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  08-04-2021 10:03 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Beacon Hill Garden Club members Leslie Adam, at left, and Alecia Manning ushered in spring by planting the window box and the Charles Street Post Office at the end of March.
  
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• Esplanade Association Holds 20th Annual Meeting

  08-04-2021 09:59 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Esplanade Association marked a milestone via Zoom on Monday, April 5, when the longstanding organization held its 20th annual meeting.Michael Nichols, executive director of the nonprofit that has worked in partnership with the Department of Conservation and Recreation for the past two decades to care for and maintain the park, detailed big changes already planned for it in 2021, including the planned demolition of the Charles River Bistro and a new paint job – and new shade – for
  
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• Acting Mayor Janey Launches Campaign for Four-year Term

  08-04-2021 09:59 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Already sitting in the corner office and being the first African American and woman to lead the City, Acting Mayor Kim Janey released a video at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning to officially announce she would be running for mayor in the September Preliminary Election.Acting Mayor Kim Janey – the former Council President –
  announced on Tuesday that she will officially join the race for
  mayor.She joins five other candidates who have already announced a run for mayor in what will surely be a
  
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• Laura Cunningham, Bids Farewell to the Nichols House Museum

  08-04-2021 09:57 via beaconhilltimes.com
  During the five years she spent with the Nichols House Museum, Laura Cunningham, who stepped down from her role as its Curator of Collections on March 31 to pursue a new employment opportunity, said perhaps what she’ll cherish the most from her experience there was having the opportunity to thoroughly immerse herself in a small museum environment.Laura Cunningham, who stepped
  down as Curator of Collections
  March 31 after five years with
  the Nichols House Museum.“At a small museum lik
  
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• Rep. Aaron Michlewitz Hosts COVID Recovery Virtual Forum

  08-04-2021 09:25 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, recently hosted the third in a series of COVID Recovery Forums. The forum focused on equity within the state’s economic recovery efforts. “When you’d see those maps (charting COVID infections) a lot of the red spots became communities of color quickly,” said Michlewitz. “So now as we’re building this economy back we do we have an opportunity, from the state’s perspective, to keep
  
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• Art Historian and Author, Liana Cheney Returns to Beacon Hill Seminars

  08-04-2021 09:25 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesAuthor and professor Liana De Girolami Cheney, a long-time resident of Beacon Hill, taught more than a dozen popular art history courses for Beacon Hill Seminars (BHS) before retiring to Florida in 2020.  BHS members thought they had lost this esteemed teacher.  But not long after, in response to the pandemic, BHS moved its seminars online.  One unexpected benefit has been that Dr. Cheney is able to continue to share her passion and expertise from her home in F
  
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• MFA Celebrates Return of Spring with Virtual Art in Bloom Exhibit

  08-04-2021 09:24 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesThe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), celebrates the return of spring with a virtual edition of its 45th annual Art in Bloom (Friday, April 30–Monday, May 3), a festival that pairs art with floral interpretations created by 27 New England-area garden clubs, including the Beacon Hill Garden Club.This year’s festival is themed around artworks that tell the stories of women across the Museum’s collection—from images of mothers and motherhood throughout t
  
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• Part One Crime Down 29 Percent

  08-04-2021 09:22 via beaconhilltimes.com
  With the first quarter of ’21 on the books, Area A-1 had seen a 29-percent decrease in Part One crime from last year.According to Boston Police, 390 incidents of Part One crime were reported in the district, which includes Beacon Hill, Chinatown and downtown, between Jan. 1 and April 4 of this year, compared with 549 during the same timeframe in 2020.One homicide was reported in the district this year as opposed to none last year, while the number of rapes and attempted rapes were down nea
  
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• Blackstone’s and KitchenWares Celebrate their One-year Anniversary

  08-04-2021 09:22 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesSome think of April 1 as a day for jokes and pranks, but at Blackstone’s and KitchenWares, they recognize it as their stores’ anniversaries.“April 1, 2006, marked our official start as the third owners of Blackstone’s,” says Jennifer Hill, who originally purchased the store together with her former business partner, Mark Duffield. Fast forward four years and the adventurous Hill, together with her husband Jim, took over the former KitchenArts spa
  
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• North Washington Street Bridge Construction look-ahead through April 17

  08-04-2021 09:21 via beaconhilltimes.com
  This is a brief overview of construction operations and impacts for the North Washington Street Bridge Replacement Project. MassDOT will provide additional notices as needed for high-impact work and changes to traffic configurations beyond those described below.Description of Scheduled Work•Building the piers:*Pier 1 (closest to the North End): sealing and dewatering cofferdam*Pier 2: sealing and dewatering cofferdam*Pier 3: installing rebar to pour concrete footing*Pier 4: V arms formwork
  
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• Beaconhill Architectural Commission

  08-04-2021 09:18 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission will hold a public Zoom hearing on April 15 at 5 p.m.ZOOM: HTTPS://US02WEB.ZOOM.US/J/87626552162
  Subject of the hearing will be applications for Certificates of Design Approval on the agenda below, reviews of architectural violations, and such businesses as may come before the commission, in accordance with Chapter 616 of the Acts of 1955 of the Massachusetts General Law as amended. Applications are available for review during business hours at the office
  
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• Get the Vaccine

  08-04-2021 09:16 via beaconhilltimes.com
  For the vast majority of people, getting a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they are eligible is a no-brainer.COVID-19 not only has a high death rate for older persons and those with underlying health conditions, but it also has been shown to have serious after-effects for young, healthy people who experienced only mild symptoms when they contracted the disease.The ramifications of the health consequences for the so-called COVID long-haulers promises to adversely impact the lives of millions of Ameri
  
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• Royal Family, Common Problems

  08-04-2021 09:15 via beaconhilltimes.com
  On a certain level, it is easy to dismiss the recent interview of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as frivolous and irrelevant to the lives of the rest of us. To most Americans, the concept of a royal family is a joke to begin with, an anachronism of history.On the other hand, there were certain aspects of the interview that made the travails faced by Harry and Meghan all too real — and extremely relevant to the 21st century.The revelation that Meghan contemplated suicide, but received no me
  
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