The annual St. Columbkille Summer Program at Boston College has attracted a record number of campers to the University, where they swim and play, do arts and crafts and even put in a few hours of studying every day. An all-time high enrollment of 135 boys and girls, ages 3 to 14, are participating in the camp, which is open to St. Columbkille School students and other children in the community. The program, now in its fifth year, has gradually expanded from two weeks on campus to eight weeks. Pictured, Boston College student Kathy Dickerson reads to campers in the St. Columbkille Summer Program at the University. Photo: Sean Smith
Parents and students were left reeling over last month’s announcement that the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) was unable to raise enough money to issue student loans for the fall semester.
In response to the news, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Boston School Committee and Superintendent Carol R. Johnson recently announced that Boston Public Schools will host workshops to help recent high school graduates seek financial aid for college. [read more]
Inventor Chuck Donaldson shows off his latest prototype of his the kite power system. Donaldson hopes his invention will will help power the West Roxbury Educational Complex and the VA hospital.
Scott Wachtler 14.AUG.08
When Chuck Donaldson was 10, he used to take a seat from an old swing set and hook it up to the crank arm of a wind powered water pump that ran in the field across the road from his home in Ohio.
As he bobbed up and down about one foot off the ground he would daydream about how he could harness the wind’s energy to cure the world’s problems. [read more]
The North End's oldest continuously running Italian festival, the Fisherman's Feast takes place this year on Aug. 14-17. Continuing the Sciaccan fisherman's tradition since 1911, the festival begins with the procession of La Madonna Del Soccorso Di Sciacca to the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park to bless the Boston fishing waters on Thursday Aug. 14, 7 p.m. The famous "Flight of the Angel," will take place Sunday, Aug. 17 at 8 p.m. [read more]
Recently, the Boston Public Health Commission urged residents not to patronize unlicensed body artists who perform tattooing and piercing, after receiving several complaints recently of individuals operating illegally.
"We have shut down one operating illegally recently, in Boston," said BPHC Director of Special Projects Thomas Plant. "We get reports and we’re constantly doing surveillance work." [read more]
It’s more intense than soccer, more fast-paced than football and uses elements of basketball. In fact it’s a combination of all three. It’s Gaelic Football and if the organizers of a new clinic for the sport get their way, boys and girls all over Boston will soon be clamoring for the sport. [read more]
The road to the Little League World Series ended on Thursday night for the Parkway National team, as the local squad fell to Manchester, New Hampshire by a score of 5-2.
That score as almost broken in a suspenseful final inning. In the top of the sixth, Hector Diaz gave a valiant at-bat, but was victimized by the bugaboo that had impacted his team for two straight games - quality pitching. He made the first out of the final run with the team's 12th strikeout. [read more]
Parkway rooters Rob Mullen, Jimmy O'Leary, Joey O'Leary, Eamon McQuaid and Joey Mullen cheered the team at the Corrib Pub Wednesday.
07.AUG.08
There was, as they say, good news and bad news as the Parkway Nationals team faced off against Shelton, CT in the Little League World Series Wednesday afternoon.
The good news: the team was already guaranteed to live another day, with a record that entitled them to continue playing on Thursday in semi-final action. [read more]
Ray Jordan, riding his electric hybrid bicycle, was one of many bikers attending Mayor Menino's unveiling of Boston's first bike lane, located on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston.
Dana Forsythe 07.AUG.08
Joined by Boston’s Bike Coordinator Nicole Freedman, Mayor Thomas Menino announced on Tuesday new benefits for bicyclists in the city.
Standing alongside a newly formatted and paved Commonwealth Avenue in Allston, Menino lauded the installation of new bike lanes running in front of Boston University and along American Legion Highway in Roslindale. [read more]
