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• A Memorial Day Tradition on the Common Endures

  28-05-2020 08:42 via beaconhilltimes.com
  City of Boston Veteran Services
  Volunteers planted 1,000 American flags overnight to commemorate Memorial Day at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Boston Common. The annual tradition, which dates back to 2010 and is organized Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, typically includes the planting of more than 37,000 flags on the Common to represent every Massachusetts service member who died defending their country since the Revolutionary War. This year, however, far fewer flags were erected
  
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• Artu to Permanently Shutter Charles Street Location May 30

  28-05-2020 08:41 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Artu will permanently close its 89 Charles St. location on Saturday, May 30, making it the first restaurant in the neighborhood to fall casualty during the COVID-19 pandemic.“We wish to thank each and every one of you for your patronage and friendship over our 25-year tenure on Beacon Hill,” reads a posting from the establishment’s ownership on Instagram.  “The journey has been most memorable. From birthdays [and] engagements to anniversaries and more it has been our
  
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• Restoration Work on Shaw 54th Memorial Now Underway

  28-05-2020 08:40 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Work on the $2.8 million facelift of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common, which pays tribute to the first Northern black volunteer infantry unit enlisted to fight in the Civil War, kicked off the last Wednesday, May 20.Courtesy of Friends of the Public Garden
  Civil War re-enactors from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment are seen at the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial  on the Boston Common.The bas-relief memorial, w
  
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• Still Hopeful: Church on the Hill Unsure of When On-site Services Will Resume

  28-05-2020 08:39 via beaconhilltimes.com
  While places of worship have been allowed to reopen under Phase 1 of Gov. Charlie Baker’s four-part plan for Massachusetts, Church on the Hill won’t be holding on-site religious services any time too soon.“We have a little, tiny chapel, and I’d hate for us to be responsible for getting someone sick,” said Rev. Kevin Baxter, pastor of the church at 140 Bowdoin St. “Some churches that are big can follow all the state requirements, but it’s really hard for
  
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• BHAC Approves Application for Renovation of the Athenaeum’s South Balcony

  28-05-2020 08:35 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission approved an application as submitted for the renovation of the Boston Athenaeum’s south balcony during a virtual hearing on Thursday, May 21.The applicant, Matthew Bronski, a principal with the Waltham engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, said the scope of the project includes removing existing waterproofing and slate paving from the balconies at the second- and fifth-floor levels at 10½ Beacon St. facing the Old Granary Burying Gro
  
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• Massachusetts Implements PEUC

  28-05-2020 08:34 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The state announced May 21 that Massachusetts residents who are eligible for the federal CARES Act and qualify for having exhausted their regular unemployment compensation may now receive the new Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).The launch of this program marks the third and final benefit available for the Commonwealth through the CARES Act.PEUC provides up to 13 additional weeks of benefits to an individual who has exhausted all rights to any regular unemployment compensation
  
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• Baker Provides Updates on State’s Response to COVID-19

  28-05-2020 08:34 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Governor Baker held a press conference on Tuesday where he provided some updates on the state’s response to COVID-19.He said that as of Monday, more than 540,000 tests have been performed in Massachusetts, and the state “remains a top 5 player” per capita in the country for testing. He said that they are looking to bring more mobile and site based vendors to the state to increase testing even further.With Phase One of the Commonwealth’s reopening plan now underway, Baker
  
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• Travel at Home with Greatamericantreasures.org

  28-05-2020 08:33 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Katherine Bergholtz The William Hickling Prescott House Museum at 55 Beacon St. is part of a remarkable collection of more than 60 historical properties known as “Great American Treasures” which are featured this month in a new website of the same name. The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America created the Great American Treasures website presenting Society properties. These treasures are spread from one corner of America to the other, and both together and indivi
  
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• Rep. Livingstone Remains Committed to Combatting Food Insecurity

  28-05-2020 08:32 via beaconhilltimes.com
  While State Rep. Jay Livingstone has long been committed to increasing food access in his district and throughout the Commonwealth, he is now more devoted to the cause than ever before as more Massachusetts residents find themselves struggling with food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“Food insecurity is an issue I’ve worked on for several years, and it’s become a much more pressing issue now,” he said. “In January, 9 percent of people [statewide] were food in
  
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• Parks Parcel Priority Plan Survey Now Underway

  28-05-2020 08:31 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is encouraging park users and open space advocates to take part in the City of Boston’s new Parcel Priority Plan (PPP) using an online survey. The survey results will be used in developing the open space acquisition Parcel Priority Plan, and the City of Boston encourages residents from every neighborhood to share their feedback.Enhancing and enlarging Boston’s network of resilient public open space is critical, and the Parcel Priority Plan w
  
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• Beacon Hill Civic Association Hold 98th Annual Meeting

  28-05-2020 08:31 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Remarks by Robert A. Whitney, PresidentGood evening and welcome to our first ever virtual Annual Meeting!  I’m Rob Whitney, the President of the Beacon Hill Civic Association, and it is my great honor to be with all of you this evening in celebration of our historic organization but also in sober reflection on the extreme suffering and difficulties that our neighbors and friends on Beacon Hill – as well as people everywhere – are facing right now. As we as an organiza
  
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• Arts Emerson Cancels Its Summer Engagement of Drumfolk

  28-05-2020 08:30 via beaconhilltimes.com
  ArtsEmerson is cancelling its Summer Special engagement, Step Afrika!’s Drumfolk, which was scheduled to play the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre July 22 – August 01, 2020.“The City of Boston has now cancelled summer events and have asked everyone else to do the same,” says ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower. “Since the beginning of this health ordeal, every decision we have made has been to protect the health of the patrons, staff, and artists that make up t
  
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