The Good Neighbor Recognition Award was recently presented to Battery Wharf Hotel on the North End waterfront. The award was presented to Trish Berry, Manager, Jackson Keohane, Assistant Manager and their staff / governance by NEWRA President Ford Cavallari and Recognition Committee Chair Janet Gilardi on behalf of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA). Read More…
It’s time to catch up with the most popular posts this week on NorthEndWaterfront.com! Bruins Players Help North End Youth Hockey Celebrate Successful Season Over a hundred people filled Filippo’s Restaurant to celebrate the ending of another successful hockey season for the North End Youth Hockey Introduction Program. Several team members from the Boston Bruins showed up Read More…
Readers often ask me about the ins and outs of NorthEndWaterfront.com. I recently did an interview for Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers covering the launch of the site in 2009, its current status, our successes, challenges and future goals. Here are some excerpts: When did your site launch, what geography does it cover and why was it founded? Read More…
The two North End / Waterfront neighborhood groups voted to support a planned renovation at 27 Sheafe Street by property owner Peter McGinnis. NEWRA members voted 18-7 and NEWNC voted 8-1 to recommend approval of the application to the Zoning Board of Appeal. The petitioner is seeking to change the legal occupancy from a five (5) family Read More…
The Nazzaro Center-NEAA basketball league, a program servicing about 125 boys and girls ranging in age from 4-18, held its annual awards banquet at Filippos restaurant on Sunday March 13 and it looked like an old Boston Garden sellout of 13,909. Actually there were only about 200 children and their families but it did fill the hall to Read More…
In preparation for the April 12 Special State Primary election, the City of Boston Election Department is reminding residents that Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 8 p.m. is the deadline to register to be able to vote on April 12. Individuals can register to vote either in person at City Hall’s Boston Election Department room Read More…
The Old North Foundation has filed a grant application with the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund to remodel its garden and courtyard area adjacent to the church at 193 Salem Street. Stephen T. Ayres, Vicar of the Old North Church and Executive Director of the Old North Foundation, presented plans to the North End / Waterfront neighborhood groups. Read More…
The ABCD North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center (NE/WE NSC) held its St. Patrick’s Day party on Friday, March 11th. Nearly 5 dozen members of community, almost all of them seniors from the neighborhoods, came to the center at 1 Michelangelo Street in the North End to feast on corned beef with all the trimmings, Read More…
St. John School students in Grades 4 – 8 participated in a week-long STEM camp, sponsored by i2 Learning. The camp’s courses were taught by four St. John School teachers (Mrs. Karen D’Errico, Ms. Grace Miller, Dr. Anne King and Ms. Karen Shea) who received training over the summer. The students spent five full days Read More…
Sixteen Eliot School students represented the school at the Boston Public Schools Citywide & Massachusetts Region VI Science Fair. On Wednesday, March 9, Eliot students Carolina Antonio, Meade Daily, Maria Grando and Chiara Haskell were recognized at the Bruce C. Bolling Center for their outstanding achievements. The students joined over 70 schools at the Cabot Read More…
It’s all Irish on St. Patrick’s Day with the huge flag flying in the Rowes Wharf arch. (Photo by Matt Conti). “Neighborhood Photo” is a regular feature on NorthEndWaterfront.com. Email your best photos to info@northendwaterfront.com. Please include a sentence (or more) telling us about your photo. See past neighborhood photo posts.
(In some circles ‘Luck of the Irish’ isn’t so much unexpected good fortune, but rather a positive outlook on a discouraging situation.) It was Labor Day weekend and the phone was ringing. The caller was unidentified. So, for a second or two, I thought about not answering. Maybe it was an unsolicited fund raiser or Read More…