This legislative session Senator Lydia Edwards has filed legislation that will enshrine the status of ride-share app drivers as employees into law, allow people to seal prior eviction records, set clear & safe standards for nurse staffing, ensure that in-home childcare is no longer affected by over-burdensome restrictions, and officially recognize February 4th as Rosa Parks Day. In total...
Date: February 7, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
East Boston, Massachusetts
The East Boston Republican Ward Committee will hold its bimonthly meeting Tuesday evening, February 7, 2023. The meeting will be at Kelley Square Pub at 84 Bennington Street (at the corner of Marion Street) in East Boston starting at 6:30 p. m.
Registered East Boston Republicans and unenrolled voters are...
Editor's Note: Located on Eagle Hill, next to the city yards and the soon-to-be built Eversource substation.
Boston Herald on the new police station for East Boston
BOSTON - Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - Mayor Michelle Wu today joined Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, Chief of Operations Dion Irish, police officers, and community leaders for a ribbon cutting of the...
Acquisition of 114 affordable units helps fight displacement in Eastie with innovative approach
By Elena Eberwein
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
(EAST BOSTON- January 21, 2023) A long-sought goal of preserving affordable housing in East Boston just became easier thanks to an innovative, collaborative project made possible by multiple players.
Late last year, a consortium of organizations came together to purchase a portfolio of properties...
Defendant used stolen identity to apply for apartment and pandemic relief loan
BOSTON – A former Everett man was sentenced yesterday in connection with multiple schemes to fraudulently obtain an apartment as well as pandemic-related relief funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security...
Hanover, MA – January 23, 2023 –Rockland Trust is pleased to announce the launch of its 19th Annual Scholarship Program, which is open to students who are enrolling in a part-time or full-time undergraduate study program for the first time at an accredited two or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year (2023-2024). This...
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Police release information on missing East Boston woman.
From Boston25News:
SOMERVILLE, Mass — Two days after the Latino community pressured police to do more to find 41-year-old Reina Morales Rojas, they searched a home on Alston Street in Somerville.
Police say the neighborhood on Alston Street is the last place where Rojas was seen two months ago. Boston 25 News...
Massachusetts Unemployment & Job Estimates for December
BOSTON, MA – January 20, 2023 – The state’s December total unemployment rate was 3.3 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point over-the-month, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary job estimates indicate Massachusetts gained 6,300 jobs in December. This follows last month’s revised gain...
By MICHAEL FREEDBERGSPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
Update 1/23/2023:Mayor Wu’s small-ball rent “stabilization” proposal
Since her days on the campaign trail, Mayor Wu has talked up some form of rent price control. Now, one year into her term as Mayor, she has put forward a proposal quite limited in scope. Certainly, her plan isn’t the sweeping price halt that some of us felt...
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Police have released new photographs of an East Boston woman who has been missing since November 2022 in a renewed effort to locate her.
41-year-old Reina Morales Rojas was last seen entering a car on Bennington Street in East Boston and was dropped off on Allston Street in Somerville on November 26, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office....
From WGBH:
Greg Wilmot, the CEO of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, said the new office allows the center to more quickly respond to people’s concerns.
“The Office of Patient Advocate serves as an additional resource for more for our community members and our patients to be able to share their feedback around their experiences with the health center,”...
by Anissa Patel
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
Green never used to be my favorite color. I grew up in the suburbs, taking for granted the hundreds of acres of conservation land that I lived behind. Now, as a high school senior at the Winsor School in the heart of the Longwood Medical Area, I’ve discovered that my everyday color palette has changed...
by Sal Giarratani
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
I've always been a fan of Sal Baglio's music going back some 40 years now. I remember seeing him on stage at the Inman Square Men's Bar going back 40 years ago over in Cambridge. He was a local rocker out of East Boston and his band had a sound that was late 70s, 80s....
EAST BOSTON, Mass., (January 9, 2023) — East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for its third cohort of residents to join its Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Residency Program. This residency program aims to expand the pool of primary care providers who are well-prepared and committed to serving underserved populations.
EBNHC was one...
