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Top Stories: 40 Warren Reboots, Resident Fight T Cuts

And the Constitution will play an extra-special role this summer.

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Constitution to play large role in Boston Navy Week 2012: The Navy announced this week that Charlestown’s own USS Constitution will play a in Boston Navy Week 2012. Boston will be one of 15 cities across the nation slated to take part in festivities from June 29 through July 6.

Charlestown residents rally against MBTA cuts: A group of Charlestown residents attended a on the MBTA’s proposed cuts this week to tell the authority that they want to see neither the 92 bus nor the ferry cut.

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ZBA denies 40 Warren plans, developer to try again: Vahid Nickpour, owner of the parking garage at 40 Warren Street, said this week that he intends to plans and restart the approval process after the ZBA told him that his .

2011 a bad year for crime at Sullivan: Crime handled and recorded by MBTA transit police at Community College remained about the same in 2011 as in 2010, with five crimes recorded in each year, while .

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(No) Surprise! Charlestown has high rents: Boston rents are the 5th highest of any city in the nation, according to Reis Inc., a New-York-based firm quoted in this Boston Globe article, and the news from Rentjuice, a San Francisco tech company that aggregates real estate data and makes real estate software, .


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