Martin J. Walsh and Boston Parks and Recreation Commissioner Ryan Woods last month announced two consultants have been selected to develop Boston’s Urban Forest Plan. Boston landscape architecture firm Stoss Landscape Urbanism and forestry consultant Urban Canopy Works have been…
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BPS Receives Over 900 Instruments and Accessories Valued at over $500K from StubHub
This week, seven Boston public elementary schools are recipients of a generous donation consisting of over 900 instruments and accessories, valued at over $500,000. The donation from StubHub, made possible by a partnership with The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, is…
MFA Receives Gift of 48 Henryk Ross Photographs Depicting Life Inside a WWII Jewish Ghetto
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (1910–1991), which offer an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside Poland’s Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. Donated to the MFA by collector Howard…
A Future with Masks?
There has been one positive piece of news during the otherwise tragic COVID-19 pandemic, and that is this: The number of deaths and severe illness caused by the ordinary flu is down dramatically from a typical flu season. Epidemiologists credit…
We Must be Wary of the Virus
With the arrival of the vaccines and the spring season, it is clear that there is a light at the end of the tunnel from our year-long battle with COVID-19. However, the good news that has been seen in the…
Mission Hill: Community Assessment
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. – Mr. Rogers To the Editor, Mr. Rogers eloquently explains how a geographic area becomes…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
Teacher Vaccines: Baker-Polito Administration Announces Eligibility for K-12 Educators, Child Care Workers, and K-12 Staff
On March 3, the Baker-Polito Administration announced that K-12 educators, child care workers and K-12 school staff will be eligible to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting March 11. This group of workers will join the current eligible groups (including 65+…
Vacant P3 Building Site to Be Cleaned Up With Brownfields Grant
The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) announced that MassDevelopment has awarded the agency a $250,000 Brownfields Redevelopment grant to provide environmental remediation at P3 in Roxbury – just across the street from Boston Police Headquarters on the Mission Hill border. The…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Local Students Who Made the UMass Amherst Dean’s List Below is a list of local students who were named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the fall 2020 semester. In order to qualify, an undergraduate…