gardening
RCC Garden Work Party – 10/10/10 at 10:10 a.m.
Hello All, We will have our work party day on 10/10/10 at 10:10 am. Please bring your friends and water bottle with you. Location : RCC Garden # 2 To do list: Tools: RCC Facilities – Mark Plants and bulbs for planting: RCC Garden- Nasreen Food (Potluck): Jon Ball, Nasreen and …… Gloves: Nasreen Trash [...]
News Notes – August 2
A vision born at MIT will ride last space shuttle – One man’s idea comes to fruition By Carolyn Y. Johnson – Globe Staff / August 2, 2010 CAMBRIDGE — In 1994, Nobel laureate Samuel C.C. Ting began to plan an ambitious experiment: launching a powerful instrument into space that could detect particles left over [...]
News Notes – July 31
A Sin and a Shame By BOB HERBERT/NYT Op-Ed Columnist – July 30, 2010 The treatment of workers by American corporations has been worse — far more treacherous — than most of the population realizes. There was no need for so many men and women to be forced out of their jobs in the downturn [...]
News Notes – January 20
Robert B. Parker, the Prolific Writer Who Created Spenser, Is Dead at 77By BRUCE WEBER/NYT – January 20, 2010 Robert B. Parker, the best-selling mystery writer who created Spenser, a tough, glib Boston private detective who was the hero of nearly 40 novels, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 77. The [...]
Garden Society Hopes Translating Documents Will Keep Membership Growing
By Sarah Friedman The Fenway Garden Society received a $1,000 grant from the Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust last year to translate important Garden Society documents into different languages. The Garden Society’s initial membership application, a two-page form that provides the applicant’s basic information and how the applicant plans to contribute to the Garden Society, [...]
Police in Fens Cause Concern for Gay Rights
Police Patrolling the Agassiz RoadSidewalk – photo by Steve Wolf by Meena Ramakrishnan Last month, police increased patrols in the Fens after residents and gardeners complained about finding condoms, needles and trash in the Victory Gardens. Gardeners have been pleased with the response, but some argue that the police presence has jeopardized gay rights by [...]
We Could Use Vacant Lots More Creatively
BY DAVID HOLTZMAN With the economy at a low point, neighborhoods from the Fenway to Allston to Downtown Crossing are dealing with large numbers of lots that sit waiting for someone to find the money to build on them. Unlike some urban places, where vacant lots breed crime and weeds, in the West Fens these [...]
Letter from City Councilor Mike Ross
The following is a message to constituents sent out by Councilor Ross’s office late last week: Friends, Summer went by fast and fall is nearly upon us. Students are back in Boston, public schools have been in class for nearly a month, and election season is in full swing. Here’s what’s going on in the [...]
FensFest Survives Saturday Downpour; Flourishes on Sunday
Attendees at the FensFest raffle drawing. Image by Peggy Prentice by Tracey Cusick What a difference a day makes. Due to torrential rain, Fensfest was postponed one day. What a good decision that was! Sunday, September 13th was a glorious summer day: bright blue sky and sun, neither too hot nor too cool. Hundreds of [...]
Letter – Mike Ross on Police Patrols in Victory Gardens
Fenway phragmites. Image from www.pinebank.org The following letter from City Council President Mike Ross is also posted at Bay Windows. Over the last few weeks, a serious issue has come up in a part of the community I represent: increased police patrols in the Fenway Victory Gardens. It has not been an easy issue. It [...]