Greenway to meet October 28, 2021
The next Greenway Council meeting is on Thursday, October 28th at 6:30PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting to get the Zoom link. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdeGppjMiHdR-5WDsEB_GIfz83D_EADZh
AGENDA
Welcome + Intros
Police Report
Greenway Project updates
Caboose + Ice Cream
Bulbs + planting day
Halloween Signs
Wayfinding...
Massachusetts Unemployment & Job Estimates for September
BOSTON, MA – October 22, 2021 – The state’s September total unemployment rate increased by two-tenths of a percentage point at 5.2 percent, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary job estimates indicate Massachusetts gained 11,900 jobs in September. This follows last month’s revised gain...
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Period
In promoting free bus service for the MBTA and Regional Transit Agencies, well-meaning advocates ignore the direct and indirect costs associated with such a plan. Removing fares eliminates a revenue stream transit agencies need to maintain current levels of service.
Free bus service sounds wonderful — and yes, it may bring...
East Boston News
Update: October 27, 2021: EdVestors Awards $100,000 School on the Move Prize to the James Otis Elementary School in East Boston
EdVestors to Award $100,000 School on the Move Prize Live During Oct. 27th Hybrid Ceremony
Mayor Janey and BPS Superintendent Cassellius will recognize three finalist Boston schools and announce winner to live audience during hybrid ceremony
WHAT: EdVestors will...
BOSTON - Saturday, October 16, 2021 - Today, Mayor Janey announced the selection of two recipients for the Community Clean Air Grants, a program offered by the Environment Department and the Air Pollution Control Commission. The program has awarded two grants totaling $96,134 to Mothers Out Front East Boston and the Home Energy Efficiency Team for their locally-driven projects...
INVITING THE EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY
I'm excited to share with you an upcoming dialogue that my friends and I are promoting— "Go big on nuclear power in Massachusetts," for CivilDialogues.org and MassDialogues. The dialogue in the form of a virtual event will take place on Wednesday, October 20 at 2 p.m. ET.
Twenty percent of our power nationally comes from nuclear...
EAST BOSTON NEWS
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center offers COVID-19 vaccinations, including BOOSTER doses at 79 Paris Street, East Boston. Call 617-568-4500 to schedule an appointment or Schedule on line at bit.ly/EBNHCvax for first and booster doses.
If this is not your first COVID-19 dose, bring your vaccination card with you to your appointment.
We welcome patients as well as non-patients 12 and older....
Support an East Boston institution. For decades, the Salesian Boys and Clubs have served thousands of local youth with a variety of programs.
Special to EastBoston.com
by DOMENIC AMARA
Over two hundred people join at a wreath laying ceremony in Boston last Monday, Columbus Day, at the site where the marble statue of Christopher Columbus was removed after being vandalized last year. They assembled in spite of an order that banned the celebration of Columbus Day in Boston. The Executive order was hatched...
By the late Michael Laurano
Reprinted by permission
In East Boston as in many communities with a heavy Italian immigrant population in the American northeast until fairly recently we rarely called it "Pasta". Although we knew all right that it was generically "pasta" "Macaroni" instead was the usual term we as children most often employed for our favorite foodstuff no matter...
EAST BOSTON NEWS
From the Boston Herald:
When COVID hit 18 months ago, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center President and CEO Manny Lopes braced for its impact with his staff of more than 1,400 people.
“We gave them the freedom to think creatively because we knew this was going to be the pandemic of our lifetime,” said Lopes, who last week was...
by RICARDO ORPHANOS
Marvelous. Beautiful. Beyond Parisian reality. Leonel Messi scored his first goal for PSG against the premier league champions, Manchester City, in the Parc des Princes.
The Argentine super star did not disappoint as Messi and his team topped Man city 2-0.
During the First half of the game, Man City was all over PSG as they kept possession of...
The Deed is Done:
From the Boston Herald:
Wednesday’s move — or, more specifically, even the hint that it was coming, after Janey put out her public schedule Tuesday night saying that there would be an event involving an executive order for Indigenous Peoples Day — immediately drew pushback.
Diane Modica, a former city councilor now with the Sons and Daughters of...
