Boston residents and visitors will soon find it even easier to recycle right, thanks to a new public education campaign and efforts to expand recycling in city parks, households and in public spaces. Boston was recently selected as one of…
Month: May 2019
DAs File Case Demanding End to Federal Immigration Enforcement in Courthouses
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), and the Chelsea Collaborative filed a groundbreaking lawsuit April 29 demanding an end to federal immigration enforcement in and around Massachusetts courthouses. For…
Police Briefs 05-01-2019
District Seven Police Report Monday, April 8, 2019 Around 3 p.m. in the area of 277 Paris St., a 40 year old male with an East Boston address was arrested for Assault & Battery Around 6:15 p.m. in the area…
Eastie Man Arraigned on Child Sexual Assault, Child Pornography Charges
The East Boston man indicted by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollin’s for sexually assaulting one child, enticing another to create child pornography for him, and transmitting dozens of graphic sexual images of minors through a smartphone application was held…
Support Sen. Markey’s Effort to Ban Robocalls
Robocalls are the new plague of the digital and cell phone era. According to some estimates, Americans received 48 billion robocalls last year, up from 30 billion in 2017. It used to be that only a person’s land line would…
Will April Showers Bring May Flowers?
As Bob Dylan noted, ‘you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing.’ Similarly, we have not needed a weatherman to tell us that this has been a particularly rainy April. However, we learned this…
Guest Op-ed: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Care and Data
By Alexander Acosta A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to visit Maryhaven treatment facility in Columbus, Ohio, to hear from those recovering from the effects of addiction. The visit was an impactful one. I met…
Obituaries 05-01-2019
Margaret Freda Passed in her 102nd year Margaret (Camerlengo) Freda of Peabody, formerly of East Boston, passed away on April 27. She was in her 102nd year. The beloved wife of the late Pasquale Freda, she was the loving mother…