The Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s annual ParkARTS participatory program sponsored by Holly Bruce is pleased to announce the return of its series of arts workshops giving children the opportunity to express their creativity while working on fun projects with…
Month: June 2019
Community Calendar
Community Meetings Harbor View Neighborhood Association First Monday of every month 6:30 p.m. at the Edward Brooke Charter School, 145 Byron St. Kiwanis Club of East Boston First and Third Tuesday of every month 6 p.m. at Spinelli’s Restaurant in…
NOAH Youth Busy with a Host of Summer Activities
The East Boston Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) youth will be busy all summer long with a host of activities as well as introducing new projects focused on creating change and achieving environmental and social justice in the neighborhood. N-Yo…
BPDA Approves the Transit-Oriented Development in Maverick Square Project
A mixed-use development pitched by developer MG2 that hopes to transform an empty corner of Maverick Square received Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board approval at the board’s June meeting. The 7,200 square-foot vacant lot at 2-10 Maverick Square…
JPNA Votes in Favor of Maverick Street Project
Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association (JPNA) members voted 16 to 10 in favor of a project on Maverick Street at the group’s June meeting. The project at 347 Maverick St. plans to demolish the existing three-family home and garages, combine the…
Our National Disgrace at the Border
Hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texas where they had been detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday, — The New…
Guest Op-ed: Celebrate Your Community on Independence Day
By Quint Studer As I go about my work of helping communities revitalize and reinvent themselves, I often get to see the best of America and I’m reminded that the foundations that built this country are still just as important…
Mass Audubon ‘Picture This:’ Annual Statewide Photo Contest Alive and Clicking
Do you appreciate the outdoors and enjoy taking photographs that celebrate your connection with nature? Then you and Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, Mass Audubon’s annual statewide photo contest, are a picture-perfect fit! Picture This: welcomes shutterbugs of all ages,…
Obituaries 06-26-2019
James Robert Goodwin Of Lynn, formerly of East Boston James Robert Goodwin of Lynn, formerly of East Boston, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 15. He was 59 years old. The cherished son of the late John and Yvonne (LeBlanc)…
Edwards Calls on BPDA To Re-envision Suffolk Project
After the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s (BPDA) public comment period for the proposed redevelopment of Suffolk Downs closed at the end of last month, City Councilor Lydia Edwards submitted her comments calling for the BPDA to re-envision the project.…