USS Constitution to go Back Afloat
By Seth Daniel The oldest sailing warship still afloat will once again be afloat this July 23 and 24 as work crews wind down the two-year restoration project and prepare to put Old Ironsides back...
View ArticleMake Way for Wynn:Steel Goes Up on the Tower, Gas Station to Go
By Seth Daniel As the steel bones of the new Lower Broadway in Everett – just over the Charlestown line – begin to climb to the sky at the Wynn Boston Harbor, old stalwarts on the roadway are about to...
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Impossible Dream Returns to Charlestown Marina, Spaulding for Sail Boston
By Seth Daniel Charlestown’s Paul McDonough and his wife enjoys a day on the water last Friday in the fully-accessible Impossible Dream boat as part of Sail Boston. The boat partnered with Spaulding,...
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Fun Time for YMCA
YMCA of Greater Boston CEO James Morton, board chair Gina Koprowski, executive director of the Charlestown Y Andrea Wilk, State Rep. Dan Ryan, and Karson Tager, who not only serves as the house DJ,...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
ON QUINN SCHOLARS Dear Editor: Commencing with Robert Irgens in 1970, we have a stellar group of Quinn Scholars. As the first woman recipient in 1977 Ann Marie Duffy has brought an abundance of pride...
View ArticleTownie Tidbits
By Sal Giarratania REMEMBERING THE VENDOME FIRE I still remember quite clearly what happened on Saturday afternoon, June 17, 1972 when nine firefighters perished when a wall collapsed after a fire at...
View ArticlePolice Briefs 06-29-2017
Charlestown Beat 06/19/17 – Officers responded to Austin Street for a reported armed robbery. The victim told police that two suspects entered the store. One suspect then brandished a black handgun and...
View ArticleCharlestown High School Graduates the Class of 2017
By Patrick O’Connor Graduation for the class of 2017 at Charlestown High School took place on Thursday afternoon, June 15, at the Clarke Athletic Center at UMass/Boston. Welcoming all and serving as...
View ArticleJury Acquits in Fatal Fistfight that Killed Brian Hingston
The Dorchester man who hit and killed Charlestown native Brian Hingston last year in Dorchester – as Hingston tried to break up a scuffle – was cleared by a Suffolk County Superior Court jury last...
View ArticleNASCAR Driver Patrick Receives Welcome, Tour at Warren Prescott School
By Pat DeCola NASCAR.com Danica Patrick arrived at Charlestown’s Warren Prescott K-8 School on Wednesday morning, June 14, to a sea of students chanting her name in unison, a DJ blaring top 40 hits and...
View ArticleStatus of One Charlestown Discussed
By Lauren Bennett The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) held a public meeting on June 22 to discuss the status of the One Charlestown Article 80...
View ArticlePublic Hearing Held on Liquor License Expansion; Pressley says Intent is to...
By Seth Daniel City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said she was encouraged by the first liquor license expansion hearing for Boston last Thursday, June 22, and stated that the Home Rule Petition language...
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Party on the Pier
Ashton Smith, Jacob Breslin, Jane Dudley, and Kat Pinto enjoyed the 9th Annual Party on the Pier for the Courageous Sailing program’s programs for the Harvard Kent, Warren Prescott and Eliot Schools....
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Summer Solstice
Leonora, Emma, and Victoria Skog with Erica Seminario enjoy the Summer Solstice celebration in the Navy Yard on Weds., June 21. The annual celebration put on by the Friends of the Charlestown Navy...
View ArticleTownie Sports
By Kevin Kelly 2017 HIGH SCHOOL ALL STARS (SPRING) Congratulations to all of the athletes. GO TOWNIES!!! TOWNIES Patrick Kelly, Pope John XXIII (baseball – senior shortstop) Maeve Fitzz, O’Bryant...
View ArticleSenator Markey is 100 Percent Correct for His Reproach of Kellyanne Conway
It is fair to say that the world as Americans have known it in the post-World War II era has been turned upside-down — and not in a good way — since the election of Donald Trump as President of the...
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By Sal Giarratani DOES THE BOSTON GLOBE HAVE AN AGENDA ON ONE CHARLESTOWN? I too like many in the Town read that Adrian Walker op-ed piece on One Charlestown ( Saving the Projects) and started to...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor
Thank you Charlestown Schoolboys Scholarship Association Dear Editor: We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the members of the Charlestown Schoolboys Scholarship Association for the award...
View ArticleSam Hill Joins Staff at Solid Logic
Solid Logic, a green-driven commercial hard surface restoration and maintenance expert delivering the latest technology to provide the highest quality care solutions available, is pleased to announce...
View ArticleCharlestown Native Ronnie Hamilton an Example of Being Able to Turn His Life...
By Delila Keravuori Ex-Coast Guard cook Ronnie Hamilton said that as a child growing up in Charlestown, he was scared of the Pine Street Inn – a homeless shelter and service center in the South End....
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