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Kairos Shen, the popular chief planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, came to Allston last night intending to discuss long-term riverfront property development along Soldier’s Field Road. But at the community wide planning meeting, Shen quickly found his agenda derailed by a smattering of area residents. Aggressively, and at times angrily, they steered the discussion to what they denounced as the City planning agency’s botched handling of the Charlesview Apartments relocation—the “largest and most dynamic” change to the neighborhood in many years...
...American Express and Chrysler commercials—wrote and designed a 240- page book documenting the last six decades of Harvard Square. The book, called “Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950,” officially launched on Tuesday. “I love the area, and I have seen it change a lot over the years. I wanted to see it as I first remembered it, and as it was before I got here,” said Lotman. While looking through local bookstores for up-to-date histories of Harvard Square, Lotman could only find...
...Project 112 - it had sprayed trioctyl phosphate, a chemical compound known to cause cancer in animals, as a simulant for nerve agents. When the Navy left, the island was declared a federal Superfund site for environmental cleanup. The Navy has cleared thousands of undetonated bombs and turned its area of the island into a fish and wildlife refuge...
...while nearly everyone can agree that the conditions at these youth facilities need to be changed, there is much less consensus about how best to go about doing that. "Nobody said this was going to be easy," says New York State assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, an Ithaca-area Democrat who helped uncover a gross lack of oversight of the entire system. "This is like turning the Queen Mary around...
Locations: River Area Date: Tuesday September...