By Mossy Martin Mission Hill lost a great man last month when Charley Kelly passed away at age 94. Charley, a Mission High School graduate in 1943, was a star basketball player, part of the famous Kelly basketball duo, along…
Month: May 2019
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Ellen Walker Special to the Gazette Monday, April 16, was a busy day here in the Boston area. The running of the 123rd annual Boston Marathon was held in typical hard to predict New England weather – starting with…
Support Senator Markey’s Effort to Ban Robocalls
Robocalls are the new plague of the digital and cell phone era. According to some estimates, Americans received 48 billion robocalls last year, up from 30 billion in 2017. It used to be that only a person’s land line would…
Will April Showers Bring May Flowers?
As Bob Dylan noted, you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing’. Similarly, we have not needed a weatherman to tell us that this has been a particularly rainy April. However, we learned this…
Op-ed: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Care and Data
By Alexander Acosta A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to visit Maryhaven treatment facility in Columbus, Ohio, to hear from those recovering from the effects of addiction. The visit was an impactful one. I met…