The shop - which aims to boost local morale - is open Wednesday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and weekends from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Shoppers can browse Christmas trees until Dec. 13 or while they last.

Approximately 45 people gathered on Monday night at the Morville House in Fenway to hold a public meeting concerning the planned renovation of Boston Fenway Inn into a temporary Emerson College dormitory. On...