During the last week of August the weekly COVID positive test rate soared over 5 percent but infections have dropped throughout September. According to the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) weekly COVID report, 1,422 Mission Hill/Roxbury residents were tested between…
Author: John Lynds
Mission Hill voters went with Wu and Janey
Boston voters as a whole picked Michelle Wu and Anissa Essaibi George to advance to the November General Election for Boston Mayor, but Mission Hill voters supported Wu and Acting Mayor Kim Janey for Mayor during Boston’s Preliminary Election. Voters…
Two Haitian Americans running for At-Large City Council ask for help for their homeland
Haiti was still recovering from the violent 2010 earthquake that killed 200,000 Haitians when another magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula struck the impoverished country last month on Saturday, August 14. The latest earthquake killed over 2,200 people, injured…
Markey talks the realities of Climate Change at NE Aquarium
At a Climate Action Conversation at the New England Aquarium last Thursday U.S. Sen. Ed Markey called the global warming crisis a ‘Code Red’ and outlined steps needed to be taken now to ensure a sustainable future for the planet. …
Pressley comments on Supreme Court inaction on Texas abortion law
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’s Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s inaction on Texas’ restrictive abortion law. “The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the enactment of Texas’s dangerous…
Local artists and organizations receive city grants to increase public art in Mission Hill
Last month the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awarded grants to artists and organizations to create short-term public art projects and activations of public spaces through the Transformative Public Art program. In Mission Hill the grant money will fund…
Lt. Governor Karyn Polito Announces State Grants for Child Care Centers
Last month, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Early Education and Care Commissioner Samantha Aigner-Treworgy announced $7.5 million in Early Education and Out of School Time Capital Fund (EEOST) capital improvement grants to 36 organizations to renovate childcare facilities that serve…
Weekly Positive Test Rate in Mission Hill/Roxbury Now Over 4 Percent
With the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus running rampant across the U.S. and recent infections in Boston traced back to an outbreak in Provincetown over July 4th weekend, Mission Hill/Roxbury have seen breakthrough infections among vaccinated people skyrocket. While…
Violent Part One Crime Down 18 Percent in B-2, Other Part One Crimes Down 20 Percent
Last week the Boston Police released its half-year crime stats that compares January 1, 2021 through July 25, 2021 with the same time period last year and found that both Violent Part One Crime as well as Non-violent Part One…
EBT/SNAP Benefits Expanded to Online Purchases
During the height of the pandemic, most Mission Hill residents were doing their food shopping from the comfort of their homes. While the online grocery delivery service industry exploded because many were not comfortable venturing into crowded grocery stores, it…