Update: Thanks supporters — Congratulations! Meet the new District 1 city councilor: Gabriela Gigi...
Results (Link to the City of Boston's Election Department)
The following statement was released by Gabriela Gigi Coletta on May 4, 2022
Friend,
You have heard me say this before, and I will say it again with...
5/3/22 is Special Election Day. Voters head to polls to elect new district councilor
For District 1 City Council
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May 7: Stand up for Eastie to hold meet & greet for its petition...
Stand Up For Eastie would like to invite all residents to a meetup on Saturday, May 7th.
Stand Up For Eastie is a grass-roots group that educates East Boston residents on the legalities and zoning...
East Boston HS Jets hockey captain Andy Qiu earns Bruins honors
East Boston player wins the prestigious Boston City League 2022 Boston Bruins Sportsmanship Award.
Read more at East Boston High School News.
East Boston resident gives back to the mentoring organization that helped her get into...
A decade after meeting her mentors, Jada Alexander is now a Program Manager at Minds Matter of Boston
Boston, MA (April 29, 2022) – In 2012, East Boston resident Jada Alexander overcame the odds to...
Guest Column: The Most Silent Threat to Property Rights Keeps Creeping Forward on Beacon...
by AMIR SHAHSAVARI
Despite the end of another cold winter in Massachusetts, many small property owners still feel the chill of hostile housing proposals, which would violate their property rights. Among the proposals heard...
1994 Part 2: Life on the Blue Line
by CHARLES GIULIANO
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
From the roof deck of our three-decker in working-class East Boston, we had a million-dollar view of the harbor and Boston skyline.
The search for affordable housing in 1994 that resulted...
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen names Elena Jimenez new executive director
This just in from an April 23, 20220 email from Sandra Aleman Nijjar and EBCSK Board of Directors
"Dear friends of our East Boston Community Soup Kitchen (EBCSK), I hope my email finds you doing...
WGBH: “Crashpads all over East Boston”
From WGBH:
"After Boston inspectors shut down an illegal East Boston crashpad earlier this month, GBH News identified over a dozen crashpads in East Boston, all located within a couple miles of Logan International...
Freedberg: Mayor Wu’s East Boston Climate Change Plan: What’s Missing?
by MIKE FREEDBERGSPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
East Boston is seriously challenged by sea rise.
Whether the cause is nature’s doing or of human waste is a matter of some debate and much agenda evangelizing. Yet streets now...
Coming to East Boston, more trees and more equity! Neighborhood currently has the fewest...
Creating equity through trees
By ELENA EBERWEIN
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
Some of the city’s neighborhoods, like East Boston, need more trees according to Boston Parks and Recreation and other organizations. And after several studies, East Boston may...
Massachusetts Unemployment & Job Estimates for March: U-Rate at 4.3 percent; Jobs up 21,000
Massachusetts Unemployment & Job Estimates for March
BOSTON, MA – April 15, 2022 – The state’s March total unemployment rate dropped by four-tenths of a percentage point at 4.3 percent over the month, the Executive...
Eastie’s Kate Stover is running in the Boston Marathon to benefit the Pine Street...
An East Boston resident, Kate Stover, will be running the Boston Marathon for Pine Street Inn, New England’s largest homeless service organization.
Kate is running the Boston Marathon for Pine Street Inn for the 1st...
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center Appoints Andreina Sanabria as Assistant VP of Neighborhood PACE
Boston, MA (April 12, 2022) – East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) today announced that Andreina Sanabria has been appointed to the role of Assistant Vice President of Neighborhood PACE, a home care solution...
Upcoming Suspensions of Blue Line service for repairs: Between April 25 and May 8...
Between April 25 and May 8, service will be suspended between Airport and Bowdoin stations with alternate shuttle bus and ferry services provided.
Between May 12 and May 29, service will be suspended between Wonderland...
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Massachusetts Unemployment & Job Estimates for July 2022: 3.5 percent unemployment...
Boston, MA — August 19, 2022– The state’s July total unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a percentage point at 3.5 percent over-the-month, the...
