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Reference materials 448 Beacon Street Boston MA United States1769 Washington Street Boston MA United StatesChurch of Scientology of Boston
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Apr 12, 2011
Demolition brings Church of Scientology closer to building new Boston HQ — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Cara Bayles
Source: Boston Globe
Demolition began last week on the old Ivory Bean House on Washington Street. After the building began shedding bricks in February, the city's Inspectional Services Department ordered the Bean's owner, the Church of Scientology, to demolish the structure. As far as the church is concerned, it had gotten what it had wanted since it purchased the building in 2008. "Nobody disagrees that the building is in terrible disrepair," said Marc LaCasse, the attorney for the Church of Scientology in Boston. "Its ...
Mar 18, 2011
Demolition imminent for unstable Washington Street building — South End News (Massachusetts)
Type: Press
Author(s): Alix Roy
Source: South End News (Massachusetts)
The Church of Scientology has hired a demolition contractor to take down the historic Ivory Bean building. A historic Washington Street building owned by the Church of Scientology is expected to be demolished next week after bricks fell from the structure last month, prompting the city to cordon off the area in the interest of public safety. According to Attorney Marc LaCasse, the Church has hired a demolition contractor and is expecting work to begin within a week’s time. A demolition ...
Feb 8, 2011
Police respond to report of bricks falling from Washington Street building — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Martin Finucane
Source: Boston Globe
Boston police have responded to a building at 1769 Washington St. for a report of bricks falling. They have cordoned off the area, and the fire department and city inspectors are taking a look at the building, said Officer Eddy Chrispin, a police spokesman. The report came in at 5:31 p.m., he said. The Globe reported in September that the Alexandra Hotel, which is at 1769 Washington, was slated for renovation as the Church of Scientology's new 45,000 square-foot headquarters. The ...
Sep 19, 2010
Mayor Menino declares war on owners of dangerous properties in wake of blaze // Crackdown targets ‘life or death’ safety hazards — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Jessica Fargen
Source: Boston Herald
City inspectors are embarking tomorrow on a daunting, unprecedented crackdown on owners of vacant and unsafe buildings as officials sound new alarms about the dangers in nearly 150 problem properties. The team from the fire, inspectional services and other departments will start in East Boston and make their way through the city, going into all 147 empty or abandoned properties deemed dangerous by the fire department. “The goal is to put the pressure on these owners of these properties to restore ...
Mar 30, 2010
Mega-million dollar Boston homes sit on market with few takers — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Source: Boston Herald
Much was made of the news this month when a Beacon Hill developer was unable to sell his home for an acceptable price, but the lack of wealthy buyers appears to be more-widespread in that neighborhood and in the Back Bay. Currently, there are seven single-family homes in Boston priced at over $10 million. The most-recent listing came on the market fifty days ago while the prize for longest is held by an historic home at 128 Commonwealth Avenue owned by ...
Jan 23, 2010
Restoration on the corner // Church of Scientology reveals its plans for Hotel Alexandra — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Preer
Source: Boston Globe
The Church of Scientology plans to open a street-level cafe, bookstore, and chapel as part of its renovation of the 19th-century Hotel Alexandra, a long-faded Gothic beauty that for years has sat mostly empty at a prominent Boston crossroads. The revived building would add more street life to a corner of the South End that is seeing more activity, and signals that the city’s desire to have the neighborhood revitalized after the removal of the elevated Orange Line on Washington Street ...
Jan 13, 2010
Scientology defector tells all — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s): Chris Faraone
Source: Boston Phoenix
If every last allegation that Church of Scientology (CoS) defector Nancy Many charges in My Billion Year Contract is true, then her book should inspire several FBI raids and a Lifetime mini-series to rival any Charles Manson documentary. But even if just some of her trials really happened — we'll leave that debate to Many and her ex-cronies — her new memoir might still be the most shocking nonfiction work featured at this week's American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in ...
Dec 16, 2009
Church of Scientology hoping South End move will clear up misconceptions — South End News (Massachusetts)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kate Lindsmith
Source: South End News (Massachusetts)
Timeframe of move remains undecided almost a year after sale of Alexandra Hotel Having spent more than three decades in the heart of the Back Bay, the Church of Scientology is still working on moving its headquarters to the South End. The church plans to renovate space in the Alexandra Hotel building and a neighboring brownstone, thus expanding its base to nearly twice the size of its current 26,000-square-foot location at 448 Beacon Street. The church bought the space in early ...
Nov 18, 2009
Scientology’s top gun pays respects — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Gayle Fee, Laura Raposa
Source: Boston Herald
Hollywood heavy Tom Cruise looked like just another member of The Firm the other night when he turned up at attorney Earle Cooley’s jam-packed memorial service at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse . The “Knight & Day” leading man, wearing a dark suit and his trademark Tinseltown smile, joined rarely seen Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige at the service for Cooley, who was the religious group’s legal Top Gun for more than 25 years. Talk about Risky Business . . ...
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 2 Entering Scientology world — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 4 New England Espionage — CNM Publishing
Oct 21, 2009
Earle Cooley, skilled litigator, chairman of BU trustees — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Bryan Marquard
Source: Boston Globe
A much-abbreviated list of Earle Cooley’s law clients might read like this: Boston University, the Celtics, and the Church of Scientology, along with divorce cases, patent infringement challenges for Fortune 500 companies, and criminal defendants who included those accused of drug dealing or murder. “He said to me: ‘Look, when you have skills as a trial lawyer, you can try anything. The rules may change from venue to venue, but show me the rules, and I’ll play,’ ’’ said his son ...
Oct 1, 2009
Travolta: Defendants demanded $25M — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Gayle Fee, Laura Raposa
Source: Boston Herald
Hollywood A-Lister John Travolta testified in a Bahamian extortion trial yesterday that he was told unless he paid $25 million, stories would be sold to the news media implying he was to blame for his is son’s death. Travolta said his longtime friend and employee Ronald Zupancic first told him of the alleged threat Jan. 16 - two weeks after Travolta’s son, Jett, 16, died of a seizure during a family vacation in the Bahamas. Former paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former ...
Oct 24, 2008
“Battling Scientology” Follow-Up — Boston Phoenix
Type: Blog
Author(s): Chris Faraone
Source: Boston Phoenix
Depending on whom you ask, Massachusetts-based protest organizer Gregg Housh had a major victory — or a significant loss — in Boston Municipal Court this Wednesday. As reported in The Phoenix this past week in the feature “Battling Scientology,” Housh faced charges of harassment, disturbing the peace, and disturbing religious worship for his involvement with the picket group Anonymous and his actions against the Boston Church of Scientology. According to an Anonymous press statement that circulated earlier this afternoon: “On October ...
Oct 23, 2008
Battling Scientology — Boston Phoenix
Oct 22, 2008
Scientology protester’s case continued without a finding — Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
Type: Blog
Author(s): David E. Frank
Source: Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
I have to admit I didn’t see this coming, but a Boston Municipal Court judge has continued without a finding the case against a man accused of disrupting proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year. On Oct. 22, Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year CWOF against Gregg Housh, who had been charged with disturbing an assembly of worship and disturbing the peace. As part of the plea, Housh was ordered to stay away from the Back ...
Oct 22, 2008
Scientology protester’s case continued without finding — Suffolk County
Type: Press release
Source: Suffolk County
SCIENTOLOGY PROTESTER’S CASE CONTINUED WITHOUT FINDING Oct. 22, 2008 A Boston Municipal Court judge today continued for one year the case against a Woburn man alleged to have disturbed proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year, and will dismiss the case if the defendant abides by certain conditions during that time. Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year continuance without a finding in the case against GREGG HOUSH (D.O.B. 10/17/76), who had been charged with disturbing an ...
Apr 29, 2008
Anonymous Boston Dude Now Well Known — Bostonist
Type: Press
Author(s): Rick Sawyer
Source: Bostonist
In the battle of creepiness, the Church of Scientology scored a decisive win against Anonymous, the shady group of internet hackers and hooligans who have spent the past few months protesting the controversial religion. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports that Gregg Housh, a member of Anonymous, will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of harassment brought by the Church of Scientology. Anonymous has become well known for protesting in Guy Fawkes masks, inspired by the comic book and movie V ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 28, 2008
Scientology case headed to BMC — Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
Type: Press
Author(s): David E. Frank
Source: Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
A previously covert member of a controversial web-based group called Anonymous is headed for Boston Municipal Court this week to face misdemeanor harassment charges for his alleged role in anti-Church of Scientology demonstrations. In an unusual case pitting First Amendment free-speech protections against an individual's right to practice religion without harassment, Anonymous member Gregg Housh is slated to be arraigned on April 30. Housh, already on probation in federal court, is charged with unlawfully participating in a series of protests between ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 25, 2008
Targeted Boston Anonymous Member Gregg Interviewed By WGBH Boston — Glosslip
Type: Commentary
Author(s): Dawn Olsen
Source: Glosslip
[Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/fQtvHqe-JIY] I have been reluctant to talk further about Gregg of Boston simply because there was so much controversy about his charges, his person and his past. I felt it was best to remain neutral. Part of the issue was related to my being aware that he had some extenuating circumstances in his past and I didn't want to be the one to draw any attention to this, simply because I didn't know the nature of what happened. Now that ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 15, 2008
Planned academy tied to Scientology // 'Cult'-linked pilot school gains $20K grant — Boston Herald
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): David Wedge
Source: Boston Herald
A proposed taxpayer-funded pilot school linked to an arm of the controversial Church of Scientology has scored a $20,000 grant from a blue-chip Hub charitable foundation, the Herald has learned. The Boston Foundation recently awarded the planning grant to the proposed "Cornerstone for Success Academy," a high school for at-risk students that would base its curriculum on a model created by Applied Scholastics International - the educational arm of the Church of Scientology. The celebrity-backed religious organization is often criticized as ...
Feb 11, 2008
Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): John S. John S.
Source: Boston Globe
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 30, 2008
New role awaits a historic eyesore // Church of Scientology buys former Alexandra Hotel — Boston Globe
More: boston.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Palmer Jr.
Source: Boston Globe
The Church of Scientology of Boston Inc. has bought the historic Alexandra Hotel building at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue in the South End and plans to relocate its local headquarters from the Back Bay, following extensive renovations. The sales price of the Alexandra - ravaged by fire in the 1993, decayed, empty, and recently eluding City Hall's hopes that it would become residences - was not disclosed by the Rev. Gerard Renna, the top Scientology representative in Boston. The church, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 14, 2007
Proselytizing on the Common - The Church of Scientology comes to town — Worcester Magazine
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Chet Williamson
Source: Worcester Magazine
For the past week, they set up big yellow tents with three snow-cone points and little flags on top on the Common right behind City Hall. From a distance you'd have thought that the circus had come to town. It didn't. It was the Church of Scientology's International Volunteer Minister Pioneer Cavalcade, a kind of roving revival tent show to spread the word of church founder L. Ron Hubbard. Emblazed across the front of the tents were the words: "Do Something ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 22, 2007
Scientology Treatment Program for Prisoners Funded by Feds — Boston University School of Public Health
Type: Commentary
Source: Boston University School of Public Health
Federal tax dollars are helping to pay for a controversial addiction-treatment program for prisoners in New Mexico based on Scientology precepts, the Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 19. The Second Chance program is billed as an alternative treatment program for nonviolent offenders and uses the principals of Scientology – such as using saunas, diet, massage and vitamins to purge the body of toxins – to fight addiction. In New Mexico, 24 of the state's 84 district judges have referred a total ...
Nov 24, 2006
Songs of joy & praise (for L. Ron Hubbard) — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Christopher Muther
Source: Boston Globe
WATERTOWN – L. Ron Hubbard, or, more accurately, 12-year-old Jacob Rosenbaum, portraying the father of Scientology, gives a high-five to a girl dressed as half a brain. Synthesized music swells behind them, and they join in a song that sounds like the Brady kids performing "Godspell" in their backyard with a script updated by Tina Fey. "Now the sun will shine," they sing in their best Up With People voices. "And we'll be just fine. Now we have got the science ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 22, 2006
A new word in literacy -- Scientology — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Adrienne P. Samuels
Source: Boston Globe
Church-run charities abound by the dozens in Roxbury, but they are not usually operated by the oft-controversial Church of Scientology, which last month kick-started classes at its Washington Street literacy center with a grand opening that offered free food and sidewalk chalk for children. The church members who staff the literacy center, in a storefront marked with bright-yellow "Boston Scientology Ministry" signs, say they wanted to do something about the increase in violence in Boston, which they attribute in part to ...
Aug 14, 2005
Curiously, an outpost of Scientology — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Johnny Diaz
Source: Boston Globe
A walk through Codman Square past the shoulder-to-shoulder houses of worship can put you in a spiritual state of mind: Greater Life Baptist Church, The Temple of Restoration, Global Ministries Christian Church. But one storefront in particular, with its eight-pointed cross, has piqued local curiosity. ''Dorchester Scientology, Something Can Be Done About It," a poster on its window declares. Amid the 35 churches and temples in the Codman Square area, Dorchester Scientology opened a year ago as a satellite of the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 30, 2005
The press vs. Scientology — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Joe Strupp
Source: Salon
After years of conflict, the church and the media seem to have reached a truce. Is it because Scientology has become less confrontational — or because the press is scared? For anyone interested in the Church of Scientology, the May 6, 1991, issue of Time magazine remains a milestone in news coverage. For those who back the church, it ran an outrageously biased account that eventually led to a libel suit by the church — later dismissed — and prompted Scientology ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 16, 2005
In Indonesia, Some Groups Mix Relief, Religion — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Farah Stockman
Source: Boston Globe
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — In a tent near the center of town, under a banner that reads ''trauma center," volunteer ministers from the Church of Scientology administer their brand of grief counseling to tsunami victims, which includes massages. In another tent, at a mosque several miles down a main road, members of a militant Islamic group known for attacking bars and nightclubs during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, prepare to give thousands of homeless people a heavy dose of religious counseling. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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