Building on the city's summer block party grants, Boston is expanding its 'Spooky Streets' program by offering $250 stipends to help residents throw a Halloween or harvest-themed block party this fall.
For Halloween, a resident draws chalk ghosts and a Jack-o'-lantern on the sidewalk outside his apartment building on Commonwealth Avenue. This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox,Jerod Mayo. We’ll see if the Pats can turn the solo win into a streak next Sunday during their Foxborough home opener against the Seattle Seahawks.
Why are they doing it? “This is one of the initiatives that we really would like to carry over from the summertime to Halloween,” Perez told WBUR. The city also hopes that closing off streets to cars during trick-or-treating will help prevent evening accidents, which are“October is one of those months that after 6 p.m. is all pitch dark,” Perez added. “We have a lot of families out in the street, and we really want to make it a safe space for everybody.
Who will be there: The SJC will hear arguments from lawyers representing a clerk magistrate, news organizations and a group of alleged buyers. The clerk has ruled that the hearings to determine whether buyers will be charged should be open, but that court records be secret. The accused clients have requested to keep both the records and hearings private.
Who won’t be there: Desiree Demos, an advocate for sex workers, says one voice still missing from the hearing is the women at the center of the case. “The absence of representation for women and girls impacted by the violence of being bought and sold in the sex trade is unacceptable,” she told WBUR’s Todd Wallack.
What’s next: The court is expected to rule on whether or not the hearings will be open and if records will be public by early next year.in charges against those selling sex versus those paying for it — and how many buyers manage to maintain privacy through it all.How much is that? Well, 2,878 is far short of the 6,800 megawatts the regional effort had previously set out to procure.
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