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THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2022

VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74

South Boston Real Estate Market Recap Year-to-Date Transactions Down but Prices Hold Steady

By Ginger DeShaney

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he third quarter of 2022 held some local real e st ate ma rket su r prise s.

“Some things even surprised me,” said long-time South Boston realtor Jackie Rooney. “The big change is the number of sales is down 30%.”

But the bigger surprise is that prices held through the year’s first three quarters, although many of these transactions went under agreement when the rates were lower (from November 2021 through March 2022).

At the end of the third quarter in 2021 (year to date through Sept.

30), there were 756 transactions; this year, that number is 531.

“Some of it is due to the interest rate, and maybe people

were reluctant to sell,” said Rooney, broker/owner of Rooney Real Estate.

Even if some homeowners prefer to sell, will they give up a 2.75 percent interest rate to pay 6.25 percent? Rooney asked. “There’s some of that in play,” he said.

But the COVID-19 pandemic was also a factor. “I think last year was a historic year in sales,” Rooney said.

He had several listings he was expecting in 2020 that got pushed into 2021 when the pandemic shut everything down. “So I’m assuming if I had some, everyone else did, too.

And I think that’s why in 2021 the number of transactions was so high.”

Of the 571 transactions in 2022, 448, or 84 percent, are condos. The median sales price for condos is up 6 percent; the median sales price per square foot is up 6.5 percent.

The median sales price for a condo as of Sept. 30, 2022, is $816,250, up Continued on Page 3

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from 2021’s price of $770,000. The price per square foot is $815 in 2022 as compared with $765 in 2021.

The price of single-family homes has remained the same: $1 million for both years. This year to date, 45 singles have been sold to last year’s 49. The price per square foot has increased 8 percent, though, to $639, up from $593 in 2021.

For multi-family transactions, 46 were sold last year to date; this year that number is 38. Prices are down for multi-family homes: in 2021, the median sales price was $1,367,500; this year it’s $1,292,500; but the price per square foot went up this year – $600 from $524 last year.

“So that tells me smaller singles and smaller multis sold, and they fetch more per square foot,” Rooney said.

One interesting note on multis: Last year, multis averaged 42 days on the market; this year, they average 19 days.

Inventory is also down right now.

There are only 85 condos on the market as of 9/30, compared with 114 last year at this time, a 25 percent decrease.

Those 85 condos represent two months’ worth of inventory, as do the nine single and nine multis on the market now.

A stable market is 4-6 months of inventory, Rooney said, so there’s not a whole lot to choose from.

“There’s a disconnect between sellers’ expectations and buyers’ buying power. And that can take upwards of six months to sort itself out.”

Rooney said the sellers may not get what they could have gotten for their property a year ago, but the property they’re buying won’t cost as much. “That’s what usually happens when it sorts itself out.”

Rooney warned that there are storm clouds ahead. “When we look at current inventory, days on the market have gone up … 81 percent from 22 to 38 days, and we see quite a few price drops.”

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A Curley Center Update

by Rick Winterson

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or the last several weeks, there have been questions about the Curley Community Center’s deep, overall renovations, which began in 2020, were delayed for a year by asbestos litigation, and now are expected by many observers to be completed before year-end. We inspected the site earlier this week and then asked a few questions ourselves, with the following results and conclusions.

On Tuesday, Ed Flynn, the President of Boston’s City Council and our District 2 City Councilor, kindly responded to our questions with an email, after he had talked with City officials and staff. It’s brief and to-the-point, so we will quote it exactly as Ed sent it to us: “From my conversation with city officials and senior staff at BCYF, it is my understanding that following supply chain issues and legal disputes, the city is hoping to have construction on the Curley Community Center completed by the end of November; with permitting, supplies, staffing, and other considerations likely to push re-opening to early in the New Year.

“The Curley Community Center, or the “L”, has been an essential recreational facility and critical to the wellbeing of so many of our neighbors, young families, and seniors in South Boston for decades. Following this renovation, the first since the Flynn Administration, it will continue to be a crown jewel for South Boston and one of the nicest facilities in the entire City of Boston.”

Yesterday afternoon, Erin Murphy contacted us with her own “take” on the Curley Community Center. From her position as City Councilor-at-Large, Erin views the Center as virtually finished. She told us the contractors should be leaving soon, possibly by monthend October, but definitely on or before Thanksgiving. After that, the BCYF will have to start the

facility up, staff up the Center, and then get at least a few of the Center’s 2023 programs up and running. This will assuredly go into next year (right now, the BCYF is already firming up their citywide winter programming). According to Erin, normal opening events such as a celebratory and joyful ribbon-cutting will take place during or after early phases of the Curley Community Center startup.

A Few Editorial Comments:

We took a thorough look at the Curley Center Project site two days ago. There’s a significant amount of exterior landscaping going on, which is usually one of the f inal steps in renovating an existing building. Doing this in the fall is advantageous, because grass and plantings have time to take root and will be the better for this in the spring. In other words, landscaping is one sign that a project is nearing completion However, there appears to be a fair amount of construction remaining to be done on the ocean side of the east wing (which had been the men’s side of the Curley) near the handball courts.

Whether this will interfere with at least a partial opening of the Center is questionable. On the other hand, there’s about a sixweek interval between now and Thanksgiving – a fair amount of time to complete the major Curley construction work that remains.

Sta f f ing t he C u r le y Community Center during the labor shortage around here will be a challenge. Training intervals could then last for weeks, if not for months, depending on the prior experience needed to fill each of the Center’s jobs. We note that electrical work still to be done could be delayed if it requires microchips, just as other construction work had been delayed last year, due to lumber shortages caused by supply chain diff iculties.

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Stop & Shop: Here to Stay, It Seems

by Rick Winterson

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he Stop & Shop superma rket at 731 East Broadway has been here for something over 20 years, located between L and K Streets on or near several bus lines. It has its own taxicab stand out front, as well as a parking lot in back.

In ma ny re spect s, it resembles other neighborhood supermarkets that have served their customers with groceries a nd hou s e hold pr o du c t s for seven decades or more.

Yet, we have heard several times recently that our Stop & Shop may close (and soon). Most of the comments we’ve received have really been questions, such as: “Have you heard the Stop & Shop on Broadway is going to shut down?” So, we decided to ask around ourselves.

Whether our Stop & Shop

decides to close (or not), this is news, so we don’t mind telling you right up front that our East Broadway Stop & Shop will stay open for the foreseeable future.

We first called Stop & Shop’s head office in Quincy. The community relations person who answered our questions stated, “We’ve heard nothing about this

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in our department, so closing the South Boston branch down isn’t in our plans. It’s not about to happen – certainly not very soon.”

We then asked around locally.

Everyone we asked said they knew nothing about a potential closing. And they answered us firmly, quickly, and cheerfully, as if shutting down was a rumor only, and actually might have been someone’s joke.

At least one person we questioned admitted that other people had asked him about a possible shutdown.

Another person said that our local Stop & Shop was planning a medium-sized expansion because business in the East Broadway

branch had been strong lately.

Stop & Shop is big – 400 branches, 60,000 employees, $15 billion in sales - so store shutdowns can happen, of course.

For example, they closed their store in nearby Brockton in 2020, perhaps due to the effects of the COVID pandemic. But most likely, shutdown rumors began when Stop & Shop here in South Boston had empty shelves for a while – most of them caused by supply chain difficulties (do you remember the shortages of baby supplies?).

Perhaps you could ca ll this an opinion but we’ll repeat it as a fact: Stop & Shop on Broadway is here to stay.

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Janet Happnie

By Carol Masshardt

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anet Happnie, the Traffic Supervisor (aka Crossing Guard) on the corner of P. and Broadway knows a thing or two about getting people where they are going and doing it safely. She is a retired railroad conductor with over twenty years’ experience and now has been in her post-retirement perch for the past six years. “You know, All Aboard,” she said explaining her rail work directing, engaging, and welcoming travelers in a job she held when women were a clear minority.

An “oldest daughter,” growing up in Dorchester and living in South Boston for the past thirty years, the opportunities of her older brother were on her radar.

“He’s a police officer and I have to say I would have liked to have done that,” she said. There is little question that she would have been effective and fair, but in

fact, her current role combines the skill and focus common in all public safety.

“So, I retired from the railroad, and I was bored out of my mind. I looked on the City of Boston website, applied and it came together. I had the training in how to take charge of things,” she said. Not new to children with a daughter and two grandsons, Janet Happnie, watches out for the school children and parents every morning and afternoon with natural competence and a practical unshowy delight.

How does she do it in winter with those familiar inches of frozen slush and winds howling up Broadway from Pleasure Bay? “Oh, it’s not so bad or so long. This is about the children. I see their faces, and they are so polite, and it is catching!” she said. It seems the positive goes both ways. On a recent day, she wished all the children a good day, and many, including very young children, wished her the same.

Standing on any South Boston Street any time of day has it challenges with not only dashing children but sauntering pre-occupied adults, and enough dogs to create a parade. But Janet Happnie does not seem anxious navigating it all from the middle of the street with a mere stop sign.

“I am invincible,” she said, and was only half joking. “Maybe foolishly, I think no harm can come my way.”

She stands firmly in the middle of the intersection with her sign and eyes

Janet Happnie with Sarah and Teddy Cohen

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Janet Happnie with 3 generations of the Margia family on both children, parents and traffic, adept at communicating order while observing the flow of traffic. She explains it as follows. “I am a city girl through and through, and I am being helpful, and I see things, and I am here for a reason.” She doesn’t blink at nonsense common on any city street but is “stunned” by how appreciated she is.

“The parents say thank you for keeping our children safe. It’s wild,” she said softly.

Unlike suburban schools with large circular driveways, children who use South Boston intersections walk to school at South Boston Catholic Academy, or other area schools, and her presence is integral to the days beginning and ending.

“It’s not just about safety, though that she does well, but it’s a friendly face on cold windy days,” said Sarah Cohen, mother of Isabelle and Teddy.

And nanny, Molly Argus, has a perspective about the drivers. “There is a disconnect when you drive here,” she said. “I know, I am pretty young myself, and you don’t even know there

is a school here. You can just fly up this street. They do not even know they are expected to stop. They aren’t looking to hurt anyone but are unaware. Janet really helps because it is clear,” she said.

Public relations would not be Ms. Janet’s (as she is called) prime motivation. She is just too sensible and hard working to focus on perception, but when visiting relatives come to South Boston, they notice more than parking woes and prices.

Nan and Ed Margia, visiting their daughter, Janna, walk the route whenever they visit from Florida. “It isn’t just for the kids. Janet is terrific. She starts the day with the parents feeling supported, too. She is a delight,” they said.

Janet Happnie has no need to shine but she does. She could easily be sleeping late and doing anything else she desires after a long work life. But, as effortlessly as she directs several chatting adults away from on-coming traffic, she summarizes the meaning many try to achieve at every age. “It gives me purpose and it makes me happy,” she said.

Janet Happnie, crossing guard at P. and Broadway

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Trick or Treat on Broadway Set for Oct. 31st South Boston Chamber of Commerce businesses and the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation invite neighborhood children in costumes to “Trick or Treat along East and West Broadway” on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, from 4-6 p.m.

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Halloween Events Set for Oct. 29 Two Halloween events will be taking place in South Boston on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 2-4 p.m.

Participating establishments will be clearly marked with orange and black posters inviting the children to stop by for a treat.

For the safety and enjoyment of all participants, we are asking that trick-or-treaters walk in the same direction. If you are starting on West Broadway going toward East Broadway, walk on the oddnumbered (southern) side of the street. If you are starting on East Broadway heading to West Broadway, walk on the even-numbered (northern) side of the street.

The Friends of North of Broadway (NoB) is hosting a Halloween

Broadway businesses that would like to participate but haven’t received a poster via email yet should contact Karen at 617-990-7062 or Karen@vibrant-events.com.

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Trick or Treat Costume Parade at 500 E. First Street/I Street Park. There will be candy stations for trick-or-treaters, sidewalk chalk to make art, and costume awards for best adult, child, and pet costumes.

The Recreation Station Halloween Gathering, a family- and pet-friendly event on Pappas Way, will include trick-ortreat stations, face painting, spooky music, festive decor, a raffle featuring gift cards from South Boston businesses, and refreshments.

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Saturday, October 29, 2-4pm 500 E 1st Street, South Boston / I Street Park Candy stations for trick or treaters Sidewalk Chalk for children Costume awards for best adult, child and pet costumes

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The South Boston Chamber of Commerce & South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation

The two events are close to each other, so be sure to check them both out!

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Gate of Heaven, St. Brigid Parishes and St. Augustine Chapel News

Rep. Lynch To Host Service Academies Information Session on October 30th

Religious Education Grades K – 6 Classes 2022-2023

On Sunday, October 30th, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Congressman Stephen F. Lynch will host an information session at East Middle School in Braintree for all high school students interested in applying to one of the United States Service Academies.

It’s not too late to register!

Next CLASS Dates: Fall 2022 Oct 16, 23, 30 Classes are held on Sunday mornings 9 am - 10:15 am in Cushing Hall, followed by 10:30 am Mass at St. Brigid Church.

Representatives from each of the following academies will make brief presentations and be available for questions: United States Military Academy at West Point, NY United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY United States Coast Guard Academy at New London, CT Massachusetts Maritime Academy at Buzzards Bay, MA

You can Register your child in person or on our website: www.gateofheavenstbrigid.org/religiouseducation

For those unable to attend, more information on the Service Academy nomination process is available on our website: https:// lynch.house.gov/service-academy-nominations

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Faith & Blue Events Inspire the Community

By Ginger DeShaney

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he Faith & Blue events over the weekend in Boston inspired new Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox to make sure his officers continue to build strong relationships throughout the city.

“Boston is a tremendous place,” he said at the Faith & Blue marquee event Monday night at the Lawn on D. “We have to build a better police department.

And that’s my main goal.

“I want to thank all the clergy, all the faith-based groups that are here today … to support the local police department and the city, as we are about making Boston the best city in the country.”

According to Faithblue.org, Faith & Blue was inaugurated in 2020 by MovementForward, Inc., working with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) at the U.S. Department of Justice.

“The idea was a simple but powerful one — the ties that bind officers and residents must be reinforced if we are to build neighborhoods where everyone feels safe and included,” the website states. “Faith-based organizations are key to building these bonds because they are not only the largest community resource in the nation … but because they are as diverse as our nation.”

Before the speaking program at Monday’s Interfaith Celebration,

music and dancing filled the tent at Lawn on D. There was food, kids’ activities, and even a coloring contest (won by Rebecca Martin). Students from Saint John Paul II opened the program with the Youth Prayer for Our City.

Local politicians and dignitaries were in attendance as were many faith leaders. Cardinal Sean O’Malley performed a blessing.

Mayor Michelle Wu was in awe of the weekend’s events.

“All those events that took place over the weekend really demonstrate or remind us what has been at the core of Boston leadership nationally through the Boston Police Department: The power of community policing, the power of bringing our community members into the work day to day really originated right here in Boston,” she said.

Wu remembered the day she introduced Commissioner Cox. “He pledged that Boston Police would continue to do everything they can to connect with communities, to know our

residents, and to work hand in hand as we work to protect and secure public safety and health.”

So, one of the first things Cox did was bring in a bunch of activities for Faith & Blue, she said, “so we could highlight … just how much of a difference it makes when we come together.”

The Reverend Ma rkel Hutchins, the visionary behind MovementForward, Inc. and the One Congregation One Precinct (OneCOP) initiative, said: “We never progress when we separate, segregate ourselves.”

He noted that the only times this country has been able to progress and push through its difficulties “is when we have the courage to sit together and reason together, because when we do that, we find that no matter where we come from, no matter what our walk in life or background is, there’s more that unites us together than divides us.”

So when Hutchins started to see the divisions in the aftermath of law enforcement-

involved tragedies, he knew the country needed to “take a different conversation in a different direction with our movement and our advocacy, one that unites law enforcement and communities together. There’s never been a movement in the history of the United States of America that did not have its foundation in the faith communit y.

“If we’re going to march across the bridge of violence and upheaval and dissent and intention in our communities, it will be because every synagogue, every mosque, every church, every temple, every parish comes together and takes our rightful place at the center of social change,” Hutchins said.

Faith & Blue was launched to facilitate safer, stronger, more just and unified communities by directly enabling local partnerships a mon g l aw en forc ement professionals, residents, businesses, and community groups through the connections of local faith-based organizations, the website states.

“Three years ago, we decided that we would not continue to curse the darkness, but we would light candles,” Hutchins said. “We chose to end national Faith & Blue Weekend in the city of Boston because in so many ways this city and your faith communities, working hand in hand with law enforcement, has been lighting candles for a long time. Together, there’s no problem we can’t solve, there’s no difficult situation we can’t handle when we come together and work together.”

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October Peace Breakfast at St. Monica

by Rick Winterson

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ocally here in South Boston, the recent Colu mbus Day weekend was called “Faith & Blue Weekend”. Saturday morning’s October 8 Peace Breakfast was held in St. Monica Church Hall, a church that’s part of the South Boston-Seaport Catholic Collaborative. It was jointly served by the Monica Volunteers and members of Station C-6 of the Boston Police Department (the BPD) as part of Faith & Blue Weekend.

A hall full of guests attended the October 8 Peace Breakfast.

And it certainly was a full breakfast – scrambled eggs, crisp bacon, well-grilled sausage, hash-browned potato strips (the best way to serve them), toast, pastries, cereal, bananas, various

fruit juices, tea, milk, yogurt, and good strong coffee. A line of volunteer servers served breakfast, a lot of second servings, and even a few thirds. And as a (very) nice touch, St. Monica Volunteers set up a coloring book table for the kids that they called “Monica’s Pumpkin Patch of Peace”.

The enthusiastic crowd gave off a buzz of joy as the event proceeded. St. Monica’s Deacon Paul Kline offered thanks to the volunteers and to the police for the bountiful meal. Station C-6 Capt. Joe Boyle spoke of his aim to pursue Faith & Blue. Supt.

Lanita Cullinane from the BPD’s Bureau of Field Services greeted everyone. City Council Ed Flynn offered a few words, expressing his own gratitude to the Monica volunteers.

And we were quite honored to have newly appointed BPD Commissioner Michael

Cox as a Peace Breakfast guest.

To say that the October Peace Breakfast was a success is really an understatement. We talked with BPD Sgt. Joe Ridge, who has helped organize and serve these Peace Breakfasts since 2018. According to him, over 150 guests were served breakfast last Saturday morning. He then estimated that they have served between 7,100 and 7,200 people over the four years since the breakfasts first began. In Sgt. Joe’s opinion, the Peace Breakfasts

jointly served by BPD Station C-6 and the Monica Volunteers were the very first Faith & Blue event in the entire country.

And don’t forget that the next Peace Breakfasts in St. Monica Church Hall will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 5 and on Saturday, December 17. All are welcome.

“Faith & Blue” is a nationwide effort to encourage cooperation between faith-based organizations and members of neighborhood police departments.

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Inducts Club Alumna into Hall of Fame

oys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) honored its Hall of Fame Class of 2022 with a special induction ceremony at the organization’s 128 th Annual Meeting last Thursday night.

Club le a d e r s h i p, Board members, staff, and guests gathered at the Westin Copley Place to celebrate the f ive new inductees, who all made a significant impact on BGCB and their c o m m u n it ie s .

Helen Chin Schlichte: Senior Advisory Board Member of BGCB, Assistant to the Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance, Co-founder of South Cove Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

The following make up the BGCB Hall of Fame Class of 2022:

Catherine Morris: Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Club Alumna, Director of Arts and Culture of the Boston Foundation, Founder of Boston Art and Music Soul Festival

James E. Rooney: Edgerley Family South Boston Club Alumnus, President and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

Paul J. Rooney: Edgerley Family South Boston Club Alumnus, BGCB Director, Managing Partner of EBS

Robert Monahan: Edgerley Family South Boston Club Alumnus, BGCB Board of Trustees

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Back row from L-R: Robert D. Monahan, Paul J. Rooney, Robert Lewis Jr., James E. Rooney. Front row from L-R: Catherine T. Morris, Helen Chin Schlichte

Member, Julie’s Family Learning Program Director of Operations The BGCB Hall of Fame celebrates those that embody a tradition of positive influence and impact across the communities.

The five inductees are exemplary leaders in their respective fields and have made significant impacts on the Clubs, families, communities,

the Commonwealth, and beyond.

BGCB Nicholas President and CEO Robert Lewis Jr. sat down with the five inductees to have a fire-side conversation about their experiences with BGCB. All five claimed their experiences with the Clubs had an immense impact on their future outcomes of being Boston’s leaders in the business, arts, and healthcare sectors.

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In just over 24 hours from now, on Friday, October 14, the Cumberland Farms convenience store at L and Fifth will close for good. The lot where they’re sited has been sold – under agreement for sure; passing of papers imminent or actually completed, as you read this. They were a neighborhood pillar Eighty-three years ago, Cumberland Farms was an actual dairy farm in Cumberland, R.I. Sixty years ago, they became a convenience store in Bellingham, Mass. There are now 566 (minus 1) Cumby’s in eight states. The new structure at 628 East Fifth will mainly be residences, but it is zoned for retail on the street floor. The current Store Manager is going to train as a Cumberland District Manager. So, who knows? Perhaps Cumby’s will return.

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the lives of the children at our Early Childhood Center. On October 4, 2022 the McGrath family along with the Toddler and K0 students, families, faculty and staff and Ms. MaryKate

Bourdon, t he Director of our Early Childhood Center celebrated the opening of the new playground. Dr. Helenann Civian, our Principal, expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the McGrath family on behalf of all us at SBCA, and Father Robert Casey, our Pastor, lead us all in a special prayer and Blessed the

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playground, then the McGrath Family officially dedicated and opened the playground in the memory of their son, Colin, with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Not only do the Toddlers and K0 students love playing in this new playground, the K1 students also enjoy playing in this fantastic and wonderful new

playground! All of us at South Boston Catholic Academy are so thankful to the McGrath Family and the Colin’s Joy Project for giving us this amazing new playground - we will forever be thankful! The New families are welcome to email our admissions team at: admissions@ s b c a t h o l i c a c a d e m y. or g

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2022

Virtual Public Meeting

7 Channel Center NPC & PDA Amendment Thursday, October 27

Zoom Link: bit.ly/3EusU6f

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Toll Free: (833) 568 - 8864

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE

SU22P2240EA

Estate of:

Meeting ID: 160 216 7935

Skiff

Marshall

Project Proponent: 7 CC 73 Owner, LLC

Brennan

Middle Name

First Name

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court

Docket No.

Suffolk

Division

Last Name

Also Known As: Date of Death:

Project Description: 7 CC 73 Owner, LLC (the “Proponent”) proposes to redevelop 7 Channel Center Street in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston (the “Redevelopment Site”), by constructing a new office/research and development (“R&D”) building (the “Redevelopment”). The Redevelopment is a part of the Channel Center Project (the “Channel Center Project” or the “Project”) which was originally reviewed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (“BRA”) in the early 2000s. Since that time, six Notices of Project Change have been submitted for review and approval. This seventh Notice of Project Change (“Seventh NPC”) is for the Redevelopment Site only; the remainder of the Channel Center Project will remain as previously approved. mail to: Daniel Polanco Boston Planning & Development Agency One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 phone: 617-918-4460 email: dan.polanco@boston.gov

Close of Comment Period: 11/7/2022

BostonPlans.org

August 22, 2022

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Edward

Petitioner

First Name

Edward

First Name

J.

M.I.

J.

M.I.

Brennan

Brennan Last Name

Skaneateles

of

Last Name

of

NY

(City/Town)

(State)

Skaneateles

has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve

NY

(City/Town)

with

(State)

without

surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

@BostonPlans

Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

The Law Office of

Paul J. Gannon PC General Practice of Law

Virtual Public Meeting

Public Meeting: 776 Summer St.- Phase 1 Wednesday, October 26

Zoom Link: bit.ly/3TAVJD1

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Toll Free: (833) 568 - 8864 Meeting ID: 161 593 2722

Project Description: The Phase 1 Project will be located on 8.4 acres / 364,409 square feet within the approximately 15.2 acre (approximately 661,500 square foot) parcel of land known as and numbered 776 Summer Street in South Boston. The Phase 1 Project includes the rehabilitation of the Edison Turbine Halls 1, 2, and 3 and the construction of the buildings on Blocks D and F.

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mail to: Stephen Harvey Boston Planning & Development Agency One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 phone: 617.918.4418 email: stephen.j.harvey@boston.gov BostonPlans.org

MPC 551 (3/19/12)

@BostonPlans

Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

82 West Broadway South Boston, MA (617)269-1993 pgannon@paulgannonlaw.com

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