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Home buyers Bunker Hill mentality: Charlestown purchasers look beyond Monument Square House hunter Bridget Schley wanted a condo with charm on the outside and new finishes on the inside - and found both recently in Charlestowns Bunker Hill Street area. We (got) a great condo... Pieces of the Puzzle Many expect 2007 to be the year that Downtowns amenities catch up to its residential boom. Community colleges -- doing the most with the least MARY FIFIELD said she was baffled. Terrence Gomes said he was quite baffled. The respective presidents of Bunker Hill Community College and Roxbury Community College are still caressing their foreheads after Mayor Thomas M. Menino bopped them with pre-Christmas lumps of coal. Speaking last week to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Menino praised his many successes in fueling economic ... A Book Lovers Top-Shelf Honor DRACUT -- William Doherty cast a huge shadow wherever he went. He was the classic picture of the Irish city cop, right out of central casting. He had this gruff exterior, but he was really a big softy, said Tim Doherty, the fourth of seven children born to William and Athene Doherty. Menino targeting community colleges Convinced that community colleges are failing the city, the Menino administration is considering a range of measures to force them to change , including the possibility of having the state-funded institutions report to city officials. Jennings B. Fletcher Jennings Bryan “Jim” Fletcher, 81, of Winchester, died Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006, in Blue Ridge Hospice Residential Center, Winchester. Campus showdown HOMING IN on graduation rates that have slipped below 15 percent at Bunker Hill and Roxbury community colleges, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino last week scolded the states higher education system for failing our students and failing our businesses. It was a tough use of the bully pulpit. But was the criticism valid? Residents asked to help D300 on long-term plan CARPENTERSVILLE -- For the first time since 2000, the Community Unit School District 300 school board is revising its long-term vision and is asking residents for some feedback. Public television to broadcast schools holiday concert BUNKER HILL - Smoky Hills Public Television will present a tape-delayed broadcast of A Holiday Concert From Southwest Kansas, a Christmas program presented on Dec. 9 by the Dodge City Community College choirs and instrumentalists of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Windthorst. 3rd Annual Massachusetts College Goal Sunday to Help College-Bound Students Complete Financial Aid Form The 3rd annual Massachusetts College Goal Sunday will take place on January 28, 2007 at 17 locations throughout the state. College Goal Sunday provides free assistance to help students and families, including those with no tradition of attending college, to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid , the federally required application for financial aid. |