The Neighborhood Council will hold its monthly meeting tonight Monday, July 8th at 7pm at the Nazzaro Center.

The Mirabella Pool will open for the 2024 summer on Friday, June 28th.

Lap Swim:
8am - 10am Monday - Friday

Open Swim:
noon - 7pm Monday - Friday
You must have an account in the registration system to participate in Open Swim, but you don't need to actually register for a time slot. Just show up between noon and 7pm weekdays and you will be checked in when you arrive.

Parents of Eliot school children were notified via email on Wednesday that the last day of school had been cancelled. The email notification - which came on a holiday and with less than 48 hours notice - left parents scrambling to find childcare and reschedule end-of-year activities.

The closures affect 2,502 students across three campuses and six schools.

The Neighborhood Council will hold its monthly meeting Monday, June 10th at 7pm at the Nazzaro Center.

Voting items on the agenda:

• 211-213 Hanover Street – Mother Annas seeks new beer and wine license to replace transferred liquor license.
• 358-364 Hanover Street – New Restaurant, Pappare, seeks a zoning variance to expand existing footprint of prior restaurant into office space.

Full agenda:

Between 2010 and 2020, North End households added 1,448 additional cars for a total of 3,643 vehicles - up 65% from 2,195 in 2010 according to Census data.

Patrick Mendoza, who has been held on charges stemming from a shooting on Hanover Street last July, was released on bail last week.

Mendoza turned himself in to police from a treatment facility on the Cape on 21 July after a nine day search for him following the shooting. At a dangerousness hearing in October, a Suffolk County Superior Court Judge ruled that he should remain behind bars until at least 1 May because he remained potential threat to society.

The second Big Day Boston downtown birding competition was held at Copp's Hill on Saturday. Participants observed 66 species of birds and first place was awarded to iemess who spotted a whopping 37 species in Downtown Boston.

Full coverage at bigdayboston.com.

NEW Health hosted their second annual Viva La Bocce tournament at Langone Park in Boston’s North End neighborhood today, May 4. Fourteen teams went head-to-head for a good cause and for a chance to be crowned the best at the Italian sport.

Big Day Boston, the friendly downtown birding competition, is returning to Copp's Hill Terrace in Boston's North End, Saturday May 4th 2024.

Participants will compete to spot the most species of birds over a six hour period starting at 10am. All will receive a checklist to keep track of their sightings.