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The Farm will be expanded with funding from the City of Boston’s Grassroots Program and Community Preservation Act Funding to support more climate-smart and community-sensitive urban agriculture and increase the availability of fresh food in East Boston
BOSTON - June 30, 2021- Mayor Kim Janey joined the East Boston community to celebrate all the work Eastie Farm, Inc.,...
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Development delivers 22 deeply affordable rental units and 30 homeownership units for mixed-income residents
BOSTON - Monday, July 12, 2021 - Mayor Kim Janey today joined the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), WinnCompanies and MassHousing to celebrate the opening of a new mixed income community on the East Boston waterfront. The $30 million Harborwalk development replaced 20 units of...
News Round-up:
Commonwealth Magazine: Sources: Boncore eyeing MassBio job
Boston Business Journal (Gated): Boncore poised to leave Senate to head MassBio
State House News Service: Boncore poised to leave Senate for life sciences post
This just in from the Jeffries Point Neighoborhood Association:
JPNA 2021 Summer PicnicMonday, July 19th 6:30 pm
In lieu of our annual July potluck, we'll be holding a neighborhood picnic this year. Bring your own camp chair or blanket, food, and drink, and come spend an evening outdoors with your neighbors. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
JPNA Survey on Meeting...
The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women recently announced the Virtual Celebration of the Commonwealth Heroine Class of 2021. The Commonwealth Heroines are women who don’t make the news, but make the difference.
Thousands of women in every community of the state perform unheralded acts on a daily basis that make our homes, neighborhoods, cities, and towns better places...
The Boston Business Journal reports:
"In the past few years, much of East Boston’s new residential construction has taken advantage of skyline views across the harbor.
Now, a proposed 426-unit project would move that new growth inland to Route 1A a block from Santarpio’s Pizza.
The Bremen & Orleans project, as the development is named, would take the place of surface parking...
Eastie Week is a celebration of the rich, vibrant, and resilient community of East Boston – its people, history, culture, music, and art. This year we’re delighted and honored to announce the Eighth Annual Eastie Week celebration. Stay tuned for an updated schedule of FREE and low-cost, family-friendly community-led activities hosted by East Boston organizations and partners.
Learn more at...
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BOSTON - Following last week’s announcement that Gabriela Coletta will be joining the New England Aquarium as their external relations manager, City Councilor Lydia Edwards has announced that Ricardo Patrón will become her new chief of staff. He first joined Councilor Edwards’ staff shortly after her inauguration in 2018 as her East Boston community liaison and took...
BOSTON, MA – On Monday, Ruthzee Louijeune, candidate for Boston City Council At-Large, announced that she had received the endorsement of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. On Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign, Louijeune served as her Senior Counsel.
“Ruthzee is the advocate working families need on the Boston City Council. As a lawyer and Boston native, she fought to uplift the diverse...
Boston voters appear likely to make history by electing the city’s first-ever female mayor this fall, according to a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of likely September preliminary election voters taken June 23-26.
Of the eight candidates who will appear on the September 14 preliminary election ballot, voters’ top four choices were women: Boston At-Large Councilor Michelle Wu (23%), Acting Mayor...
Santiago calls for City Hall to publicly finance affordable housing and for 25% of new development to be homeownership opportunities for families making less than $100k
BOSTON — Today, Rep. Jon Santiago announced his affordable housing and equity platform, a bold vision focused on protecting, preserving, and expanding affordable housing, homeownership opportunities, and stabilizing the renter class.
For Santiago, the issue...
Hockey legend Bobby Orr recently visited Station A-7 in East Boston.
The guys and gals on duty were one lucky group. So many of us are really jealous! Bobby Orr is a class act!
Read more at BPDNews.
Statement from City Councilor Lydia Edwards 6/22
COUNCILOR EDWARDS CELEBRATES CHIEF OF STAFF GABRIELA COLETTA’S NEW POSITION WITH NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
BOSTON - After nearly four years of service to District One, Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards announced Chief of Staff Gabriela Coletta will move on to her next role as External Relations Manager for the New England Aquarium’s downtown waterfront...
