About Our Publication
A Little Beacon Blog started in 2011 as an attempt to capture all of the event flyers, yard signs and other event postings around town. A daunting but tempting task, many have tried, and some have remained. There is even a home-grown Things To Do In Beacon Guides on the vacant storefront windows of the newly old Rite Aid building.
ALBB created the original Things To Do In Beacon Guides, where happenings are organized into Shopping, Restaurants, Beauty, Classes, Pop-Up Shops, Free Parking Lots, and Summer Camps.
Wanting to be more invested in the community, we opened a storefront office on Main Street at 291 Main Street in the original Telephone Building. From there, we rented out our space to other entrepreneurs and businesses for pop-up shops, workshops and business retreats. The building sold to a new owner, and we left one month before the COVID shutdown.
Meanwhile, while out at community events meeting people face to face from behind our face painting table, several people asked for us to focus on the more pressing issues, such as evictions, affordability, unsolved murders, under-discussed shootings, city government, school issues., and more.
ALBB now covers local news while weaving in global and national news to speak to diasporas living in Beacon and the region. We highlight Palestine, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, social justice, and the safety of trans and LGBTQ+ communities.
ALBB’s founder Katie Hellmuth under our Face Paint table one Juneteenth at Pete & Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park..
