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Spring Fete at Nicholas House on June 6
The Nichols House Museum, located on historic Beacon Hill, will host its popular celebration, the Spring Fête, on Thursday, June 6, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the elegant setting of The Boston Athenaeum. This popular party has become a rite of spring for Beacon Hill, where friends and neighbors welcome the season, while...
Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Alive with the Divine, Ancient Relics
There is so much to be thinking about in May that it could be very easy to miss the launching of one of the more important exhibits to hit Boston in years – the Museum of Science’s ‘Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times.’ May brings about renewed attention to one’s gardening. There are...
Memorial Day
Memorial Day usually is the unofficial start of the all too brief summer in New England. Temperatures become hotter and days also become longer. For many grade school students, Memorial Day means that the end of the school year is in sight with only weeks remaining of books, teachers and homework. The deeper meaning...
Special Primary is on Tuesday
Given the timing following the three day weekend, we remind local voters that there will be a special Democratic Primary on Tuesday, May 28 to fill the State Representative seat left vacant when Marty Walz left office a few months ago. The Democratic primary will be between Jeff Dawson and Jay Livingston. There has...
Police Briefs 05-21-2013
May 6 37 Newbury St. – Sick/Injured/Medical – Person 553 Boylston St. – Larceny in a Building, $200 & Over 49 Gloucester St. – Investigate Person 815 Boylston St. – Property – Lost Commonwealth Avenue – Larceny,Vehicle Accessory, $200 & Over May 7 230 Marlborough St. – Towed Motor Vehicle 232 Marlborough St. –...
Architecture Blossoms in Spring
“I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.” (Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín, Mexican architect 1902 – 1988)
Democrats Square off at State Representative Candidates Forum
On Tuesday, May 7, the Beacon Hill Civic Association, the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay and the West End Civic Association presented a State Representative Candidates Forum for the 8th Suffolk District, which is made up of Back Bay, Beacon Hill and the West End in Boston, and Cambridgeport, Area 4 and MIT...
Police Briefs 05-14-2013
April 29 16 Newbury St. – Breaking and Entering, Non-Residence, Night – Force 329 Newbury St – Larceny, Shoplifting, $200 & Over 320 Newbury St. – Larceny, Bicycle, $200 & Over April 30 Boylston Street – Property – Found 497 Beacon St – Landlord – Tenant Service 719 Boylston St. – Larceny in a...
Sweet Sound of Spring
This Northern Cardinal sang long and loud from a Back Bay tree top. His song is a way to attract a mate and declare this territory as his. The redder the cardinal, the more attractive he is to mates because it’s a sign of a male who has found a good food supply.