The NEWRA Clean Streets meeting venue for next week is changing to the ABCD Center, 1 Michelangelo St. due to elections at the Nazzaro Center. Everything else remains the same – Tuesday, Sept 14th @ 7:00pm. Co-chairs Naomi Paul and Patricia Thiboutot invite all members of the community interested in working toward a cleaner neighborhood. Clean Streets is a Read More…
From the Desk of Thomas M. MeninoThis week, school buses returned to city neighborhoods as more than 56,000 Boston Public Schools (BPS) students headed back to the classroom to begin the 2010-2011 school year. The beginning of the school year is one of my favorite times of year in the City of Boston and we have been working all summer long to create new programs and expand existing ones to ensure that every child attending our schools has the opportunity to succeed both academically and socially.
Below is the agenda for the September meeting of the North End Waterfront Residents’ Association. Please note that the September meeting will be held on the third Thursday of the month, a week later than usual, in observance of Rosh Hashanah. NORTH END/WATERFRONT RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 130319 Boston, MA 02113 www.newra.org Date: Thursday, September 16, Read More…
Below is the detailed schedule for this weekend’s Boston “ahts” Festival at Christopher Columbus Park. (Thanks to Meredith P. for the info.) PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2010 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 WATERFRONT STAGE 5:45-6:30 PM AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER 6:45-7:30 PM MEAN CREEK Mean Creek was voted the best local act in the Boston Phoenix 2010 Best Music Poll. Read More…
This meeting has been added to the Community Calendar.
Local artist, Nathan Swain, has struck again. This time, he saw a planter left by the city on Salem St., painted it and planted it with flowers. Swain noted that he did this at his own expense since he understood no one was taking ownership of the dilapidated street structure. “I wanted it to look Read More…
Docked at the Fairmont Battery Wharf, across from the Coast Guard station.
The NEWRA Clean Streets Committee awarded its August 2010 Good Neighbor Recognition Award to the North Bennet Street School. The monthly award is researched and voted on by committee members and awarded to local businesses and property owners that consistently keep their sidewalks and gutters clean of trash and debris. Accepting the award for the Read More…
Annelena Lobb of the Boston Globe writes about the ongoing Lathrop Place expansion and fundraising campaign of the Paul Revere House Museum. “The organization that runs the Paul Revere House is trying to raise $4 million in its first-ever capital campaign to expand the historic North End site. The nonprofit Paul Revere Memorial Association, Read More…
The Madonna Della Cava Society and neighborhood residents enjoyed an end of summer BBQ on Battery Street.
When the three million annual Freedom Trail walkers leave Faneuil Hall and enter the North End, little do they realize they have to traverse the entire neighborhood and over to the Charlestown Navy Yard to reach the next public restroom. Unfortunately, that is the current situation along the North End Freedom Trail since the Hull Read More…
K.I.C.K., Karate Inspires City Kids, is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping inner city youth develop positive character traits and values through the study of Martial Arts. They run an after-school program at the Eliot School in the North End. Students recently performed a demonstration at National Night Out on the Prado, shown below. Eliot Read More…