East Boston player wins the prestigious Boston City League 2022 Boston Bruins Sportsmanship Award.
Read more at East Boston High School News.
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 gain admission to New York University. An academically gifted first-generation college student, Jada and her family were passionate that she should reach her potential, but...
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 on Beacon Hill, there is one proposal, in particular, that remains more ominous due to its silent progression in the state legislature since last year...
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 in the purchase of a home on Webster Street was filled with trepidation and risk taking. The house we bought in for under $100,000 needed...
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 well and that you are enjoying the beautiful spring weather. I am here on a Saturday afternoon watering my seedlings.
I, along with our board of...
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 Airport.
Interviews with flight attendants indicate there are even more, marketed on private Facebook groups like “Boston Crew Commuter Apartments” and “Boston Crashpads New,” where users...
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 flood at very high tides and so do the basements of local residences. If seas continue to rise, as is generally assumed, much of “Eastie”...
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 be getting more of them thanks to a renewed emphasis on expanding the city’s tree canopy, which supporters say will improve public health and provide...
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 Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary job estimates indicate Massachusetts gained 21,000 jobs in March. This follows last...
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 time. This marathon will be her 3rd World Major Marathon.
“Pine Street’s vision of a permanent home and community for everyone has carried me throughout the...
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 for seniors and part of the national Program of All-Inclusive Care for adults 55 and older. As Assistant Vice President, Sanabria will oversee strategy and...
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 and Orient Heights stations with alternate shuttle bus service provided.
(BOSTON, April 11, 2022) – Between April 25 and May 8, Blue Line service will be...
Now in its 21st year, the organization provides experiential learning opportunities for Pre- K to 12th-grade educators across the U.S.
The Fund for Teachers (FFT) recently announced the names of public, private and charter school teachers to receive $1.19 million in grants for self-designed summer fellowships and experiential learning opportunities.
Curtis Guild K-6 teacher Jeffrey Timberlake is one 298 teachers chosen...
In their own words
Gabriela "Gigi" Coletta: "I'm a daughter of District 1"
Tania Del Rio: "We are on the precipice of real change"
Tania Del Rio (l) and Gabriella Coletta (r).
