BOSTON - Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - Today, Mayor Michelle Wu, in partnership with Massport, announced the opening of a new city-owned senior center in East Boston, located at 7 Bayswater Street. Mayor Wu joined Massport, elected officials and community members involved with advocating for the new center at a ribbon cutting Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of...
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen among five community programs receiving assistance.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is again lending a hand to neighbors in East Boston, South Boston, Winthrop and Worcester through their annual food drive to help feed families this holiday season. Massport employees donated over 40 boxes filled with hundreds of non-perishable food items including cereals,...
EAST BOSTON (November 19, 2022) A few dozen residents and city officials gathered Saturday morning to honor Joseph Puopolo whose remains were returned to family members recently. The newly-dedicated square is located just doors away from where Puopolo grew up. Read more about Puopolo and his niece's eulogy here. Photographs by Frank Conte for EastBoston.com
Supporters gather to celebrate the work of one of East Boston's lasting institutions.
A wonderful evening catered by the club's youth who demonstrated poise, courtesy and respect serving the patrons young and old.
by PATRICK SYNAN
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
In the basement of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church on Paris Street, just a block from East Boston’s Maverick Square, a few dozen residents gathered Saturday afternoon to hear the leader of an emergent social movement in El Salvador, The Popular Rebellion and Resistance Bloc (BRP). For decades, East Boston has been a major site of...
by MIKE FREEDBERG
SPECIAL TO EASTBOSTON.COM
For two years now, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) and once known as the Boston Redevelopment Authority has been working on what it calls “PLAN East Boston” whereby the entire neighborhood will be re-zoned, re-designed, re-shaped, and maybe re-configured. Needless to say, PLAN East Boston is ambitious.
Many residents will almost certainly not like...
BOSTON, Massachusetts - Private First Class Joseph J. Puopolo will be honored with a heroes square in East Boston on Saturday, Nov 19, 2022 at 10:00am. This ceremony will officially name the corner of Bennington St and Putnam Street Joseph J. Puopolo Square.
Puopolo was born on February 2, 1932 and lived in East Boston Massachusetts. Puopolo was 17 years...
WellSense Health Plan to become the largest Medicaid health plan in the state, covering more than 500,000 MassHealth members in eight ACO partnerships across Massachusetts
BOSTON – WellSense Health Plan, part of Boston Medical Center Health System, has been selected by the Baker-Polito Administration to expand its participation in the Accountable Care Organization program, doubling the number of its MassHealth...
Last Tuesday Sen. Edwards continued the more than 50 year tradition of the Santarpio's Election Day lunch, and was the first woman to host it.
The following officials were in attendance: US Senator Markey, US Rep. Katherine Clark, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, AG Maura Healey now Governor-elect, Mayor Kim Driscoll now LG Elect, Treasurer Deb Goldberg, Mayor Michelle Wu, Suffolk...
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The state body in charge of approving energy projects looks poised to allow the utility Eversource to bypass the 14 remaining environmental permits it needs for a controversial substation in East Boston.
In a draft decision released this week, the state’s Energy Facilities Siting Board says it recommends approval of a special certificate "to ensure that the substation can be built...
EAST BOSTON — Thursday, November 10, 2022 — Mayor Michelle Wu and former Red Sox World Series winning pitcher and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Pedro Martinez visited East Boston High School to talk with students and Principal Phillip Brangiforte.
East Boston High School has one of the highest percentages of English Language Learners in the Boston Public Schools. The...
East Boston News Archive: June 3, 1992
by Frank Conte
Senator Michael LoPresti retires with the belief that he is perhaps the only elected official in the area never to have lost an election. Since winning a special election in 1973 held to choose a successor to Judge Mario Umana, LoPresti, following in his father's footsteps, was mildly threatened only three...
