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• City Sets Virtual Meeting on Planned Improvements to Public Garden Tool House

  22-06-2023 08:37 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The city will sponsor its second virtual meeting on planned improvements to the Public Garden tool house on Wednesday, June 28, at 6 p.m.Home to both the Public Garden’s facilities and the Swan Boat operations, the 642 square-foot structure is is located in the Public Garden along Charles Street, just north of the Edward Everett Hale monument.The Public Garden tool house.
  While historic maps dating back as far as 1866 show a structure at that location, the existing tool house was built in
  
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• Boston Fire Commissioner and Cadets Visit the Boston Athenaeum Great Fire Exhibit

  22-06-2023 08:36 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesOn Wednesday June 14, the Boston Fire Commissioner and Chief of Boston Fire Department Paul F. Burke, along with other Boston Fire Officials and the members of the Inaugural Boston Fire Cadet class, visited the Boston Athenaeum to commemorate the Boston Fire of 1872, by viewing and learning about the Fire through the special exhibit, Revisiting the Ruins: The Great Boston Fire of 1872.BFD cadets tour the Boston Athenaeum’s exhibits of prints, photographs, and written ac
  
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• MGH’s LVC Turns 154

  22-06-2023 08:34 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to TimesThe Massachusetts General Hospital LVC celebrated its 154th year this spring as one of the oldest hospital auxiliaries in the country, providing support in the form of grants to the MGH clinical community.The LVC currently has 80 members who not only volunteer weekly throughout the hospital but also oversee the MGH General Stores and Flower Shops. Proceeds from these shops help fund patient and community programs, services and activities.Jen Brountas, an LVC volunteer who lives i
  
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• Council President Flynn To Host Virtual Veterans Town Hall June 23

  22-06-2023 08:34 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Boston City Council President Ed Flynn will host a virtual Veterans Town Hall this Friday, June 23, at 3 p.m. on Zoom. The Town Hall is organized in light of the City Council’s passage of the amended FY24 budget, which voted 7-5 in favor of cutting over $31 million in public safety services, as well as a $900,000 cut from the Office of Veterans Services. The Veterans Town Hall will focus on listening to the needs of the Boston Veterans community and the challenges they face, walk thro
  
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• Sharon Durkan Earns Sen. Ed Markey’s Endorsement for District 8 City Council

  22-06-2023 08:32 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By the Durkin campaignSharon Durkan, a dedicated community activist, former political staffer for Mayor Wu and former Ward 5 Democratic Committee Chair, earned the endorsement of Sen. Ed Markey in her campaign for the Boston City Council District 8 seat for the special municipal election on Tuesday, July 25. The seat is currently vacant after former Councilor Kenzie Bok resigned to become the Boston Housing Authority Administrator.“Sharon Durkan is both a leader and a neighbor, doing the g
  
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• Wu Cuts Ribbon on City of Boston’s New Exhibit, “Slavery in Boston”

  22-06-2023 08:31 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Mayor Michelle Wu last week cut the ribbon on the City of Boston’s new exhibit, “Slavery in Boston.” This exhibit – located in Faneuil Hall – provides an opportunity to discuss Boston’s role in enslavement and shares the stories of the enslaved and freed people in Boston through research and archaeological artifacts found under Faneuil Hall. The development of the exhibit was led by the City of Boston’s Archaeology Department within the Office of Histori
  
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• BPL Receives $1 Million To Expand LGBTQ+ Resources, Collections, and Programming

  22-06-2023 08:31 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Boston Public Library (BPL) is proud to announce that it has received a $1,000,000 bequest from the late Howard Cooper to dramatically expand its LGBTQ+ resources, collections, and programming.  Cooper, who resided in San Francisco, CA as an adult, grew up in Dorchester and attended Boston Public Schools. He visited the Central Library in Copley Square regularly as a teenager in the 1950s. Cooper named the Boston Public Library Fund as a beneficiary in his e
  
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• Senate Resoundingly Approves Bill for Progressive Tax Relief and Assistance

  22-06-2023 08:30 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Massachusetts Senate approved on Thursday a $590 million Tax Relief bill which delivers support to low- and middle-income earners and chips away at the headwinds that threaten Massachusetts’ competitiveness. Focusing on providing relief to residents across Massachusetts while upholding fiscal responsibility, the Senate’s tax relief package will provide relief to renters, seniors, and parents struggling with high early education costs while also increasing much-needed housing prod
  
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• BHAC Green-Lights Previously Approved Park Street School Infill Addition

  22-06-2023 08:30 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Beacon Hill Architectural unanimously green-lit the Park Street School’s previously approved application to build a three-story infill addition in its courtyard on Brimmer Street during the commission’s monthly public hearing on Thursday, June 15, which took place virtually.Don Mills, the project architect, said the new addition would sit atop the second-floor roof of the building at 67 Brimmer St., with each now floor spanning about 325 square feet. The first story of the new ad
  
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