Children escape the 90-plus degree heat last week by frolicking in the wading pool at the Christian Science Center on Massachusetts Avenue. (Don West photo)
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Wallace-Benjamin feels right at Home
David Cogger
One Saturday morning in the fall of 2005, Joan Wallace-Benjamin and Gloria Nemerowicz shared cups of coffee at a Starbucks in Chestnut Hill.
The two friends discussed the so-called “aged-out” population of young served by The Home For Little Wanderers, the Boston-based nonprofit where Wallace-Benjamin was president and chief executive officer. Nemerowicz was the president of Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill. Full Story
Mattapan high school not in Hub’s foreseeable future
Howard Manly
For the last several years, City Councilor Charles C. Yancey has talked about building a new high school.
Armed with a 1996 report commissioned by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Yancey has whispered and screamed from citizens group meetings to City Council sessions that the Boston Public Schools were short at least 1,100 seats. Full story
Boston-born Potter was country’s first magician
Mario Valdes
Some said he rode in “a fancy cart pulled by a pair of ganders.”
Others claimed to have seen him “crawl through a solid log,” while there were those who whispered that he could “take a rooster from his pocket, hitch it to a wagon and pull a load that would have strained a team of horses.” Full story
