In July, 17-year-old home-schooled rising senior, Beatriz “Bea†Maria Holz-bach rose up the ranks of the Boston Civil Air Patrol, when she earned the Billy Mitchell Award, taking her from First Sergeant (lead cadet staff position) to Cadet Deputy Commander…
Month: August 2020
Residents Urged to Follow COVID-19 Prevention Guidance Following Rise in Cases
Special to the Transcript Town Manager Austin Faison and Public Health Director Meredith Hurley are urging residents to follow COVID-19 prevention guidance from local, state and federal public health officials following a recent uptick in positive cases. On Wednesday, the…
BHCC Receives $250,000 Grant from JPMorgan Chase Focusing on Career Pathways
With a generous $250,000 investment from JPMorgan Chase, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) launched the Career Pathways Impact Project (CPIP) this past year. CPIP seeks to equip traditionally underserved students with the tangible skills required to navigate the labor market,…
Winthrop Residents to Participate in Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk
Five residents from Winthrop will choose their own route on October 4th for the annual Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai. Participants are encouraged to walk wherever they choose: around their neighborhood, a local hiking trail, a treadmill,…
Northeast Metro Tech Announces Fall Reopening Plan
Superintendent David DiBarri announces that students will follow a hybrid teaching model this fall for the start of the 2020-21 school year. The reopening plans combines recommendations and guidelines from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for all…
As Primary Approaches, Markey Campaign Sees Tsunami of Grassroots Contributions
With two weeks to go before the final day to vote in the primary, the Ed Markey for U.S. Senate campaign is reporting $1.84 million in donations in the period from July 1 to Monday. The campaign received 38,697 individual…
RMV Announces 2020 Low Plate Lottery
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has announced that applications for the 2020 Low Number Plate Lottery are now being accepted online at Mass.Gov/RMV using the Online Service Center. Applicants must apply by September 6 and, if selected for a low number…
Police Blotter 08-20-2020
Monday, August 3 0825: An officer responded to a disturbance between neighbors. The officer informed the parties that this is a civil matter. 0826: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Washington Ave. after a caller reported that the MV…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will fail. Trump’s…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…