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Celebrate your holiday waiting on the MBTA

Memorial Day is significant in several ways. It is a time to honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to their country, but it's also the unofficial beginning of summer, and in New England it can be the first long weekend of the year with good weather ...
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Detours, parking restrictions planned for weekend races

Drivers can expect detours and parking restrictions across the city this weekend as thousands of runners take to the streets to finish the last mile of the Boston Marathon, and pay tribute to law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty.
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Two illegal street tree removals prompt Boston officials to issue warning

After two different contractors illegally removed street trees in Boston
South End News

ABCD announces two youth initiatives

SummerWorks Aims for 1,000 Teen Jobs "Youth Engaged in Action" to serve 250 13-year-olds at eight neighborhood sites ABCD announces two youth initiatives ...
South End News

Economic Injury Disaster Loans available to small businesses impacted by the Boston Marathon Bombing

Low-interest economic injury disaster loans are available to Massachusetts small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small aquaculture businesses and most private non-profit organizations affected by the Boston Marathon Bombing on April 15, 2013 ...
South End News

The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum's 22nd Annual Awards Luncheon

On May 3, 2013, more than 325 guests gathered in the Imperial Ballroom at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum’s 22nd annual Awards Luncheon and the exceptional courage of 41 sixth-grade students from Boston and surrounding communities ...
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SJC upholds murder convictions of two men who shot and killed unborn baby on Orange Line train in 2003

The state's highest court today upheld the first-degree murder convictions of two Boston men for a 2003 shooting on an Orange Line train that wounded a pregnant woman and claimed the life of her unborn son ...
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Boston to hold Memorial Day observances across city

Several Memorial Day observances and services are scheduled in the coming days at public parks and cemeteries throughout Boston.
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Cathedral housing development renamed in honor of resident, activist Ruth Barkley

Ruth Barkley spent more than 40 years working to improve the lives of her neighbors at the Cathedral Public Housing Development and of public housing residents throughout Boston ...
Boston Police

Boston Police Investigate Fatal Pedestrian Accident in the area of Beacon Street & Charlesgate West

At about 3:34pm, on Sunday, May 19, 2013, officers from District D-4 (South End) responded to an accident involving a motor vehicle and a female bicyclist ...
Your Town

Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate 9th anniversary in Boston Public Garden

About three dozen supporters of same-sex marriage gathered in the Boston Public Garden recently to mark the ninth anniversary of its legalization in Massachusetts ...
Your Town

The MBTA: ruining weekends since 1897

The first portion of the subway line that would become the MBTA opened more than 115 years ago, and by the standards of that time, it's doing pretty well ...
Friends of the South End Library

Nationally Acclaimed Writer Alice Hoffman Will Read from her Latest Novel, "The Dovekeepers," Tuesday, May 21, at 6:30 PM

Alice Hoffman will visit the South End Library next Tuesday to read from her compelling 2012 novel, The Dovekeepers, which just came out in paperback ...
Eight Streets Neighborhood Assoc.

8-10 Taylor Community Meeting (Rescheduled)

The city is holding a public neighborhood meeting concerning 8-10 Taylor street ...
Eight Streets Neighborhood Assoc.

May business meeting

Our next monthly Eight Streets business meeting will be this Wednesday, May 1st, in the Boston Ballet 5th floor board room (corner of Warren and Clarendon streets) 6:30-7 - Neighborhood Networking ...
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