JP Centre/South Main Streets is grateful for a grant from the Boston Foundation for $1000, from the donor-advised Shawkemo Fund, to assist with their work during the COVID-19 crisis and BLM movement. JP CSMS’ work has included the distribution of…
The Falmouth Road Race Goes on, in Newton: A Family Affair
By Taylor Lord At 5:15 each morning, Michael Sack, age 70, laces up his running shoes outside a rental house in Jamaica Plain. He sets out at a self-described “slow pace,” snaking around Jamaica Pond and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.…
America Is Circling The Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated…
Car Repossessions Are on the Rise
Although most of the attention of the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the evictions and foreclosures facing millions of out-of-work Americans, the number of repossessions of motor vehicles because of loan defaults is starting…
Op-Ed: Every American Has Troubles
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Everybody has troubles. If you don’t believe it then ask any American living in the year 2020. Most of us are accustomed to having troubles occasionally. Some have more than others. Some people think that “some…
Letters
Hyde Square Task Force: Please Don’t Betray the Community Dear Editor: I am writing as a community leader about your article in the July 24, edition, (“Hyde Square Task Force to sell Blessed Sacrament Church building”) When I moved in…