Top Stories: Local Writes a Memoir, Burritos on Main?

We know that it can be easy to fall behind on the news. If you fell behind this week, here are five stories we think you should take a look at.

Former townie pens memoir: The 1950s and 1960s were a different time in Charlestown, and a recently-released memoir called “” recounts one youth’s experience during that patch of history.

St. Francis de Sales as Old as the Civil War: Charlestown Patch this week resurrected its old feature, @ This Address. Writer Helen O’Neil decided to start her reboot with a look at the church.

Visions of Vacancy: We also kicked off a new feature this week where we ask you across town. We started with an empty bay on Main Street. The prompt triggered a lot of discussion.

Local man scares off car thief: A Charlestown resident looked out his window recently to see a . The resident ran outside and scared away the would-be thief, but he made it away without being caught.

MGH joins ‘Save the Ferry’ chorus: MGH Institute President Janis Bellack on February 8, 2012, sent the following letter detailing the Boston health sciences graduate school's reasons why the MBTA should not cut services, as it is considering. The institute then published the piece as an  last week.