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Travel to New York City with the Mission Main Concerned Residents Committee. Visit Aqueduct Flea Market and Jamaica Ave in Queens. Will stop for a soul food lunch. Raffles and movies on board coach bus leaves Sat. Aug. 14. Bus leaves 6:15am, returns 10:30pm from 43 Smith St. $45 per seat. Payment due July 15th. First come, first served. Info: Gloria, 785-4646.

Brigham Circle Farmers Market, produce from MacArthur Farm of Holliston and Gary's Too of Townsend. EBT Cards and WIC vouchers accepted. Nutritionists from UMass Boston will sponsor healthy food demonstrations and offer free samples throughout the summer. Second Thursdays: Boston Bicyclists Union offers free bike tune-ups and minor repairs. Thursdays through early November 11 am-6 pm, 1 Brigham Circle.

Free Neighborhood Nights, at the Gardner Museum, enjoy the museum, music and beautiful courtyard, July 22 and Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m. Free tickets available Tues.-Thurs., 11am-4pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. Info: www.gardnermuseum.org/566-1401.

Harmony on the Hill, a grassroots organization serving Mission Hill and all surrounding communities, needs volunteers to help plan a Mission Hill Celebration of Community Unity around race and diversity. The celebration will be in early fall. Info: 427-6919/info@missionhillinharmony.org/.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, offers free admission to members of the military and their families, through Labor Day, Sept. 6, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. Info: www.gardnermuseum.org.

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July 16, 2010

Johnson Center future a mystery

Debate reveals local tensions

The future of the local Thomas Johnson Community Center is a mystery, as the city's widely criticized plans to hand over the Johnson and other centers to a private organization by July 1 appear to have failed.

Proposed new hotel could be Comfort Inn

S. HUNTINGTON AVE.—Developers hoping to turn the former Pond View Nursing Home into a 39-unit hotel are in negotiations with a management company that could run the hotel as a Comfort Inn franchise.

Tobin to leave council for Northeastern

Three candidates eye seat

City Councilor John Tobin will leave the Boston City Council at the end of the month for a community relations job at Northeastern University.

"It's kind of like being the district councilor for Northeastern," said Tobin, whose District 6 council seat includes part of the Back of the Hill, about his new job.


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