A reflection on the passing of John L Forbes who served as director of the East Boston Social Centers for so many years.
EastBoston.com was there when then Mayor Thomas M. Menino opened the new facility on Bremen Street. Watch this slide show.
It did not take long after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis for opinions on race relations to change. Our recent survey looked at how Bay State residents viewed the health of racial harmony both here in Massachusetts and throughout the US and we found that many feel it has deteriorated.
According to a May 2020 Princeton Research Associates...
by Frank Conte
For 30 years, Frank Schirripa and his brother Rocco, along with their brother-in-law, Rocco Petrola, could be found unloading a truck of produce for the Meridian Food Market. Nothing ever stopped the owners of this small but popular market on busy Meridian Street from getting up for a 6 a.m. opening. In snow, sleet, rain, the heat,...
Judge Joseph Vincent Ferrino, Sr. passed away peacefully on November 22, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Born in 1926 in Boston, MA, he was a child of Sicilian parents who immigrated to the Boston area via Ellis Island around 1910. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his wife of over 60 years, Marie A. (“Jeanette”) Ferrino, his brother,...
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Originally published January 18, 2021
Source: DOJ
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 11, 2020
BOSTON – A Colombian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for cocaine trafficking and illegal reentry charges.
Ricardo Lopera-Arteaga, 59, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to five years in prison and four years of supervised release. Lopera-Arteaga will be subject to deportation proceedings upon...
One killed in East Boston stabbing, another fighting for life in Roxbury assault
BOSTON, December 29, 2020 — Arraignments took place yesterday in two Suffolk County courts in connection with separate Christmas Eve attacks. In a Roxbury courtroom, a man was arraigned in the near-fatal beating of a senior citizen inside the victim’s own home, while the man charged with...
Lupo's world gone by
Reviewed by Robert Strelitz
This book of vignettes from the author's life is small but touchingly evocative of the lost world of second and third-generation Jews whose immediate roots went back to Russia and Central Europe. Before the Nazi Holacaust (often referred to by Jews as the Shoah or consuming flame), literally millions of Jews lived in...
December 5-26, 2020
Melissa Shook:
a Commemorative Exhibition
A retrospective of work by the late artist
Curated by Krissy Shook
Reception: Saturday, December 12, 2-6pm
Please join Krissy Shook and Atlantic Works Galleryin celebration and memory of artist and gallery member Melissa Shook
Masks and social distancing required. Gallery will be monitored to limit visitors at any given time.
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm or by appointment, (323-304-9968)
In light of surging COVID-19 rates, record-high food insecurity, Union’s donations bring joy to families facing economic and health impacts of the pandemic
BOSTON, MA — Pipefitters Local 537, one of Boston’s largest unions, held a charitable drive Saturday at their Union Hall to collect donations to aid struggling community members this holiday season. The initiative comes at a...
Aisha Miller new Chief of Civic Engagement
Photo: Courtesy City Hall
BOSTON - Monday, November 30, 2020 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the appointment of Aisha Miller as the Chief of Civic Engagement for the City of Boston, effective Monday, December 7, 2020.
The Civic Engagement Cabinet is composed of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, the Mayor's Office of...
