Video: General Greenway Update – Board of Directors Meeting on January 29, 2013. The video shown is the third and final part of this board meeting. View the first part on Governance Revisions and/or second part on Carousel Contracts. 00:00 Acting Executive Director Jesse Brackenbury gives an update on the Winter Lights program and a Read More…
Happily ready to greet shoppers, staff and volunteers from the Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), gather around a table with a display of some of the most requested food items needed for families of need for The Whole Foods Food Drive Event at the Charles River Plaza. ABCD staff and volunteers distributed a “Wish Read More…
Three local youth are headed to the Boston Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest to be held at the Rabb Lecture Hall in the Copley Library on March 16th. Representing their schools, Jacob Stein (Eliot), Sarah Knotts (St. John) and Rohan Sheth (Learning Project) are all hopeful that this is just another stop before Read More…
Tickets: 3 cards for $30.00 Must pay in advance! Due to space limitations we will likely sell out. 18+ only. To get your cards, see Laurie D’Elia at the Nazzaro Center or contact Maria Shea at shea.maria@gmail.com Maria Shea is running this year’s Boston Marathon on April 15 for the Charity “Red Sox Foundation”. This Read More…
$250,000-$349,000 162 Salem #1A: 1 bed, 1 bath with 478 Sq.Ft. sold for $279,000 $350,000-$499,000 61 Prince #3F: 1 bed, 1 bath with 599 Sq.Ft. sold for $400,000 26 Stillman #4-4: 0 bed, 1 bath with 647 Sq.Ft. sold for $450,000 $500,000-$699,000 34 Clark #3: 2 bed, 1 bath with 722 Sq.Ft. sold for $515,000 Read More…
For the second year in a row, the North End Beautification Committee funded a Christmas tree and streetlight pole wreathes in the North End for the holiday season. We also held a special tree lighting event at the Christmas tree on the corner of Hanover and Cross Streets. The North End Beautification Committee is a Read More…
Contracts related to the custom carousel by the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy were reviewed and approved at the January 29, 2013 Board of Directors meeting. Linda Jonash, Director of Planning & Design, presented a new contract to the Board for the surrounding park and tree grove as well as follow on contracts for the Read More…
LIMONE, Elisa A. “Lisa” (Conte), 63 of Medford, formerly of the North End, died Wednesday after a long illness in the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers, MA. Born in Boston, she lived in Medford for the past 28 years and formerly of the North End of Boston. She was the daughter of the late Anna Read More…
A longtime NEWF reader asks about snow shoveling responsibilities in areas that are not in front of specific properties, nor in public parks or plazas. A perect example in the North End / Waterfront is the stretch on Atlantic Ave. between Lewis Wharf and the Sail Loft / Commercial Wharf. This had been nagging me, Read More…
Neighborhood View of the Day: A NEWF fan shares this photo of the “old” waterfront taken from Old North Church with the Lincoln Wharf power stack, North End rooftops, a pre-residential Union Wharf and the former top of St. Stephens. I’m not sure if the BullFinch building is there or if that’s the Mariner on Read More…
Video: Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board Meeting 1/29/13, Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St. – Part 1 of 3 – Governance Revisions The Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy revised its governance documents at the January 29, 2013 Board of Directors meeting. The Board also voted to bring on a new member, Robyn Reed, nominated by the Read More…
It’s the “era of the city” and the time for working women equality, school choice and gun control. Those were some of the themes broadcast in Tuesday night’s State of the City address by Mayor Thomas M. Menino at Faneuil Hall. After recovering from a lengthy illness, the Mayor walked the 50 feet to the Read More…