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Military Training Exercises to Take Place Around Boston
From the Mayor’s Office: Joint federal military training exercises will take place within and around the Boston area between July 26th and August 5th. Military personnel will conduct training exercises to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements. Helicopters will be [...]
News Notes – February 15
How’s Obama doing so far? Greg St.Martin/news@Northeastern – February 15, 2011 In his first term, President Obama has faced an array of challenges — from high unemployment and his controversial health care bill, to foreign policy issues involving countries such as China and Egypt. Critical topics such as these were the crux of an engaging [...]
News Notes – December 1
Berklee retunes plans for dorms By Thomas Grillo/Boston Herald – December 1, 2010 Berklee College of Music is moving ahead with plans for a 16-story, mixed-use building at 168 Massachusetts Ave. that would house a 350-student dorm, increasing the school’s on-campus housing capacity to 1,200. The school hopes to start construction on the $65 million, [...]
News Notes – September 24
Children’s Hospital gets help from Kohl’s Globe Staff – September 24, 2010 Children’s Hospital Boston said that the Kohl’s department store chain helped it raise $458,000 for a hospital program that seeks to reduce childhood obesity in the area’s lower income families. The donations were collected from Kohl’s stores in the Boston area, Children’s Hospital [...]
NEU Campus Cop Saves Life on St. Stephen St.
by James Chiavelli On duty over the Labor Day weekend, Northeastern police Detective Jonathan Boyd was directing traffic in the Fenway during student move-in when a motorist flagged him down. It was a moment that saved a Boston resident’s life. That afternoon of Sept. 5, the driver pointed Boyd to a 68-year-old man on St. [...]
News Notes – August 30
Students stranded by off-campus housing By Natalie Sherman/Boston Herald – August 30, 2010 For Boston, a city with a rental rate about twice the national average, the harried mess of the massive Sept. 1 college lease turnover is practically an annual tradition. But students say the tight Sept. 1 deadline creates more problems than just [...]
BPD, BHA Cooperate to Clean Up Cathedral Development
District 4 of the Boston Police Department is looking for volunteers to help in a one-day cleanup of the Cathedral Development in the South End. “Cathedral Shines,” taking its motivation from the “Boston Shines” program in which volunteers help to “deep clean” a neighborhood in conjunction with City workers, plans for this event to take [...]
News Notes – May 20
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. More anniversaries. Parents hope for clues in college student’s slaying By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff – May 20, 2010 On the second anniversary of the death of Rebecca Payne, her parents plan to visit the Mission Hill [...]
News Notes – May 19
1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol. More anniversaries. Council President Ross threatens to reject fire arbitration award By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff – May 19, 2010 City Council President Michael P. Ross today threatened to reject the firefighters’ arbitration award unless the union makes “meaningful concessions” to reduce the cost. “If they [...]
News Notes – May 11
1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage. More anniversaries. Woman mauled by chimp is evaluated at Brigham By Elizabeth Cooney – Globe Correspondent / May 11, 2010 A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee last year arrived at a Boston hospital yesterday morning [...]