Month: July 2017

Eastie Week

Danielle Vecchio (front) looks within during a meditative portion of the Kundalini yoga class, led by yoga instructor Peggy McClellan, at the East Boston Social Centers on Thursday, July 13, as part of Eastie Week. The event was a combined…

NOAH Holds Second Climate Ready Workshop

By John Lynds Amphitheater-like seating on the water’s edge, community swimming pool docks, hilly lawns, a living marsh were some of the ideas that community members came up with at East Boston’s Neighborhood of Affordable Housing’s first Climate Ready Workshop…

BPDA Approves Three Local Projects

By John Lynds At last week’s Boston Planning and Development Agency’s (BPDA) July meeting.  officials approved three East Boston projects that will add 161 residential units to the neighborhood. The board approved the projects at 114 Orleans St., 99 Sumner…

Letter to the Editor

We need to work together to solve the opioid crisis TO THE EDITOR, As a Reagan Democrat who voted for Donald Trump last November, I am not a Trumpocrat.  What his son Donald Trump Jr. did meeting with Russians who…

Thank You, Bob Anthony

Bob Anthony compiled an outstanding win-and-loss record in his 17 years as the head coach of the East Boston High School ice hockey team, building the Jets into one of top teams in Boston, year in and year out. But…

Obituaries 07-19-2017

Norma Iris Ayala Well known and loved by many people in East Boston and Revere Norma Iris (Torres-Miranda) Ayala of Revere, a long time resident of East Boston, passed away from a brief illness in the early morning hours of…