Category: News
Love Your Block ‘26
Next neighborhood cleanup set for May 2 By Gazette Staff Mayor Michelle Wu and the Office of Civic Organizing invite residents to join a second round of the annual Love Your Block cleanup on Saturday, May 2. While the…
Mission Hill’s Ada Martinez joins 58th Walk for Hunger
Special to the Gazette On May 3, Ada Martinez, of Mission Hill, will join thousands of walkers for Project Bread’s 58th Walk for Hunger. Participants will walk a 3-mile loop on the Boston Common or virtually in their own…
Wu releases 2030 Climate Action Plan to strengthen Boston’s climate resilience
Special to the Gazette Mayor Michelle Wu announced this week the release of Boston’s landmark 2030 Climate Action Plan alongside dozens of community and institutional partners at LoPresti Park in East Boston. This implementation plan provides a roadmap for…
Second annual Community Read-a-thon of ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’
Special to the Gazette Nearly 200 volunteers will gather this May to read “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” in its entirety. The two-day marathon event honors the 101st anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birth and seeks to keep…
News in Brief
Community Alliance of Mission Hill to Meet May 20 The Community Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH) will hold its monthly general membership meeting on Wednesday, May 20, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Courtney Wright The weather is doing its part this past week to keep me in high spirits as we embark on another very busy month in the neighborhood. I would like to extend a sincere THANK YOU…
Rodney Marshall appointed as 45th Commissioner of Fire Department
Special to the Gazette Mayor Michelle Wu announced the appointment of Rodney Marshall as the 45th Commissioner/Chief of Department of the Boston Fire Department (BFD). Marshall, who joined the BFD in 1991 and currently serves as Chief of…
Rescuers work to combat food waste
By Vina Berger Food rescuers Jeff Schwartz and Virginie Forget stood outside the Trader Joe’s on Boylston Street recently, gingerly stacking boxes of carefully packaged groceries into the trunk of Forget’s car. Containers labeled “fresh fruit” were stacked…
Hill Happenings
By Maurice ‘Mossy’ Martin Condolences to the Kern family, whose beautiful mother, Joanie Kern, passed away peacefully at her Roslindale home last month. Joanie graduated from Mission High in 1959, and she eventually earned her master’s degree from…