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BY SAL GIARRATANI Cross Pollination Charlestown Style “With the Charlestown Working Theater next door, they and the Gardens of Charlestown provide a cross pollination of creativity for the...
View ArticleTaxi Versus Uber Battle Has Genesis in Charlestown
When Winthrop resident Tiffany Mitchell – one of the largest taxi cab operators in Boston, running Top Cab and City Cab – first saw Uber ride share vehicles move into the Boston market, she could never...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 10-01-2015
Charlestown Beat POLICE/COMMUNITY MEETING: Meet the police & discuss public safety issues on the last Wednesday of every month at the police station, 20 Vine Street, at 6:00 p.m., 2nd floor,...
View ArticleCold Spell Over Casino Likely After Ice Was Seemingly Thawing
Just as Mayor Martin Walsh and the City’s administration had begun cursory meetings with Wynn executives and a relationship was seemingly forming last week – all of that goodwill has likely been thrown...
View ArticleBoston Files New Suit to Strip Wynn of Mepa Certificate
By Seth Daniel The City of Boston – just as it spoke of productive meetings last week with Wynn executives – quietly filed a new lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court’s Civil Division on Monday asking for...
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Music,Community Keep Smokey On the Right Path in a Tough Year
By Seth Daniel Michael Cain – known more appropriately the neighborhood as Smokey – frequently jokes that in turning around his life from drugs and addiction, he made a move from the back of this...
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Candlelight Vigil
A Charlestown resident looked solemn while holding her candle at the CSAC and CHAD 7th Annual Candlelight Vigil on Saturday night. The vigil remembers those who lost their battle with drugs and...
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BY SAL GIARRATANI COOKIE AND CHARLESTOWN BACK ON BNN-TV I am so happy that Cookie Giordano will once again be doing a Charlestown program on BNN-TV. Her old show, «Charlestown Live›› was on the air for...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
Thank you for scholarship Dear Editor I would like to thank the Mark and Michelle Gorman Scholarship Fund Committee for selecting me as a 2015 scholarship recipient. Having been my first time...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 10-08-2015
Charlestown Beat POLICE/COMMUNITY MEETING: Meet the police & discuss public safety issues on the last Wednesday of every month at the police station, 20 Vine Street, at 6:00 p.m., 2nd floor,...
View ArticleHubway Bike to Expand to More Locations
Mayor Martin J. Walsh along with the Boston Transportation Department/Boston Bikes ann-ounced this week that work is underway to expand the Hubway Bike Share System to 15 additional station locations...
View ArticleLatin Academy Bus Elimination Causes Parents’ Nightmare
When seventh graders going to Boston Latin Academy, which is in Roxbury, wake up in Charlestown on a school day, the long journey to school requires taking an MBTA bus to Haymarket – often in the dark...
View ArticleWynn Files Lawsuit Regarding Allegations
By Seth Daniel After having restrained itself for many months, Wynn Everett owner Steve Wynn said Wednesday that his company is fed up with the treatment its received in Boston and they were now going...
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Blood Moon
Local resident Ed Loan caught this picture of the Blood Moon over Charlestown on Sunday, September 27. The next time the moon will make the closest approach again to the earth will be in 2033.
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Blessing of the Animals
Yvette DiFrummolo and Maggie the dog pose for a photo at last Sunday’s (Oct. 4) Blessing of the Animals in Thompson Square. Rev. Thomas Mousin and Father James Ronan led the service to recognize the...
View ArticleObituaries 10-15-2015
Carmine Bartolo Longtime employee of Revere Sugar Refinery Carmine A. Bartolo, a resident of Charlestown for over 60 years, went to the Lord surrounded by his family on September 25. He was 87 years...
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BY SAL GIARRATANI TONY V HOSTING COMEDY NITE TIME Don’t forget Sunday, October 25 is “Comedy Nite” in Charlestown with Tony V hosting this fundraising event. Donations should be made out to the...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor
Thank you for coverage Dear Editor: I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to both Seth Daniels and Sal Giarratani at the Patriot Bridge who not only wrote some pretty remarkable stuff in the last...
View ArticleToxic Soil Clean-Up at Wynn Site Set to Begin Next Week
After decades of toxic dormancy on the old Monsanto site, a Boston company will begin removing the environmental sins of the past from the former chemical plant next week in preparation for...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 10-15-2015
Charlestown Beat POLICE/COMMUNITY MEETING: Meet the police & discuss public safety issues on the last Wednesday of every month at the police station, 20 Vine Street, at 6:00 p.m., 2nd floor,...
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