Residents Raise Major Concerns about Conditions at Hennigan Community Center When Phyllis Petruzzelli and many of the other female swimmers that utilize the Hennigan Pool and Community Center on Heath Street at the Mission Hill/JP border come to participate in…
Author: Seth Daniel
Condiciones Sucias en Hennigan Center
Cuando Claudine Francois, Luisa Harris, Perlina Mills, Debra McLellan, Phyllis Petruzzelli, Nancy Routh y Gina Blanca vienen al Centro Comunitario Hennigan para su clase de natación, se inspeccionan los vestuarios y pasillos. El ritual sería divertido si no fuera…
Former ATF Agent Writes Book about Solving Infamous Boston Arson Cases
The leads had dwindled and houses and buildings in Mission Hill and around the city were burning down nearly every night in the early 1980s. ATF agents like Wayne Miller were working the case hard, but getting nowhere. Then…
Boston Explorers Helps Kids Explore Their Interests, and Their City
When Alphonse Litz was growing up in Syracuse, there wasn’t an historic site or a walking trail that his working class family didn’t visit and learn about. It was a way for them to experience their surroundings, and occupy their…
New England Genealogical Society Speaks Out Against New Record Restrictions
Seemingly out of the far reaches of left field, the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in the Back Bay were ambushed last week with a little-known proposal in Gov. Charlie Baker’s budget that would severely limit vital…
A Different Budget: New Superintendent’s Budget Reflects What She Heard: Investments Being Proposed for the Tobin School K-8, Mission School K-8, and Hennigan School K-8
The world of school budgets within the Boston Public Schools (BPS) has rarely been marked by intrigue or excitement in year’s past, but new Supt. Brenda Cassellius said this month that her first budget proposal is different than any previous…
Boston Public Schools Exam School Test Could Be Changed Next Fall
In the wake of a scandal late last week involving the maker of the ISEE Exam School test and the Boston Public Schools, Supt. Brenda Cassellius reported this week they have begun to seek new vendors for the exam school…
State of the City to be Held on Tuesday, Jan. 7
The annual State of the City address by Mayor Martin Walsh will take place in Symphony Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 7. The address will follow the swearing in of the new City Council – which includes several new…
Wu Takes Citywide Vote, Essaibi George Comes in Second
Councilor Michelle Wu scored an impressive victory citywide in the Preliminary Election on Tuesday, Sept. 25, over her opponents, but Councilor Annissa Essaibi George also made a strong move in finishing second ahead of the rest of the field. The…
Walsh Announces National Main Streets Conference Coming to Boston
Mayor Martin Walsh and a consortium of administration officials converged on Hyde Square in JP Monday afternoon, July 22, for the annual Mayor on Main Trolley Tour – with the mayor breaking the news that the national Main Streets conference…