Health & Environment
Community Newslines
Switcheroo: BPS Lets Arts Academy Stay, Moves Fenway High Bowing to angry students and parents from Boston Latin Academy, the marginally less-prestigious cousin of Boston Latin School, Boston School Superintendant Carol R. Johnson dropped her plan to move the Latin Academy into shuttered Hyde Park High School. That move would have set off a chain [...]
EPA News: International Award Recognizes Successful Ongoing Work to Clean the Charles River
News Release U.S. Environmental Protection Agency New England Regional Office International Award Recognizes Successful Ongoing Work to Clean the Charles River (Boston) – The river in Boston’s backyard, once derided as a lost cause to pollution and visits to a doctor’s office if you fell in, was recently awarded an international prize for cleanup efforts [...]
Tai Chi Classes extended at Symphony Park
Free Tai Chi classes, funded by Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust with the support of Berklee and the Mews Condominium Trust, will be extended for 2 additional weeks. Thanks to the Friends of Symphony Park and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, the additional classes will be held at 9 a.m. on August 18th and [...]
First Smoothie King in Massachusetts Brings Unique Taste to Newbury Street
Grand Opening of New Smoothie King Lifestyle Center Will Offer Sampling and Special Raffle for a Pair of Tickets to Watch Boston’s Favorite Baseball Team Smoothie King, the originator of the nutritional, fruit-based smoothie is opening its new lifestyle center on Newbury Street in Boston on Saturday, April 30. The new store will be the [...]
Neighborhood Newslines – April 2011
Red Sox Unveil Final Fenway Park Improvements On March 16, the Red Sox held a community meeting in the Absolut Clubhouse, next to Fenway Park, to update its neighbors about changes in the ballpark. Larry Cankro, Beth Krudys, and Paul Hanlon represented the team, with Hanlon handling the bulk of the presentation. “This was the [...]
News Notes – March 8
President’s visit leads to parking ban Tuesday in the Fenway by Sara Brown/Boston.com – March 7, 2011 After year of natural disasters, universities in Boston prepare for their own by Alexandros Letsas/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 8, 2011 The 2011 Boston Urban Symposium, hosted by Boston University’s City Planning and Urban Affairs Programs, addressed [...]
News Notes – March 2
Death rate was high for some Beth Israel Deaconess heart patients By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff – March 2, 2011 Massachusetts public health officials are monitoring the heart program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after discovering the hospital had a high death rate in 2009 for patients who had emergency cardiac catheterizations. An analysis [...]
Let’s Move! In the Right Direction for Kids
Posted by Under Secretary Kevin Concannon, USDA Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services on February 11, 2011 It has been one year since First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off her Let’s Move! initiative with the goal to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. The anniversary calls for a time to reflect on its [...]
News Notes – February 3
University evacuates 3 students from Egypt By Colin Young/The Huntington News – 2/03/11 Three students enrolled in the university‘s study abroad program in Cairo, Egypt returned to Boston last night after spending more than a week in the politically unstable country. Danielle Kluger, a middler criminal justice major who was one of three Northeastern students [...]
PHEN In partnership with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Live Webcasts A New PHEN Strategy for Nationwide Education and Awareness Outreach PHEN In partnership with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will host monthly live webcasts as a part of its ‘Rally Against Prostate Cancer.’ The webcasts are a major breakthrough for PHEN efforts towards eliminating the African American prostate cancer disparity, and educating all men [...]