Month: February 2019

CAMH votes on three new projects

Around 35 people gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Wednesday, January 16, for the first meeting of 2019 of the Community Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH). Those in attendance included about 16 Mission Hill residents,…

Northeastern Awarded $500,000 M212 State Grant

Northeastern University was recently awarded $500,000 for its Foster Innovation for Seafood Handling (FISH) program as part of $3.7 million in new grants from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2). The program is spearheaded by Professor Taskin Padir and “bring[s] collaborative…

Hill Happenings

About 80 revelers gathered at the West Roxbury Elks to celebrate “Big Jim” Moynihan’s surprise 70th birthday party. A hulking soft-spoken man, Jim is my childhood friend and we grew up in the Mission Hill project in the 1950s and…

What’s Happening on Main Streets

The year 2019 began quite differently with an interesting (for me) medical challenge. As some of you might have heard, I underwent heart surgery right after Christmas to correct a defective aortic valve that I’ve been aware of for the…