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A Razor Fit for, and Made by, a King
By Elizabeth Gills He sold bottle caps. King Gillette’s family had lost everything in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, so the sons tried to help where they could. Gillette worked as a traveling salesman for William Painter, who had invented what he called a crown cork. With this bottle-top patrons could take home the [...]
Army Barracks Winning the War on Economy
The Mass. Ave. Army Barracks store.Photo by Jane Mackay By Kristen Gemmell When the Army Barracks store made its move from Newbury Street to 173 Massachusetts Avenue a year ago, a dedicated clientele moved along with it. “We didn’t really lose any customers by moving, which is great,” said Richard McMaster, longtime manager for the [...]
Jana Peretz Brings International Flair to Her Fenway Life
By Lorena Aspe “It’s my safe place,” Jana Peretz said. She points to the old, worn-out leather chair she was about to sit in. She chuckles at the irony of the broken chair, practically falling apart and not so safe-looking, as the place where she most feels secure. As she is about to sit down, [...]
Local Agency Helps People Survive the Economic Crisis
By Emily Morgan From hosting a food pantry to helping refinance mortgages, a local nonprofit agency is continuing to stretch out a helping hand to help those in need of short-term and long-term aid. For 47 years, Action for Boston Community Development Inc (ABCD) has promoted self-help for low-income people through its main headquarters in [...]
Garden in the City
By Anna Marden For just $30 a year, you can enjoy nature and relax or grow a vegetable garden right in one of Boston’s urban neighborhoods. The Fenway Garden Society invites new members to plant in the Fenway Victory Gardens, a community garden and city historic landmark in the Back Bay Fens. The society is [...]
Romin Koebel and the CDC
By Carisse Moy Enraptured with urban studies his entire life, Romin Koebel, a retired professor, is plunging deeper still into that world with plans to better the Boston community through his work with the Fenway Community Development Corporation (FCDC). As a board member of the FCDC and part of the board’s Urban Village Committee, Koebel [...]
'Jazzy McNeil Stars as Both Athlete and Student
Former Fenway High School basketball standout Jasmine McNeil ranks nationally among junior-college women andmaintains a 3.1 grade average. Photo by Erin Harper. By Erin Harper Mark Lesczcyk had not heard of Jasmine “Jazzy” McNeil when he attended a Fenway High School women’s basketball game in the spring of 2008. After all, he was there to [...]
From Child Prodigy to Jazz Artist
By Ruth Khowais He’s been playing the guitar for sixteen years, yet he’s only 21. The West Fenway’s Julian Lage picked up a guitar at age 5 and found “an instant connection.” In a recent interview with The Fenway News, Lage, who is originally from San Francisco, said he avoids the term prodigy but that [...]
Lucy Wheelock's Kindergarten College
By Elizabeth Gills She was so tiny that it was said that she could have fit into someone’s pocket. But Lucy Wheelock was large in ideas.Daughter of a minister and educator, Lucy was encouraged to further her limited Vermont schooling. Her father arranged for her to prepare for college at Chauncy Hall, a private school [...]
Fenway News Launches Website 3.0
By Jonathan Kim This newspaper has sometimes had its difficulties. Over the decades, we have increased and decreased the number of pages, sometimes cut the size of distribution, lost members and even missed a few months in the early years. We have also tried twice in the recent past to launch a website. Since its [...]
Print Edition: May 2012
