East Boston's Lydia Edwards has been named one of the Most Impactful Black Women in 2021 by Get Konnected, a social impact venture.
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Monday, April 12th, 20217:00 - 8:30 pmZoom Video Conference
REGISTRATION REQUIRED! PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS MEETING.
In order to speak aloud as an abutter, you must register for this meeting by Sunday, April 11th at 7pm.
PLEASE NOTEIn order to qualify to vote at a voting meeting each person must be registered and join the meeting as an individual....
Reception:Saturday, April 3, 2-5pm (outside weather permitting)*masks required, and social distancing will be observed in gallery
Gallery Hours:Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pmor by appointment,(857-302-8363)
Ready-Set-Go! Two Boston artists open borderlines and offer innumerable possibilites for shape shifts. Marjorie Kaye and Christine Palamidessi’s “Sensations of Soaring”, at Atlantic Works Gallery during the month of April, push constructs of form up and out...
Post-Gazette Archives
110 years ago, an Italian immigrant who arrived in Boston from San Valentino Torio, Salerno when he was only sixteen years old saw the realization of his fondest dreams, to establish an Italian language newspaper that would be the genuine voice of the increasing flow of Italians to the United States. The boy was James V. Donnaruma, the...
Earlier this week, Community Service Officers assigned to District A-7 (East Boston) successfully and safely hosted a hockey skills program, despite the ongoing pandemic, in a coordinated effort with the Boston Police Athletic Association (PAL) and FMC Ice Sports at the Porrazzo Memorial Rink in East Boston. Read more at BPDNews.
BOSTON - Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - Mayor Kim Janey was sworn into office today as the 55th Mayor of the City of Boston during an intimate City Hall ceremony that was attended by close friends and family. Mayor Janey, who makes history as the first woman and the first Black mayor in Boston’s history, was administered the oath...
"It is also extremely frustrating that many of us give a lot of our time to go to abutters meetings, attend our local civic association meetings to vote in support or opposition of projects, participate in community charettes or serve on the advisory board of Plan East Boston, run our own community-based organizations, only to time and again be...
East Boston News
BOSTON, MA – Women, a historically underrepresented group in the building trades workforce, now comprise 10% of all union building trade apprentices in Massachusetts. This is among the highest figures in the country, tripling the national average and representing a two-fold increase since 2012.
The new figures were released just days ahead of International Women's Day on March...
StreetsBlog: "On Sunday, the T reduced the number of daily train trips on the Red, Orange, and Green lines by up to 20 percent. On the Blue Line, where ridership has been higher during the pandemic, trips have been reduced by 5 percent." Read more over at StreetBlog.
The following is from an October 27, 1995 Press Release from The Bostonian Society. Editor's note: The Bostonian Society no longer exists. The Bostonian Society's resources were merged with Revolutionary Spaces in January 2020.
The Penny Ferry
East Boston History
Hugh O'Brien…Maverick … Daniel Webster…Noddle Island… The People's Ferry. The history of both Boston proper and East Boston are reflected in...
(BOSTON, March 15, 2021) - Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards has filed a pair of measures aimed at making city government more transparent, accessible, and modern. The first is an ordinance filed with Councilor Liz Breadon that would allow for permanent remote participation from the public during city meetings.
"The inaccessibility of most government meetings is a pre-pandemic inequity that...
