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• Healey Proclaims September as ‘Emergency Preparedness Month’

  05-09-2024 09:37 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesGovernor Maura Healey has declared September 2024 as Emergency Preparedness Month to highlight the importance of emergency preparedness and to encourage planning for disasters and other types of emergencies.  The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), and other state, local, and nonprofit agencies will promote preparedness through various public outreach efforts throughout the month. These efforts are p
  
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• Torit Students to Appear in Documentary Series

  02-10-2024 22:23 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to TimesTorit Montessori School students were filmed for a documentary series to be broadcast in U.S. and Asia featuring scientist Ben Novak of Revive & Restore, an organization that provides funds to researcher partners worldwide to develop new tools for species restoration.Photo Courtesy of Torit Montessori School
  Scientist Ben Novak Novak displays rare Passenger Pigeon feather specimens.
  The third- through sixth-grade students listened to a lecture about DNA, gene editing, conserv
  
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• Local Spider Expert Weighs in on Joro Sighting

  02-10-2024 22:23 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Michael Coughlin Jr.Jessica Garb, an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell whose laboratory specializes in spiders, gave the lowdown on the unfamiliar creature that appeared in the neighborhood recently: the Joro Spider.Photo Courtesy Christina Butler via Wikipedia
  The Joro Spider is native to Eastern Asia and was first introduced to
  the southern part of the United States around 2013.
  While Garb said she does not study this species specifically, she provided informatio
  
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• Beacon Hill Books & Café owner Melissa Fetter guest speaker at BHWF

  02-10-2024 22:22 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Story & Photos by Marianne SalzaMelissa Fetter, Owner of Beacon Hill Books & Café, reinvented the delight of shopping at a book store when she opened at 71 Charles Street in the fall of 2022. She began the extensive endeavor after settling in Boston with her husband in 2019, at 60-years-old, with no background in marketing, retail, or book-selling. Now tenacious Fetter is approaching the second anniversary of her business, having sold over 200,000 books.“There is always anot
  
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• 25 Years of Storybook Ball Impact

  02-10-2024 22:22 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to TimesStorybook Ball, Mass General for Children’s (MGfC) signature fundraising event, will celebrate its 25th year of hosting one of the most spectacular nights in Boston on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Throughout the event’s quarter-century history, donor generosity has helped raise more than $38 million to provide extraordinary care and innovative research to children, adolescents and teens in Boston and around the globe.This year&r
  
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• Charles Street Goes Pink for the Ellie Fund

  02-10-2024 22:19 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Over twenty Charles Street Businesses are preparing to turn the business neighborhood storefronts pink this October. From October 10 to 12, participating businesses will join forces for a three-day fundraising and awareness extravaganza filled with enticing promotions, exciting giveaways, and unique experiences.Ellie Fund is the beneficiary of this initiative. The non-profit provides free services and support to Massachusetts residents undergoing breast cancer treatments, so they can focus on he
  
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• Downtown Neighborhood Jewish Hub Kicks off with High Holiday Services and Celebrations at The Boston Synagogue

  02-10-2024 22:18 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Boston Synagogue has become a vibrant Jewish hub in downtown for spiritual as well as educational, musical, and cultural experiences. It welcomes people wherever they might be on their Jewish journey – whether NexGen (under 40), single, couples, families, interfaith and LGBTQ.Need a place to go for the Jewish high holidays?  Rosh Hashanah starts Wednesday evening October 2, with services on Thursday and Friday. The holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur, starts Friday night Oc
  
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• Bicycling is not Safe in Greater Boston

  02-10-2024 22:17 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The tragic death of a 62 year-old bicyclist last week on Memorial Drive has highlighted the lack of safety on our roadways for even experienced cyclists. We ourselves know first-hand how dangerous Metro Boston’s roads can be. We train for triathlons and are fully aware that we are taking our life into our own hands whenever we take off for a ride. Even in places where there are bike lanes on the roads, those bike lanes always just end precipitously — eventually forcing cyclists to na
  
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• Community Open House

  26-09-2024 07:15 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Derek Kouyoumjian Photo
  The Boston Athenaeum held a Community Open House to highlight
  its place as a cultural resource in Boston. Shown is the Ancient Greek
  goddess Athena, who was associated with wisdom and whose name constitutes
  the term Athenaeum, stands Guard in the Bow Room.
  
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• Beacon Hill Civic Association Holds Fall Hill Fest

  26-09-2024 07:14 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Photos by Marianne Salza
  Katherine, Dagny, and Astrid Foushee are joined by many neighbors as they gathered on Mount Vernon Street for the Beacon Hill Civic Association’s Fall HillFest on September 15.
  
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• Boston Area Offers Wide Range of School Offerings  for Children of all Ages

  26-09-2024 07:12 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Times staffA new academic year is just getting underway, but it’s already time for parents and guardians to start thinking about options for next year, and with the Boston area’s wide range of top-notch independent, private, and parochial schools, kids of all ages can find one that well suits them while still staying local.The Advent School, located at 15 Brimmer St. in Boston, is a progressive, Reggio Emilia-inspired elementary school for children ages 4 through Grade 6. Advent s
  
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• BHAC Unanimously Approves Signage for New Charles Street Restaurant

  26-09-2024 07:11 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission  unanimously approved new signage and exterior painting for a new restaurant proposed for the former Bin 26 Enoteca space at the commission’s monthly public hearing held virtually on Thursday, Sept. 19.Babak Bina, one of the partners in the new restaurant called ‘Zurito,’ as well as co-owner of the erstwhile Bin 26, said they intend to install a new double-sided, 30-by-30 inch, wood-carved blade sign for the new business to replace
  
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• Miguel Rosales takes Home Four Top Prizes in New England Fall Flower Show

  26-09-2024 07:07 via beaconhilltimes.com
  As a representative of the Beacon Hill Garden Club, Miguel Rosales won four first-place Blue Ribbons in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s 138th New England Fall Flower Show, which was held on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 and 22, at the Garden at Elm Bank in Wellesley.Rosales took home four top prizes in the Amateur Horticulture Competition, including Foliage Containers – Class 32 – Fern with a Kangaroo Foot Fern; Foliage Containers – Class 33 – Variegated w
  
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• Beacon Hill Village to Host Aging at Home Resource Fair for Older Adults

  26-09-2024 07:07 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Beacon Hill Village, a membership organization that supports older adults to age at home in Boston, is hosting its first annual Aging at Home Resource Fair on Wednesday October 9th, from 3:00p to 5:00p at Suffolk University in the Keches Room of Sargent Hall located at 110 Tremont St. The Fair will be free and open to the public. This Fair is made possible through the generous support of Event Co-Sponsors Always Best Care Senior Services, BAYADA Home Health Care, and My Personal Home Health Care
  
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• We Need to Ban Styrofoam

  26-09-2024 07:06 via beaconhilltimes.com
  While on the subject of harmful chemicals and substances in our environment, we’d like to take the opportunity to commend the efforts of Revere City Councilor Joanne McKenna for ensuring that the city’s ordinance banning the use of single-use styrofoam containers will go into effect on July 1, 2025.The Revere City Council originally passed the ban in 2021, but held off on enforcing it because it was thought it would place a burden on local businesses, which were dealing at that time
  
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• Forever Chemicals are in All of our Bodies

  26-09-2024 07:06 via beaconhilltimes.com
  On top of the recent news that micro-and nanoplastics are in our bodies and in just about every living thing on the planet, a new study published last week has revealed that of the 14,000 known chemicals — commonly referred to as ‘forever chemicals’ because they do not break down in the environment — that are used in food packaging, about 3500 have been found in the human body.Microplastics and forever chemicals, which long have been known to exist in fruits and vegetable
  
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• BHCA Hosts Dinner under the Stars Event

  19-09-2024 14:57 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Shown above, neighbors seat themselves at the table laid out on Mt. Vernon Street.
  Derek Kouyoumjian Photos
  Ramsay and Elisabeth Fretz.
  Massachusetts State Rep. Jay Livingstone
  with his wife Julie.
  
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• Gardening Enthusiasts at Primus Take a Top Prize in Mayor’s Garden Contest

  19-09-2024 14:53 via beaconhilltimes.com
  A returning award winner, Gardening Enthusiasts at Primus again took home the top prize in the Storefront, Organization, or Main Street District category in this year’s 28th annual Mayor’s Garden Contest.Courtesy of The City of Boston
  Gardening Enthusiasts at Primus’ first-prize winning garden in the
  Storefront, Organization, or Main Street District category in the 28th
  annual Mayor’s Garden Contest.
  “The gardeners at Primus Avenue love to be outdoors creating and c
  
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• Beacon Hill Village to Host Aging at Home Resource Fair for Older Adults in October

  19-09-2024 14:50 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesBeacon Hill Village, a membership organization that supports older adults to age at home in Boston, is hosting its first annual Aging at Home Resource Fair on Wednesday October 9th, from 3:00p to 5:00p at Suffolk University in the Keches Room of Sargent Hall located at 110 Tremont St. The Fair will be free and open to the public. This Fair is made possible through the generous support of Event Co-Sponsors Always Best Care Senior Services, BAYADA Home Health Care, and My Perso
  
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• City Outlines Plan for Dartmouth Street Safety and Mobility Project at Virtual Meeting

  19-09-2024 14:49 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The City of Boston Streets Cabinet staff held a virtual public meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 11, to discuss the city’s Dartmouth Street Safety and Mobility Project, which includes plans for a proposed bike lane on Dartmouth Street between Copley Square and the Charles River Esplanade, as well as immediate, short-term changes at the intersection of Dartmouth and Stuart streets.The city intends to create a new two-way, separated bike lane on Dartmouth Street in concert with the repaving of Dar
  
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• TSA Publishes Regulation that Provides Flexibility to Enforce REAL ID Requirements

  19-09-2024 14:48 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would provide federal agencies with necessary flexibility to begin enforcement of the REAL ID regulations on the May 7, 2025, deadline in a manner that takes into account security, operational risk and public impact.This proposed rule seeks to ensure that federal agencies, including TSA, are well positioned to begin enforcing REAL ID requirements on May 7, 2025. The proposed rule does not extend the R
  
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• City Announces ARPA Funding to Benefit First Time Homebuyers and Small Businesses

  19-09-2024 14:48 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesMayor Michelle Wu joined members of the Boston City Council, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH), and the Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion (OEOI), to announce the allocation of a $7 million investment of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to bolster Boston’s neighborhoods in three ways: by (1) helping first time home buyers with down payment assistance, (2) acquiring of market-rate properties to grow affordable
  
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• Old North Church & Historic Site presents Our Dearly Departed: A History of Mourning Jewelry

  19-09-2024 14:47 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Mourning jewelry in Western European (and later, American) culture dates back to the 16th century but gained popularity in the mid-19th century when Queen Victoria mourned the death of her beloved Prince Albert and again when the American Civil War brought huge loss of life. On Tuesday, Oct. 29, join Sarah Nehama, a metalsmith and antique jewelry collector, to explore the history of mourning jewelry. She will discuss the style, iconography, and materials of mourning jewelry (with many visual exa
  
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• Massport to Host Emergency Exercise at Logan Airport

  19-09-2024 14:47 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), alongside several mutual aid partners, will hold an emergency response exercise on Friday, September 20th at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). It will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. For the surrounding communities, please be aware that there will be emergency vehicles from various agencies in the vicinity.This exercise is required every three years by the FAA to test the coordination, communication and response in the event of a major
  
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• Too Many Guns = Too Many Shootings

  19-09-2024 14:46 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The spectre of yet another lone-wolf gunman attempting another assasination of Donald Trump is shocking, but not surprising.Up until the past 50 years, assassinations of public figures in America were carried out by individuals with a political agenda –Abraham Lincoln (John Wilkes Booth), William McKinley (by an avowed political anarchist), Huey Long (by the relative of a political rival), John F. Kennedy (by Lee Harvey Oswald, although his exact motive has never been fully figured out), R
  
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• How Can a State Police Trainee Die in a Boxing Ring?

  19-09-2024 14:46 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The death last week of 25 year-old Mass. State Police (MSP) Trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia in a boxing ring during a “training exercise”  is, in a word, unfathomable.Mr. Delgado-Garcia was less than one month away from graduating and achieving his dream of serving as a Mass. State Trooper.But Mr. Delgado-Garcia’s life was brutally cut short when he literally was beaten to death while training at the State Police Academy. MSP  officials, as usual, are remaining tight-l
  
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• Claire Van Vliet’s Artwork, Handmade Janus Press Books on Display in New Athenaeum Exhibition

  12-09-2024 21:41 via beaconhilltimes.com
   Special to TimesThe Boston Athenaeum has launched its newest exhibition, ‘The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press.’The exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of Van Vliet’s Janus Press by showcasing the artist’s dramatic pulp paintings and prints alongside about two dozen artists’ books from the Athenaeum’s Janus Press collection.Courtesy of Claire Van Vliet
  Claire Van Vliet’s ‘Abiquiu Mesa Blue.’
  Through Dec. 30, Van
  
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• Friends to Unveil Newly Restored Child Fountain on September 17

  12-09-2024 21:40 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Friends of the Public Garden will unveil the newly restored Child Fountain in the Public Garden at a public ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 11:30 a.m., at the park’s Arlington Street Gate.Courtesy of the Friends of the Public GardenThe newly restored Child Fountain in the Public garden is seen ahead of its Sept. 17 ribbon-cutting.
  Following the conclusion of this approximately year-long project – one of three major initiatives undertaken for the Friends’ 50
  
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• Sept. 26 Outreach Event for those Impacted by Recent Expansion of Beacon Hill Historic District

  12-09-2024 21:39 via beaconhilltimes.com
  With the recent expansion of the Beacon Hill Historic District, the city’s Office of Historic Preservation is sponsoring a public outreach event to help inform those impacted by the changes on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, Room 801, which will take place both in-person, as well as virtually.​Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill sponsored by Rep. Jay Livingstone (H.4076, ‘An Act enhancing the Historic Beacon Hill District’)  to expand the boundaries of
  
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• Fiesta en la Plaza Welcomes Latinx Heritage Month Sunday

  12-09-2024 21:39 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the Times This Sunday, Fiesta en la Plaza will welcome Latinx Heritage Month to Boston’s City Hall Plaza and Pavilion with a diverse artistic lineup, announced Ágora Cultural Architects.This second edition of Fiesta en la Plaza will showcase the rich diversity of Boston’s Latin American communities. On Sunday, the first of three days of activities, an artistic program will include a comparsa and performances of folk, pop, and jazz music.“We return to this
  
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