor Rob Consalvo were among the officials who helped open the newly expanded Roosevelt School this past weekend. Photo by Judith Ouellette
Dana Forsythe 28.AUG.08
On Sunday, the Roosevelt School celebrated its expansion to a K-8 program and the opening of a Hemenway Campus in Readville.
At the end of last year, the Boston School Committee approved the expansion of the Roosevelt Elementary School in Hyde Park into a two-campus K-8 school using the former Hemenway School building. In July, the Hemenway was completely renovated to accommodate six classrooms, a cafeteria and a multi-purpose indoor play space.) [read more]
The Archival Department South Boston Historical Society (SBHS) wants your stories.
Specifically, they’re seeking stories from men and women who lived in the South Boston neighborhood during the World War II years.
Ed Oliver-Bohld, the SBHS’s archivist said that a lot is known about the sacrifice of "The Greatest Generation’s" military men, but less is known about the sacrifices of those who stayed behind. [read more]
Tim Cherry's sculpture, 'Garden's Edge,' was taken from the Forest Hills Cemetery last week.
Dana Forsythe 21.AUG.08
Last week thieves struck the Forest Hills Cemetery, looting several metal sculptures from their perches along the Contemporary Sculpture Path, a nationally renowned walking trail featuring more than 30 works.
Forest Hills Cemetery President and Chief Executive George Milley said that looting has never been a problem in the cemetery before, but attributes the stolen art to people looking to make a quick buck on the metal. [read more]
Samuel Tyler, President, Boston Municipal Research Bureau
21.AUG.08
In order to keep the city in check, there are a number of organizations set up to act as watchdogs to balance political business and residential interests in the city.
The Boston Municipal Research Bureau is one of the only independent watchdogs in the city that looks out for residents’ interest as well as promoting a strong business climate throughout the City of Boston. [read more]
Bea Lingley in front of one of the numerous pot holes holding standing water
Scott Wachtler 21.AUG.08
Jamaica Plain is the latest Boston neighborhood to test positive for West Nile Virus. The Boston Public Health Commission reported last week that the virus was found in a red-tailed hawk.
Mosquitoes infected with WNV have already been found in West Roxbury, Boston Harbor Islands, Charlestown and the town of Brookline. [read more]
Franklin Chang-Diaz, recognized as the first Latin American astronaut following his 1986 space shuttle mission, helps out his daughter’s campaigning efforts.
Joseph Mont 21.AUG.08
Anyone who may dismiss politics as "not rocket science" may want to consider one of the voices behind Sonia Chang-Diaz’s second bid for the State Senate’s Second Suffolk District.
Chang-Diaz, who captured nearly 44 percent of the vote through a "sticker" campaign last time around, has been receiving advice and support from her father, Franklin Chang-Diaz, recognized as the first Latin American astronaut following his 1986 space shuttle mission. [read more]
Members of the Red Sox volunteer program Lindos Suenos William Plaza, Carlos Comacho, Matt McCormick, Kenri Ferre, Joey Ortiz, Adrian Gonzalez, Reudy Espinosa, Justin Rodriquez, Anthony Nicholas, Luke Geoghegan, Rafeal Figuereo, Nico Rodriguez, Mike Aolano and Frankie Gonzalez pose with Red Sox player Julio Lugo.
Dana Forsythe 21.AUG.08
Area youth work to build baseball field
Now in its 5th year, the Lindos Sueños program, (which means "Beautiful Dreams" in Spanish), has always been about exposing teens to volunteer work and educating them on the benefit, personally and socially, of working to better their world.
In 2004, at the request of a baseball-loving mother and philanthropist, the Red Sox created a program where teens of various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds could come together through the common bonds of community service and baseball. [read more]
