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Mayor Walsh Announces Distribution of 10,000 Community Care Kits

Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS) this weekend will distribute the first half of the 20,000 care kits assembled over the course of this week to various community outreach partners, meal sites, and testing sites in Boston, building on the Mayor’s commitment of making critical resources available to residents. Each kit contains a mask, hand [...]

By |May 29th, 2020|Categories: Education, Featured|Comments Off on Mayor Walsh Announces Distribution of 10,000 Community Care Kits

Bill Frew Remembers

Editor’s NOTE:  William J. “Bill” Frew is a local writer.  His major work is “A Pilot’s Life”, memoirs of flying for the Air Force and TransWorld Airlines.  With his permission, we have excerpted a vivid memory Bill wrote about in Book 2, concerning Charles Bazzinotti – now memorialized on South Boston’s Vietnam Memorial, the first in the nation.   “As [...]

By |May 25th, 2020|Categories: Editorial, Featured|Comments Off on Bill Frew Remembers

Mona Amelia

By: Tara Kerrigan Hayes I'm one of those people who tussles with the temptation of quitting Facebook. I struggle with intentions behind certain posts; the transparent boasting and silent competitions under the guise of something else. But I stick around for the positives, like the steady stream of comic relief we so desperately need lately, and for keeping up to [...]

By |May 23rd, 2020|Categories: Featured, Happenings|Comments Off on Mona Amelia

Drawing A Line In The Sand To Keep Our Beaches Safe And Open

The late US District Court Judge A. David Mazzone, who oversaw the Boston Harbor case for nearly 20 years, often said that he measured the success of the Boston Harbor cleanup not by the “number of feet” you could see into the water, but by the “pairs of feet” he saw on the region’s public beaches on a hot summer [...]

By |May 21st, 2020|Categories: Featured, Lifestyle|Comments Off on Drawing A Line In The Sand To Keep Our Beaches Safe And Open

Houses of Worship and the Power of Prayer

Brianne Fitzgerald NP,  MPH Governor Charlie Baker has unveiled his plan to begin the process of re-opening the state.  The re-opening of individual businesses is significant, but not any more so than the re-opening houses of worship.  We are all grateful as we move away from quarantine, and perhaps none more so than those individuals who gather in the basement [...]

By |May 20th, 2020|Categories: Editorial, Featured|Comments Off on Houses of Worship and the Power of Prayer

Mother’s Day COVID-19 Style

Brianne Fitzgerald RN, NP, MPH A mother never has a day off, whether you are a front line worker in a grocery store, EMT or emergency room doctor.  A mother never has a day off, whether you are managing a Zoom meeting from home trying to homeschool two children under the age of 12, and carving out extra time to [...]

By |May 10th, 2020|Categories: Featured, Happenings|Comments Off on Mother’s Day COVID-19 Style
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