Since 2009, Eastie has played host to a national treasure. The giant red lightship docked on Marginal Street was declared a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1989. Since then there has been a push locally to restore the historic Lightship…
Month: December 2019
Gunshots Fired Outside Troubled Eastie Bar
It was the site of a murder in February, and now gunshots were reported outside Medallo Bar over the weekend morning. At around 2 a.m. last Friday morning police responded to shots fired on Chelsea Street outside of the Medallo…
Sounds of Christmas Concert Returns Sunday
The music of the holiday season will fill the air Sunday when the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Revere for the annual Robert A. Marra Memorial “Sounds of Christmas” Concert at St. Anthony’s Church beginning at 4 p.m. Admission…
Community News
OHNC Meeting Agenda The next meeting of the Orient Heights Neighborhood Council (OHNC) will be Monday, Dec 16, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the YMCA gym at 58 Ashley St. Agenda is subject to change. Introductions – Welcome and report…
Community Calendar
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 Day Square.…
Knitting for Love
By Amy Goldberg, RN, Neighborhood PACE Five years ago, my friend Gayle Gordon, the family liaison volunteer on the Mass General Hospital Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, asked me if I knew of anyone who knitted blankets. At that time, the intensive care…
Remember Those Who Are Less Fortunate This Holiday Season
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. With Christmas just two weeks away, most of us will be rushing about — either to the stores and malls…
Guest Op-Ed: A Just Society Doesn’t Criminalize Girls
By Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Dr. Monique W. Morris, Ed.D. Too frequently, educational justice is denied for girls – especially for girls of color. Schools should be the safest place for our children and yet, for many girls of color, the…
Letter to the Editor
An Amazing Guy To the Editor, Pat Capogreco and I have been friends for some 16 years now. We met during the vigil that parishioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel began following the closing of the church back in…
A Giant Among the Jets: All-Scholastic Tyrone Figueroa Is New Boys Basketball Head Coach
Tyrone Figueroa excelled as an athlete, so much so that his accomplishments would cover an entire page in the East Boston High School record books. An All-Scholastic running back who starred for two Super Bowl teams, a standout for two…