Election Drop Boxes Available Around the City
The Boston Election Department announced dropboxes are now available around the city for Boston residents to vote by mail in the November 3 State Election. Registered voters can submit their...
View ArticleWalsh Announces Fall Drive-In Movie Series Starts Oct. 22
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the City of Boston Fall Drive-In Movie Series, organized by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment....
View ArticleCity Seeks Assistance Placing Historic Gravestones
In the archives of the City of Boston’s Historic Burying Grounds Initiative, eleven fully intact gravestones lie ready to be placed in the correct burying ground. The City is now looking for...
View ArticleEversource Recognizes Demont as a Winner of Annual Student Challenge
Eversource recently honored Warren Prescott School student Walter Demont as a finalist in the 7th annual Eversource Student Challenge. The contest encourages Massachusetts K-12 students to develop...
View ArticleCity announces Mayor’s Pumpkin Carving Contest
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has announced that it will be celebrating Halloween with Mayor Walsh’s Pumpkin Carving Contest featuring a grand prize provided by Xfinity. Mayor Martin J....
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Halloween Plan B: Monument Square 35th Annual Halloween Update
There will be no Trick or Treating or Parade around the Bunker Hill Monument this year, due to COVID-19, but Charlestown residents will still celebrate a safe, fun, inclusive and memorable Halloween....
View ArticleBe Sure to Vote
Okay — this is it. The long presidential campaign has come to an end and it will all be over by the time this newspaper is published next week. Although a record-breaking number of Americans already...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 10-29-2020
Charlestown Beat Attempted Robbery 10/20/20 – A victim on Union Street reported while she was walking her dog, a male suspect approached her, brandished a knife and demanded her wallet. The victim...
View ArticleThe Anchor in the Navy Yard Schedule Halloween Events
The Anchor in the Navy is hosting the following Halloween events: • Open daily through November 3rd • Visit The Anchor’s Apple Orchard, Spooky Shipyard and the city’s largest, urban Pumpkin Patch...
View ArticleNeighborhood Round Up
FCNY October Virtual Event Join Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 29 th for a virtual evening with Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the...
View ArticleUSS Constitution Museum Acquires Rare Collection of Early U.S. Navy Documents
The USS Constitution Museum recently acquired at auction an outstanding collection of significant correspondence related to the first years of USS Constitution’s career under sail. The collection,...
View ArticleWalsh Announces Good Neighbors Program Fulfills More Than 4,500 Requests
Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Monday announced the Good Neighbors program, a partnership with Nesterly that connects older, at-risk individuals with volunteers to help with basic needs, has fulfilled more...
View ArticleStories from the Shipyard: USS Hartford
By Mike Manning, Chair – Friends of the Boston Harborwalk In terms of notoriety, the USS Hartford is one of the best known vessels constructed in the Boston Navy Yard (in Charlestown). The Hartford...
View ArticleUSS Constitution and Museum Celebrate 223rd Birthday
USS Constitution and the USS Constitution Museum celebrated the 223rd birthday of the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world during a Facebook Live presentation, Wednesday, October 21. The...
View ArticleHalloween Plan B: Monument Square 35th Annual Halloween Update
There will be no Trick or Treating or Parade around the Bunker Hill Monument this year, due to COVID-19, but Charlestown residents will still celebrate a safe, fun, inclusive and memorable Halloween....
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Pumpkin Spiking
John O’Leary and Paige Medley carved two small pumpkins on their front porch last Saturday as part of their Pumpkin Spike. The neighbors there invite residents to ‘spike’ their small pumpkins on the...
View ArticleThere Was Only One “Bond…..James Bond”
The passing last weekend of Sean Connery, who became known to everyone throughout the world for his role as James Bond in the 1960s films, was a sad event for all of us who grew up mesmerized by his...
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Charlestown Mothers Association gets Resiliency Fund Grant Mayor Martin J. Walsh, along with the Boston Resiliency Fund Steering Committee, announced $360,000 in funding to six nonprofit organizations...
View ArticleNeighborhood Round Up
“E” inc.’s Science Emporium – the Amazing Store With a Mission! “e” inc.’s Science Emporium is going online with Curbside Pick-up! The “e” inc. Emporium, Charlestown’s own Science Store for kids (and...
View ArticleHalloween and Fall Activities Continue for Second Weekend at the Anchor
Despite the cold and precautions, The Anchor saw such a great turnout for its fall programming and Halloween events that it’s going to do it again. Who said Halloween can’t repeat? Certainly not Chris...
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