Boston City Council did not pass, nor discuss, a cease-fire resolution during Wednesday’s meeting, spurring questions as neighboring cities pass resolutions while Boston stays silent.
Leaders, local business owners and volunteers spoke at an event on Sunday hosted by the Freerange Market, owned by Cenk Emre. The Medford-based market turned collection site is responsible for donating over five million dollars and ten truckloads of supplies to relief efforts in Turkey and Syria.
The immigrants, blue-collar workers and middle-class families that make up Somerville are vital to Greater Boston’s dynamic culture, and deserve to know that the City’s development won’t happen at their expense.
The City of Boston, in partnership with textile collection company Helpsy, has added 10 textile recycling drop boxes across various neighborhoods to work toward its goal of becoming a “zero-waste city.”
The “99 Faces Project” is an exhibit that shows people living with bipolar disease, schizophrenia and friends and relatives of people with mental illnesses.
Monica Kang stood in front of professors and students alike Wednesday and told the students, in particular, to relax: bad grades won’t end a career. She discussed her new book, “Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire, and Thrive at Work" and explained embracing creativity encourages self-discovery.
Starting this summer, the Green Line is going to look a little different. The first of 30 new Green Line cars has arrived in Newton for testing, a major step in the process of expanding Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority service north beyond what will be a relocated Lechmere Station, where it currently ends, to Medford. The new cars will be introduced into the system starting in July, even though the new extension won’t open for several more years.
So long as the MBTA’s latest initiative goes according to plan, by 2020, the way people pay for public transportation in Boston will be entirely revolutionized.
In a meeting on Monday, the Massachusetts...
