Featured Health & Environment

Flooding & Climate Change Readiness – Seeking Data and Information

The Bomb Cyclone Storm of Jan. 4 left damage in its wet wake all along the local coast. You are invited to help others understand just where and how the North End experienced this storm. Our ability to educate ourselves more thoroughly about storm effects strengthens our sense of climate change readiness in the future. Read More…

Arts & Culture Community

“Sons of Serendip” Go from Christopher Columbus Park to “America’s Got Talent”

While cruising Christopher Columbus Park at dusk earlier this summer, you may have noticed this quartet strumming away under the trees. This is one song they sang. They met at BU as grad students and are now teachers, an attorney and a grocery store clerk. All had been trained musically since childhood. They rallied with Read More…

Commentaries Police & Fire

Commentary: A Reflection For Boston

The electronic signs over the expressway and interstate this weekend flashed in sequence: “We are one Boston.” “Thank you to all.” We’ve had 9/11 when planes flew out of Boston into New York’s twin towers. We’ve had the Boston Strangler(s). We’ve had the Great Molasses Flood. The anarchist bombing of a North End fire station. Read More…