Community journalism

Kitchen cabinets play an important part in decoration of kitchen

By johnbrad - 7/29/10 - 5:40 am

Everyone wants to have a neat, clean and organized kitchen. Discount Kitchen cabinets play an important role in doing so, as they can store many things. The very basic purpose of “kitchen cabinets” is their purpose of storage. Also, they give a decent look to your kitchen. There is variety of cabinets available in market. They differ in style, design and color from each other. Many people don’t concentrate on kitchen while decorating home, although kitchen is one of the important rooms in your house. Read more

Stabbing this morning in the Leather District

By jikamens - 7/9/10 - 8:39 am

Stabbing this morning on Beach Street in the Leather District.

7 Sugarman Partners named Best Lawyers in America

By KWhit317 - 7/7/10 - 11:38 am

Seven Partners from Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C. have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and are featured in the Boston’s Best Lawyers 2010 Edition, a supplement to the Boston Globe. This year’s supplement included a feature article “2010 LAWYERS OF THE YEAR, Neil Sugarman “.

The list of attorneys represented in Boston’s Best Lawyers, a guide to legal representation in the Greater Boston area, is excerpted from the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, an exhaustive survey in which the nation’s top lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers. The 2010 edition is based on more than 2.8 million evaluations and lawyers are chosen for inclusion based only on a vote of their peers. Read more

New Memory Support Assisted Living Facility Opens in S. Boston

By KWhit317 - 7/6/10 - 11:56 am

Senior Living Residences (SLR), a Boston-based assisted living company, has announced the opening of Compass on the Bay, a state-of-the-art free-standing Memory Support Assisted Living community located in Boston. This new community, formerly The BayView Assisted Living, is SLR’s flagship Alzheimer’s care community in which the company has fully implemented its “Compass Memory Support®” program- research-based treatment of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in the residential-style assisted living setting.
Compass on the Bay, located overlooking Carson Beach with views of the JFK Presidential Library, has just undergone a $3 million renovation which created new indoor and outdoor living spaces and a new front exterior. The community now offers a state-of-the-art living environment for seniors with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Read more

Boston considers rise in parking fines

By anon - 6/15/10 - 10:25 am

The Menino administration proposed a hike in parking fines yesterday across most of the city, a move officials say could generate an additional $600,000 in annual revenue and could deter people from impeding traffic flow.

Transportation Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin testified before the City Council’s Committee on Government Operations that current parking fines have been ineffective in reducing the number of parking violations over the past few years.

The proposal would increase parking fines from $15 to $25 in what the Transportation Department calls Zone B, which includes Dorchester, Roxbury, East Boston, South Boston, the Fenway, Mattapan, Roslindale, and Hyde Park.

“Fifteen dollars is not sending the right message,’’ said Tinlin. “We are hoping that these increases will send a message and change driver behavior.’’

In 2009 alone, the city issued 23,000 no-parking tickets and 79,000 tickets for overstaying time limits in Zone B, Tinlin said.

Parking fines in Zone A — which includes downtown, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, and Charlestown — will remain at $55 for no-parking zones and $25 for parking spaces with time limits. Read more

Roslindale Community Center Starts Wish List

By dmk - 6/8/10 - 2:11 pm

With a multi-million dollar renovation starting to show its age, the Roslindale Community Center has started a "wish list" of various items and creature features that will make the facility a bit brighter and more accommodating to those that use it.

The community center operates as a partnership between the City of Boston (Boston Center For Youth and Families - BCYF) which owns and operates the building, and a community-based non-profit in residence that operates a day care service and various in house programming. The non-profit acts as the voice of the Roslindale Community in the center's operation.

In March of this year torrential rains resulted in the community center building experiencing water damage from above (a roof leak) and from below, when storm drains in Roslindale Square backed up resulting in a 6-8 inch flood in the basement prompting a need to replace some furnishings.

The center is also in need of adding to its capacity to address youth and adult programming, and also to facilitate access to numerous community-based organizations that use the facility as a meeting place. Read more

For the small-time news west of Boston, try the Westminster Vine

By ESun - 6/3/10 - 6:47 pm

I've recently come across a great example of small-town journalism and wanted to post to a wider audience. The "Westminster Vine" is an online newsletter managed by Jennifer Shenk with numerous local contributors. My favorite section of the Vine is a column aka blog called "Musings of a Retired Country Gentleman." With frequent references to Seinfeld and Law and Order as well as detailed descriptions of town benefits and opinions on highway regulations and trash pickup, it is not to be overlooked.

Boston’s triple bottom line

By civilrectitude - 6/3/10 - 12:42 pm

In early 2010 Sweden announced that its biomass energy outpaced its use of oil. Sweden now gets about 31.7 percent of its energy from biomass. The Swedish Energy Agency’s mission is to "promote the development of Sweden’s energy system so that it will become ecologically and economically sustainable." Boston’s Environmental Services lists its mission as to "preserve and enhance the resources of our built and natural environment and to promote affordable, efficient, reliable and safe energy systems for Boston residents" - not too different from Sweden’s Energy Agency. This suggests that we have the potential to meet similar goals sooner than what we are in pursuit of by 2050. The difference is that the political will to make the changes is often the greatest hurdle. Read more

Car meets minivan. Minivan bowled over.

By oddjob60 - 6/3/10 - 7:51 am

Looks like the intersection of Commonwealth Ave. and Clarendon St. will be closed for a bit. This was the scene at 7:30.

The crash is on the inbound side of Comm. Ave., which is closed from Dartmouth to Berkeley. Outbound traffic seems to be moving OK. Clarendon is closed from the Comm. Ave. mall to Newbury Street.

Watch the entries for the Dorchester Youth Council's Anti-Littering PSA video contest

By Gabriel Fishman - 5/27/10 - 5:46 pm

The Dorchester Youth Council asked neighborhood youth groups to make video Public Service Announcements to help their peers become more aware of the littering problem in the community. Here are some of the entries.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I mentored the BCYF Grove Hall Community Center team)