Housing Chief Sheila Dillon joined the Jamaica Plain Development Corporation (JPNDC), The Community Builders, Incorporated (TCB), The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, MassHousing, local elected officials, and residents today to commemorate the Grand Opening of 250 Centre…
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Officials announce new community choice electricity rates
The City of Boston announced new electricity rates through Boston’s Community Choice Electricity (BCCE) program, and encouraged all customers to choose BCCE as their electricity supplier. The new rates will be in effect beginning December 2023 until December 2025 using…
Mayor Wu shares Boston’s winter weather preparations
Mayor Michelle Wu today joined City officials at the Public Works yard on Frontage Road to discuss winter preparations currently underway in the City of Boston and resources available to residents including older adults and individuals experiencing homelessness. “The City…
Parks Department offers free Ultimate disc youth clinics
Special to the Gazette The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is teaming up with coaches from the Boston Ultimate Disc Alliance (BUDA) to offer free co-ed youth Ultimate disc clinics at the Carter Playground Bubble, 709 Columbus Avenue. The clinics…
Op-Ed: Why preventing Diabetes should be a priority at all ages
By Dr. Donna O’Shea More than 96 million Americans, or 1 in 3 adults, live with a potentially life-altering condition – yet many of them are unaware they even have it. That condition is prediabetes, which in up to 70%…
Op-Ed: Bay Staters deserve opportunities to build a better financial future
By State Reps. Jeffrey Rosario Turco and Francisco E. Paulino Whether you grew up in Boston, Brighton, Jamaica Plain, Revere, Winthrop, Lawrence, every community in the Commonwealth values kitchen-table issues; an honest day’s work, safe streets, affordable homes, good schools,…
Pearl Harbor was 82 years agobut has lessons for us today
It was 82 years ago this week that the nation of Japan launched its attack on the United States at the Pearl Harbor Naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The very next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened…
Arborway Yard bus facility discussed at subcommittee hearing
By Michael Coughlin Jr. On Monday, the Arborway Yard subcommittee hosted officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to provide a brief update on plans for the new Arborway bus facility and share a presentation about the better bus…
Author pays tribute to JP’s “permanent resident” Susan Dimock in new book
By Bella Gonzalez Forest Hills Cemetery was bustling on a recent Sunday afternoon, but for an unconventional reason: Susan Wilson, a local author, photographer and historian, celebrated the launch of her newest book, “Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life…
Santana is ready to get to work
By Michael Coughlin Jr. Henry Santana, Boston’s newest City Councilor At-Large elect, looks forward to hitting the ground running in 2024 when he officially takes his place on the City Council. Santana, a 28-year-old who immigrated to Boston as a…