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• Chestnuts Friends Over Fifty Keeping Busy

  27-04-2023 13:13 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Chestnuts Friends Over Fifty recently gathered at a member’s home on Joy Street on Beacon Hill.
  From left to right are members Genean Stec, Jin Brown, Wendy Oleksiak, Jeanne Jepsen, Cindy Sullivan,
  Paige Lescure, Elizabeth Angelino, and Patricia Butler (Not pictured: Martha McAllister.) This was a
  “Chestnuts Small Spots” event, which gathers a smaller group of between six and 12 women for more intimate conversations. The Chestnuts Friends Over Fifty is a social group that
  
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• Henry Santana Makes Bid for City Councilor At-Large

  27-04-2023 13:12 via beaconhilltimes.com
  A familiar face around City Hall over the past few years, Henry Santana will be among the candidates for City Councilor at-Large this fall.Santana, 27, who serves as the city’s Director of the Office of Civic Organizing, was born in Bani, Dominican Republic. He immigrated to the U.S. with his family at age 3 and moved into public housing in the Alice Taylor Boston Housing Authority apartments in Mission Hill, the neighborhood where his parents still live today. “I’m a product o
  
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• Climate Activists Take Responsivity for Deflating Tires on SUVs in the Neighborhood

  27-04-2023 13:11 via beaconhilltimes.com
  A group of climate activists with global ties has claimed responsibility for deflating the tires of 43 cars overnight on Wednesday, April 19, on Beacon Hill.According to Boston Police,  an officer responded on Thursday, April 20, to series of vandalisms reported in the area of Mt. Vernon Street. Multiple victims approached the officer at this time and explained to him that the air had been let out of their tires. A  piece of paper was placed on their respective windshields, said witnes
  
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• Architectural Commission Approves Window Signage for Joy Street Record Store

  27-04-2023 13:11 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission unanimously approved an application for already installed window signage at a new Joy Street record store during the commission’s monthly public hearing on Thursday, April 20.Vas Kochura, co-owner of the Music Research Library, located at the corner of Joy and Myrtle streets at 42 Joy St., was on hand to present the application for the existing signage comprising four, removable vinyl decals on four plate glass windows, each measuring 30-by-32 inche
  
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• Wu Announces Funding To Support Small Businesses

  27-04-2023 13:07 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesMayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH) last week announced that the City of Boston awarded the first grants from the previously announced Affordable Commercial Assistance Fund (ACAF) to make commercial rents more accessible to small businesses in Boston impacted by the pandemic. The first awards will subsidize rent for Jean Appolon Expressions, a Haitian dance company in Roxbury, and for Words as Worlds Bookstore in Dorchester. In August 2022, th
  
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• Wu Announces Registration for BCYF Teen Summer Programming

  27-04-2023 13:02 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesMayor Michelle Wu and Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) announced that registration is open for a variety of summer teen programs. Building on Mayor Wu’s commitment to make Boston the best city in the country to raise a family, these programs foster youth employment and life skills while providing youth with fun summer activities. Boston teens can register now for the BCYF Snap Shot photography program through the City of Boston’s Summer Jobs Program,
  
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• Wu Announces Expansion of Curbside Food Waste Collection

  27-04-2023 12:55 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the Times In celebration of Earth Day (April 22) and building on her commitment to make Boston a greener and more sustainable city, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Public Works Department announced the expansion of the food waste curbside collection program, increasing from its current capacity servicing 10,000 households to 30,000. Since launching in August 2022, the program has allowed residents to conveniently dispose of their household food waste, while also reducing the City&rsquo
  
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• Training Tips and Tricks From Dog Training Elite

  27-04-2023 12:54 via beaconhilltimes.com
  April 30 is National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day and although it is exciting to give a shelter pup a much needed furever home, it is important to consider how you can help your furry friend adapt to their new environment. Jason Spring, owner of Dog Training Elite Boston, has offered up his expertise to help families like yours plan for this important transition for your adopted pup.Firstly, Spring recommends you map out a routine ahead of time. This step involves planning who will be in charge of wa
  
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• Antisemitism Has No Place In Our Society

  27-04-2023 12:53 via beaconhilltimes.com
  As we were reading about the federal court trial that is getting underway this week of the 50 year-old Pennsylvania man charged with fatally shooting 11 people and wounding six at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, which was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, we at first felt a sense of irony — which then turned to sadness — and finally into anger.Irony, because this miscreant’s trial follows Holocaust Remembrance Week, which was observed last week (Holocaust Rememb
  
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