Event speakers Audrey Schulman, Steven Owens, and Patricia Nolan.

A transition away from gas to heat our buildings is an important part of addressing climate change. But how do we accomplish that? Come and hear about local efforts and strategies, including key legislative initiatives and the exciting alternative of networked geothermal energy, and learn what you can do to support them.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Ward 6 Councilor Lance Davis, and Ward 5 Councilor Naima Sait invite you to join a virtual community meeting to learn about flood relief and water quality improvement efforts planned for Morrison Avenue (Cedar Street to Grove Street) and the surrounding neighborhood.

It’s a tradition that most of us have a lot of fun with. Whether one is of Irish lineage or not, St. Patrick’s Day stands for a recognition of Irish and Irish American culture, and in many ways its resulting fusion.

The religious origins of the day have, for some, been obscured and often all but forgotten in favor of the prominent displays of the color green, eating and drinking, and numerous parades. The day has been celebrated on the North American continent since before the American Revolution, and is actually an official holiday in neighboring Suffolk County. Ask any of our Boston brethren and they would – to a single soul – be aware of this fact.

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Article by Off the Shelf Correspondent Joanne Barrett

Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) will bring his acclaimed portrayal of poet Robert Frost to Boston this Spring in the one-man show Robert Frost: This Verse Business by local playwright A.M. Dolan. It’s an entertaining portrait of the great poet and platform legend whose public “talks” were hot tickets for nearly half a century and an illuminating glimpse of the old bard at home, aware of his fame and failures, with poems still to write and “promises to keep.”

Marc Zegans has penned seven collections of poems, most recently, Lyon Street (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022) and The Snow Dead (Cervena Barva Press, 2020), two spoken word albums, several immersive theatrical productions, including Sirens, Dreams and a Cat (co-written with D. Lowell Wilder, 2020), and many poetry films. Ghost Book (Kite String Press, 2024), a collaboration with fine art photographer Tsar Fedorsky, will be released in April. Marc lives by the coast in Northern California.

This service change is in place while crews perform work as part of the Track Improvement Program, which will improve reliability and provide a safer ride.

Following up on the previous announcement from February 23, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Orange Line service between Jackson Square and North Station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for four days from March 18-21.

Of the 11 restrictions removed during this outage, one was the oldest in the system at over 900 days old

The MBTA  announced the completion of critical track work on the Green Line, which removed 11 safety-related speed restrictions. Crews accomplished this critical work due to unencumbered access to track areas while Green Line service was suspended on the B branch between Copley and Babcock Street, on the C branch between Copley and Cleveland Circle, and on the D branch between Copley and Brookline Hills from February 20 to March 8.