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• Nichols House Museum’s Annual Holiday House Tour Returns

  27-12-2025 06:51 via beaconhilltimes.com
  A group of friends enjoy the Nichols House Museum’s annual Holiday House Tour on Dec. 14.
  Holiday decorations at the Nichols House donated by Rouvalis Flowers and Gardens.
  
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• Vibrant Array of Talent Headed to City Hall Plaza and Beyond for First Night Boston

  27-12-2025 06:49 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesFirst Night Boston is proud to announce its full schedule of performances for New Year’s Eve, which will fill City Hall Plaza and surrounding venues in the hours leading up to 2026. Musicians, performers, and artists will perform in Boston’s downtown, with the stage, lights, and ice in City Hall Plaza serving as the event’s centerpiece. The latest schedule is included in this release, and all events are free for all.Festivities for the 50th First Night Bosto
  
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• Fundraising Campaign Underway to Raise Funds for Improvements to David Mugar Way

  27-12-2025 06:49 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Dan MurphyA  small nonprofit organization, Friends of David Mugar Way, is now soliciting donations from abutters, local businesses, and other nonprofit groups with the goal of raising $350,000 to landscape and maintain the roadway located between Arlington and Beacon streets.Joyce Tallent, a longtime Back Bay resident and president of Friends of David Mugar Way, recalled in an email to this reporter how some time ago, she was “disturbed by the rundown condition” of the David
  
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• Wu Hosts the First Annual Scaled Impact Celebration

  27-12-2025 06:48 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesMayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston’s Department of Supplier Diversity hosted the first annual Scaled Impact Celebration. This event, which took place at Faneuil Hall, highlighted the important progress the City of Boston is making towards building a more inclusive economy leveraging procurement opportunities. Scaled Impact celebrated five departments committed to equity in contracting and the 27 graduates of the Supplying Capital and Leveraging Education (SCALE) p
  
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• City of Boston and Public Health Commission Warn Residents of a Significant Increase in Flu Cases

  27-12-2025 06:47 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesThe City of Boston and Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) are informing residents that flu cases are surging earlier this year than last year, with a recent increase of 114% in reported cases. Flu related emergency department visits also increased 44% in that same period of time. The rate of infection is increasing most rapidly among children, with those under age five seeing an 83% increase and those ages 5–17 experiencing a 217% increase. This uptick in flu cases
  
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• Boston Harbor Now Signs Memorandum of Understanding with City Formalizing Harborwalk Role

  27-12-2025 06:47 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesBoston Harbor Now – the leading organization advocating for a vibrant, accessible, and resilient waterfront, harbor, and islands – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston formalizing its role as a nonprofit steward of the 43-mile Harborwalk and harbor-wide advocacy organization.“Boston Harbor Now has played a critical role in preserving, promoting and enhancing Boston’s harbor and Harborwalk’’ said Brian
  
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• Winter Weather Advisory: Keep Animals Safe and Warm this Winter 

  27-12-2025 06:46 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesWith winter—and low temperatures—upon us, it’s important to think about how we’ll keep all our family members safe, warm, and healthy, including the four-legged ones. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the nation’s leading legal advocacy organization for animals, has tips for how you can make sure your companion animals stay safe even in the worst weather winter has to offer. Dogs, cats, and other companion animals are not equipped to han
  
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• Stop & Shop to Help Feed 2,000 Boston Students during the Two-week Holiday Break

  27-12-2025 06:46 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Special to the TimesStop & Shop is partnering with the YMCA of Greater Boston on a special holiday food distribution to ensure Boston students have access to nutritious meals during the extended two-week holiday break. 70% of Boston Public School (BPS) students are characterized as low income and depend on free school breakfast and lunch programs, but can be left without consistent access to food during extended school closures. To help bridge the gap for these families in need, the Stop &am
  
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• A Correction to Our  “MAHA moms” Editorial

  27-12-2025 06:44 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Two weeks ago in an editorial under the headline, “MAHA moms are right about toxic waste,” we discussed a petition that some of the members of the MAHA movement had sent to President Donald Trump urging him to fire Lee Zeldin, his EPA administrator, because of Zeldin’s recent directives that will make it easier for the production and use of harmful chemicals that threaten to contaminate our air, food, and water.In that editorial we further wrote: “Also supporting the peti
  
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