Category: News
‘Mobile City Hall’ coming to a corner near you
Starting last week, a “mobile City Hall” in a customized truck started patrolling Boston streets, helping citizens request dog licenses, pay parking tickets and register to vote. “City Hall To Go,” the first of its kind in the country, will…
Mission Hill voters favor liberal candidates
Mission Hill voters turned out in slightly fewer numbers than the city as a whole for the Nov. 6 election, but they followed the city in voting overwhelmingly for President Barack Obama and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. About 59…
South Ender runs for City Council
Michelle Wu, a South End attorney, this week announced her campaign for an at-large Boston City Council seat in next year’s election. “In Boston, we can lead globally by innovating locally,” Wu said in a press statement. “Innovation shouldn’t be…
Orchestra returns from Europe, plays local concerts
A Far Cry, a self-directed orchestra that rehearses in a storefront in Jamaica Plain, recently returned from a European tour and played two concerts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 280 Fenway. The group is the resident chamber orchestra…
Political Notes: Chang-Díaz receives education award
Local state Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz received an education award from the National Association of Education Service Agencies last month, according to a press release. Chang-Díaz and her Education Committee co-chair, state Rep. Alice Peisch, were picked for their working in…
Summer enters rock Hall of Fame
Donna Summer, the late “queen” of disco music and a former Mission Hill resident, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, it was announced this week. Summer, born LaDonna Gaines, lived at 16 Parker…
Pitching In
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Richard Rouse/Special to the Gazette On the Monday before Thanksgiving, well over 300 Mission Hill neighbors primed their palates at the 2nd annual ‘Savor the Flavor of Mission Hill’ event at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences…
Food, heating help requests skyrocket
Fuel assistance and food bank referrals at Action for Boston Community Development’s (ABCD) offices, including the Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Service Center, are at an “all-time high,” and the anti-poverty nonprofit has launched a “Winter Emergency Campaign” in response. ABCD is…