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• Friends of the Public Garden Plant 19 New Trees in Its Three Parks

  16-07-2023 11:15 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Friends of the Public Garden recently planted a total of 19 new trees in the three parks the group stewards in partnership with the state – the Boston Common, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, and the Public  Garden. Among them are nine trees on the Common, including four varieties of oak (a pine oak, a red oak, two scarlet oaks, and a white oak); two American Basswoods; and two American Hophornbeams. On the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, the five new trees include a Weeping White Pine, a
  
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• Local Hiker Off for a Three-Day Fundraising Trek

  16-07-2023 11:14 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesOn July 14, Elizabeth D’Angeli of Beacon Hill will board a bus with more than 30 other women and head to the White Mountains in New Hampshire for a three-day hike to benefit Stone House.  Wilderness Heals is an all women pledge hike through New Hampshire’s White Mountains that builds and engages a community of supporters to raise money for Stone House families and individuals.
  Shown at the practice hike in early June are (left to right) Isa Dunkel,
  
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• Healey Recommends Appointment of Everett, As Suffolk Register of Probate and Family Court

  16-07-2023 11:13 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesGovernor Maura T. Healey announced that she is recommending Stephanie L. Everett, Esq. for appointment as Suffolk Register of Probate and Family Court. Everett is currently the Executive Director of the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency for the City of Boston and, through her legal career, has represented families with cases before the Probate and Family Court. She would be the first Black person to serve as Suffolk Register o
  
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• Folio Restaurant Set To Open Next Month in Athenaeum

  16-07-2023 11:12 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The Boston Athenaeum’s eagerly awaited restaurant, Folio is expected to open sometime in August, said Julie Corwin, the Athenaeum’s marketing and brand leader.“Guests visit Folio at Boston Athenaeum to enjoy made-to-order shareable plates, discover new and old-world wines, and sip craft cocktails in a European-inspired setting,” Corwin wrote in an email.The 1,180 square foot establishment, which is modeled after a European bistro, will seat 40 and be located on the ground
  
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• Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness

  16-07-2023 11:12 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Marianne SalzaJoy originates within us in Running Subway’s educational exhibition, “Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness,” on display in its North American premiere at the Back Bay Hub. Preserved, human specimens and organs called plastinates, as well as interactive screens intrigue visitors, inviting them to learn how the emotion of happiness can influence the human body. “’Body Worlds’ is an exhibition about life and helping people understand what makes
  
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• Proposed Back Bay Bike Lanes Now at Center of Discord Between City and Community

  16-07-2023 11:11 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Separated bike lanes proposed for the Back Bay, including one on Berkley Street, are now at the center of a heated debate between the city and community members, including some who have felt blindsided by the city’s rollout of the plan.“I think that the city has come out with a fully baked solution without getting input from people in the neighborhood, so rather than saying there are several alternatives one could pursue and asking, they come across as telling,” Elliott Laffer,
  
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• Serving the Community Through Food

  16-07-2023 11:10 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Michael Coughlin Jr.Community Servings, a non-profit organization based out of Jamaica Plain, has been and continues to be at the forefront of serving communities throughout Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island through programs encompassing food. The organization, founded in 1990, began by providing hot meals to folks from Dorchester and Roxbury with HIV and AIDS. Over time, the program has expanded to providing medically-tailored meals to those throughout Massachusetts and parts of Rhode
  
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• Progressive Democrats Need To Get Real

  16-07-2023 11:10 via beaconhilltimes.com
  The opposition by some progressive Democrats to President Joe Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine is yet another indication of how out-of-touch with reality they can be on certain issues. To be sure, the use of cluster bombs can have many drawbacks, the most significant being that a certain percentage of the bomblets remain unexploded on the battlefield, thereby creating a hazard that remains long after the fighting is over. However, when compared to the horrors being wrought
  
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• Where Is That Russian “Rebel” Army?

  16-07-2023 11:09 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Two weeks ago, the news headlines were all about the supposed attempted coup by Yevgheny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, who reportedly was marching his 8000 man army to Moscow. But since then, both he and his army have all but disappeared. Well, maybe we’ve been watching too many of those mini-series shows on Netflix and the other streaming channels, but we hope that U.S. intelligence agencies are tracking this guy and his army — because it wouldn’t surprise us if Put
  
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