Dear Mission Hill residents and businesses: For those of you who have been participating in the Community Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH) meetings—thank you. Thank you for wanting to drive positive change in our neighborhood. Our neighborhood is vibrant, diverse…
Category: Opinion
Hill Happenings
Several thousand people will attend the Urban Nutcracker this month at the John Hancock Hall, presented by Tony Williams. Williams, who grew up in the Bromley-Heath projects, founded the Urban Nutcracker in 2001. Williams runs the Tony Williams Dance Center…
What’s Happening on Main Street
Mission Hill, are you listening? Brigham Circle is glistening…after a beautiful sight of hundreds of neighbors gathering at Brigham Circle on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to kick off the City of Boston’s annual “Holidays on Main Streets” festivities. The plaza…
Editorial: Congratulations to Walsh
We congratulate Marty Walsh on his hard-earned victory in the Boston mayoral race. We eagerly await his administration and its promise of a City government that is more transparent, more efficient, more inclusive and more focused on equity—and just as…
Editorial: Thanks to Connolly
We owe thanks to John Connolly for his mayoral campaign. While unsuccessful, his bold campaign helped to shape the race and, ultimately, the City’s future direction. Connolly was the first incumbent elected official to enter the race at a time…
Editorial: Thanks to all
On Thanksgiving, some people have more to be thankful for than others, but we all have some blessings to count. At the Gazette, we have residents who not only read the paper but also contribute mightily to it, and local…
Letter: 55 Shattuck should remain as development lesson
Recent years have seen tremendous, almost unbridled growth in medical facility development in and around Francis Street and Longwood, Brookline and Huntington avenues. If you look at it with some distance and perspective, you see a terrible mess of buildings,…
Hill Happenings
More than 400 runners and walkers participated in the 5K Mission Hill Road Race on Oct. 5. The event raises money for the maintenance of the Kevin Fitzgerald Park. Ross Macandrew, 22, won the race in 16:28, 35 seconds ahead…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
The drizzle couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of local children at this year’s Halloween on the Hill on Oct. 31. Maggie Casey from the Mission Hill Youth Collaborative quarterbacked this neighborhood effort that surpassed last year’s masquerade. The Haunted…
Editorial: Congrats to winners–and also-rans
We congratulate Marty Walsh and John Connolly on their top-two finishes in the Sept. 24 mayoral election and we look forward to seeing them lay out compelling visions for Boston’s future in the coming weeks. Through hard, thorough campaigning, in…