By Ellen Walker Special to the Gazette Mission Hill Framer’s market is open for business this Winter. Yes, it’s true and it’s thriving! In addition to picking up your organically grown vegetables and using SNAP, you can also find some…
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Two Firms Announced for Boston’s First Urban Forest Plan
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…
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…
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…
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…
Letters
Mission Hill: A 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…
This Month in Hill History
The Gazette’s top headlines from this month in local history: 2011 “Turner sentenced to three years in prison” Former City Councilor Chuck Turner was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2011 to three years in prison and three years of probation…
Boston Public Library Announces Teen Music Maker showdown
The Boston Public Library announced it is partnering with The Hip Hop Transformation for the Teen Music Maker Showdown: a musical event series and statewide competition for teens. From February 5-25, Massachusetts residents ages 13-18 are encouraged to submit self-produced music tracks to…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Ellen Walker Special to the Gazette These days, the political field is going through so many changes, however, it is the local change that has caught our attention. Mayor Marty Walsh has nurtured the main streets program and helped…