The Heights

A Love Letter to New York City

Jenny Hotchkiss • March 25, 2025

I’m a better person in New York City—more optimistic, kinder, and more relaxed. These qualities are probably the exact opposite of how the average person would describe NYC. The city’s constant, insatiable noise and energy are stressful for most, but, for me, they absorb my worries right up.

Breaking Out of the BC Bubble

Dee Espinosa • February 9, 2025

“He felt that Boston College was a gated community for white people.” Those words, casually mentioned by the nurse to explain why her son did not attend Boston College, hit me like a brick wall. As a nursing student in my population health clinical, I was placed at an elementary school in Lower Roxbury.

Finding Relaxation and a Semblance of Spring at the 2019 Boston Flower and Garden Show

Eleanor Grondin • March 17, 2019

At the Boston Flower and Garden Show, local gardeners create an atmosphere of relaxation and figments of spring with their landscaping.

Report: Potential Conversion of Mary Ann’s to Dispensary Draws BC, Cleveland Circle Merchants’ Opposition

Jack Goldman • October 13, 2018

Happy Valley is opening a marijuana dispensary in East Boston and, if the sale goes through, plans to convert Mary Ann’s to a dispensary as well. Boston College officials have indicated their opposition to the proposed sale, as have Cleveland Circle merchants.

With Newton Ballot Question, Voters Could Opt-Out of Marijuana Establishments

Colleen Martin • September 15, 2018

The Newton City Council voted on Sept. 7 to allow a question on the November ballot that would allow voters to “opt-out” of having recreational marijuana establishments in Newton. The vote to put the question on the ballot was proposed after a group of Newton residents organized to protest the addition of recreational marijuana establishments to the community.