Top Stories: BUILDing Entrepreneurs and a Local Goes National

We know it’s easy to fall behind on the news. If you fell behind this week, here are five stories we think you should be paying attention to.

BUILDing a Better Future in Charlestown: We kicked off a series this week about a California non-profit that has with the mission to turn would-be dropouts into .

One of Charlestown’s Own Skates for National Team:  Charlestown Youth Hockey players went to Northeastern University recently to, a kid who came from the neighborhood, play with some of the best youth hockey players in the country.

Charlestown Community Objects to MBTA Cuts: As more people became aware of the MBTA’s service cut proposals, we started hearing more about locals’ objections. We had a lot of action on the cuts this week. So, we rounded them up into .

Recent Shooting Likely Drug Related: Boston Police reports revealed that a warranted search of a nearby apartment related to last week’s shooting found that could be used for preparing the drugs for resale.

Woman Gets Unfortunate Package in Mail: While the week after New Years wasn’t as eventful as our police news category might suggest, it did yield this gem: a woman reported to police that someone . She also received a note, she told police, criticizing her ability to clean up after her animals.