• Homework Help at the Boston Public Library branch, 179 Main St., at 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free drop-in homework help, academic support, and mentoring available during the school year in all subject areas to students in grades K – 8. This is an Out-of-School Time program funded by the Boston Public Library Foundation.
• You are now banned from smoking in Boston parks and playgrounds such as Paul Revere park and Edwards Playground.
• Here is a link on trash collection in Charlestown this New Year's week.
• This is the schedule for collection Christmas trees in Charlestown and throughout Boston.
• On this day in 1860, the "discovery" of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. Turned out that there was no such planet between the sun and Mercury effecting the laters solar orbit. It will not be until 2063 – according to Star Trek history – when inhabitants from Vulcan (Vulcans) will make formal contact with the human race, when a routine scouting mission noticed Zeframe Cochrane's first Human warp-speed flight. The survey ship followed Cochrane's vessel back to his base in Bozeman, Montana, to meet the man who had achieved Earth's first faster-than-light travel, and subsequently established formal diplomatic relations with Earth.
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