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Blazers & Baubles May 31, 2012 Event Website Goes Live; Tickets Available
The event website is now live for the May 31, 2012 Blazers & Baubles benefit for the Zack Heger Foundation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The waterfront cocktail party will be hosted by WCVB’s Bianca de la Garza at the Fairmont Battery Wharf. More details and information on ticket purchases can be found at www.blazersandbaubles.com.
Introducing New Logo For North End Waterfront.com
NorthEndWaterfront.com has a real logo, finally! Coming up on the site’s third anniversary and exactly one month since introducing the new magazine grid format, I am very pleased to share the final design that is emblematic of our core mission. The logo bridges the local history of citizen journalism and the modern era of blogging, [...]
A Good Working Relationship – The Feeling Is Mutual
I always look forward to picking up my copy of the North End Regional Review every Tuesday and was honored to see this heartfelt commentary from longtime neighborhood reporter, Phil Orlandella. I agree with Phil that the Regional and NorthEndWaterfront.com complement each other in bringing timely information to the community. Recently, I was interviewed by [...]
Editor’s Note: “Real Name” Comments Policy
NorthEndWaterfront.com now requires commenters to use their real name, first and last. The full policy is posted here and available under the “About” menu. You will also find a link to the policy above the comment box at the end of each post. Comments submitted without real first AND last names will not appear on [...]
North End is the Heart of Boozeton Per Bostonography Liquor License Maps
If liquor is the lifeblood, then the North End would be the heart of Boston as graphically shown by the map-making geniuses at Bostonography.com. Using liquor license data compiled by the Boston Business Journal, Bostonography’s Tim Wallace created a density heat map of Boston and surrounding areas, entitled Boozeton, Massachusetts. The Boston liquor license density [...]
Poll Results on North End Waterfront.com New Style – Love, Like & Hate
Almost 70% of the web poll voters “Love” or “Like” the new NorthEndWaterfront.com website style. Cool. And then, there is the 30% that “Hate It,” which has me emotionally devastated. (Not really. It’s the internet. Change is hard. I get it.) Most folks like the magazine-style grid layout and the “wow” factor of the big [...]
NEWMA Group Featured in Downtown View Column
Founder and longtime publisher of the Beacon Hill Times, Karen Cord Taylor, turns her weekly column to the subject of digital groups that have formed in neighborhoods. Highlighted is the North End’s own NEWMA (North End / Waterfront Mothers Association) Google Group that currently has 645 members. The most active member and moderator is Jessica [...]
Journalist Bob Skole in Video Profile by North End Stories
Journalist and North End resident, Bob Skole, is profiled in the latest installment of the digital narrative project, North End Stories. Skole worked for The Italian News, having interviewed Tony Bennett and the Defense Secretary for the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Check out all the entries at www.NorthEndStories.com.
North End Waterfront.com – The New 2012 Website is Live!
The new North End Waterfront.com is live! After a very, very long weekend of coding, fine-tuning and too much espresso, the new website is up and running. Months went into the planning, but it gets to a point where you just have to take a leap and see what happens. Fortunately, it came together and [...]
Neighborhood Census View of the North End / Waterfront
The My Neighborhood Census Viewer was recently released by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, allowing the public to research data to the 2010 census block area. Using the viewer to create a rough area of the North End / Waterfront reveals the following: There are 11,753 residents in the North End / Waterfront. See the map [...]
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Editor’s Note: New Website Is Almost Ready To Go Live
The new style for NorthEndWaterfront.com is almost ready to go live! Today’s note is just to give you a heads up (and a sneak peak) that the site may be intermittently down for the next 24-48 hours until we go live this weekend. What’s the new site going to bring? It will have a professional, [...]
Citizens Connect Adds Online Chat Option To Report City Service Complaints
The City of Boston launched Citizens Connect Live, an online chat which allows constituents to contact the Mayor’s Hotline via the City of Boston website. Chat agents will initially be available during normal business hours, and may direct users to online services and answer questions regarding city services. Use the “LIVE – CHAT NOW” Button [...]
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There’s An App For The Freedom Trail
Freedom Trail Announces First Official Smartphone Application The Freedom Trail Foundation is making the leap from the 17th to the 21st century with the first official Freedom Trail smartphone and tablet application. Available for iOS and Android devices, the new Freedom Trail® app features 16 official historic sites of Boston’s Freedom Trail. The first of [...]
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North End Stories – A New Digital Narrative Project
Jeanne Dasaro of “North End Stories” presented at both NEWNC and NEWRA meetings this month to introduce her oral history project. North End Stories is a digital narrative that aims to collect, preserve, and share the stories of Italian-Americans whose families immigrated to Boston’s North End in the late 19th and early 20th century. Answering [...]
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BostonZest Selects Prosecco at The Wine Bottega
Our friends and fellow bloggers, Penny and Ed, at BostonZest.com come to the North End’s “The Wine Bottega” on Hanover Street. A North End search for life’s staples: bread, cheese, and…wine, led us to one of our favorite shops– The Wine Bottega. We asked owner Kerri Platt to help us find a special bottle that [...]
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Globe Site Asks Questions About the $2.9 Million Greenway Carousel
Boston.com’s Town Correspondent, Jeremy C. Fox, frames the debate regarding the proposed $2.9 million replacement carousel slated for the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. An interesting take in the article comes from the carousel community where the editor of Carousel News & Trader said: “the planners hadn’t consulted any carousel experts he’s spoken to and had [...]
“North End Project” Documentary Clips by Elaine McMillion
Elaine McMillion has posted some clips from a documentary, “North End Project.” The video above takes a “walk” through the neighborhood with links to various sites and interviews. One of the more in-depth interviews is shown below, “Phil & Tony.” More information about “North End Project” can be found at ElaineMcMillion.com.
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Pics in the Parks Photography Workshops Begin July 5, 2011
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS program is excited to host its 2nd annual Pics in the Parks free photography workshops in July and August. The workshops, held in a different park every Tuesday at 6 p.m., are open to people of all ages and skill levels who have a camera. Now in its [...]
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More Last Words on Sarah Palin’s Paul Revere
In the North End story that went national and lingers on (and on), there are two new pieces out. The first is from Old North Church Vicar Stephen T. Ayres in the Boston Herald. Rev. Ayres says he explained to Palin immediately before her now famous comments, “how Revere founded the church’s bell-ringing guild in [...]
NEWMA Updates Its Website, NEWMA.info
The North End / Waterfront parents group, known as NEWMA (North End / Waterfront Mothers Association) has updated their website, www.NEWMA.info. There are new playgroup and neighborhood resources as well as school and camp information. We are honored they are also embedding the NorthEndWaterfront.com calendar. NEWMA’s communication and email list remains active through the NEWMA [...]
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NorthEndBoston.com Updates Site and Features “Andie Day” and “Mercato del Mare”
NorthEndBoston.com’s Guild Nichols has re-tooled and launched his slick “new” site. Featured on the site are profiles of two neighborhood shops, “Andie Day” and “Mercato del Mare.” “Have you walked by the new offices of designer Andie Day on Hanover Street recently – just past the Fire Station? It’s a visual delight to behold. Either [...]
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Hanover Street Featured on WCVB TV 5′s Chronicle HD: Part 1 – History
WCVB TV 5’s Chronicle covers the past and present of Hanover Street in an episode that aired on May 10, 2011. The promo description for the piece: Boston’s Hanover Street: it’s North End nightlife, Hub history and unique characters all mixed together on one very intriguing thoroughfare. Tonight, Anthony Everett eavesdrops on the local gossip [...]
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North End Business, Where.com, Gets Bought by eBay for $135 million
It is not often that a North End business makes the pages of the Wall Street Journal, but that is what happened today for Where.com when the news emerged that eBay was acquiring the company for $135 million. Located on the third floor of 77 N. Washington St., Where builds location-based mobile apps for iPhones, [...]
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North End/Waterfront-Based Site, GlobalPost, Seeks Release for Reporter Detained in Libya
James Foley, a reporter for GlobalPost, is being detained in Libya with other foreign journalists by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. (Click image for Facebook page.)GlobalPost, an international news organization headquartered at The Pilot House, Lewis Wharf in the North End/Waterfront, has dispatched a recovery team to Libya’s border crossing with Tunisia to seek release [...]
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North End Population Totals 10,131 Per 2010 Census Neighborhood Zoning District Data
Please note: This post replaces a previous article that used rough census tracts where the numbers were muddied by a large Downtown tract that overlapped with part of the North End neighborhood. The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Research Division has published more refined neighborhood data for the North End zoning district as defined by the [...]
North End Community Health Center Celebrates 30 Years of Electronic Medical Records
by Marianne Aiello
Thirty years ago, physicians at the North End Community Health Center put down paper patient charts for good as the health center became the first in Massachusetts to begin using electronic medical records.
In 1981, the health center was chosen for a pilot program to adopt the then-new technology. No other community health center in the state was utilizing electronic medical records at that time.
“It was an exciting time because it was new, groundbreaking, and a pilot program,” says Diane Tanso, transportation supervisor at the health center.
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Poll Results: Harborwalk is Favorite Spot for Spring-Time Walk
This is not a scientific poll. Polls are offered for those readers interested in expressing an opinion. The results are representative only of those self-selected Internet users.This poll is now closed. A new poll is up and running in the right sidebar. Go there now and vote!
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Your Choice: Regular Comment Box or Facebook Comments
Important Update: After receiving reports that the Facebook comment box was not working for several people, I have disabled it. If I can figure out a fix, I will reintroduce it later. The regular comment system is working and available for use. I am introducing a new solution to bring the best of the [...]