From the archives (1983): Jeveli’s adds new dining room.
Update 11/27/2022: The iconic restaurant closes as it completes an auction of its equipment. Closing a chapter on the city's oldest Italian Restaurant.
Update 11/9: According to several sources Jeveli's is only going into winter...
Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefit Program Launches For Eligible Workers in Massachusetts
BOSTON – The Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) today announced that workers eligible for Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) may begin filing certain benefit requests on January 1, 2021, in accordance...
R.I.P. John L. Forbes, former Executive Director of the East Boston Social Centers
A reflection on the passing of John L Forbes who served as director of the East Boston Social Centers for so many years.
From the Archives: Menino opens new East Boston Branch of the Public Library on...
EastBoston.com was there when then Mayor Thomas M. Menino opened the new facility on Bremen Street. Watch this slide show.
Conte: Survey data says race relations in MA have worsened
It did not take long after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis for opinions on race relations to change. Our recent survey looked at how Bay State residents viewed the health of racial...
EastBoston.com Archives: Leaving a legacy of quality, Schirripa family sells landmark Meridian Food Market
by Frank Conte
For 30 years, Frank Schirripa and his brother Rocco, along with their brother-in-law, Rocco Petrola, could be found unloading a truck of produce for the Meridian Food Market. Nothing ever stopped the...
PRA Poll: Support for keeping Columbus Day is strong among Massachusetts voters
Posted by Frank Conte, Data Specialist at Princeton Research Associates.
Obituary: Judge Joseph Ferrino
Judge Joseph Vincent Ferrino, Sr. passed away peacefully on November 22, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Born in 1926 in Boston, MA, he was a child of Sicilian parents who immigrated to the Boston area via...
NOAH’s Annual Meeting this year is virtual: January 21, 2021
Register at this link: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ehf2ltbx3d17cf94&oseq=&c=&ch=
For more information visit http://www.noahcdc.org
Originally published January 18, 2021
Some Election Results State Primary 2020 for East Boston including Markey versus Kennedy
This entry was originally published on September 3, 2020.
DOJ: Colombian National Sentenced for Cocaine Trafficking and Illegal Reentry
Source: DOJ
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 11, 2020
BOSTON – A Colombian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for cocaine trafficking and illegal reentry charges.
Ricardo Lopera-Arteaga, 59, was sentenced by U.S. District...
Rollins: Suspect in East Boston murder will be held without bail
One killed in East Boston stabbing, another fighting for life in Roxbury assault
BOSTON, December 29, 2020 — Arraignments took place yesterday in two Suffolk County courts in connection with separate Christmas Eve attacks. In...
From the Archives: Robert Strelitz reviews Alan Lupo’s “The Messiah Comes Tomorrow”
Lupo's world gone by
Reviewed by Robert Strelitz
This book of vignettes from the author's life is small but touchingly evocative of the lost world of second and third-generation Jews whose immediate roots went back to...
Melissa Shook: a Commemorative Exhibition
December 5-26, 2020
Melissa Shook:
a Commemorative Exhibition
A retrospective of work by the late artist
Curated by Krissy Shook
Reception: Saturday, December 12, 2-6pm
Please join Krissy Shook and Atlantic Works Galleryin celebration and memory of artist and gallery...
