Calling it a great merger of two historic and value-aligned organizations, Manny Lopes, President and CEO of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), announced the official merger of his organization with the nearby South End Community Health Center (SECHC)…
Month: July 2020
Gov. Baker and DESE Releases School Reopening Guidelines For the Fall
Last week Governor Charles Baker’s office and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released their initial guidance about reopening schools this fall. According to Baker’s office and DESE, current medical research supports a safe in-person return to school…
Edwards Calls for the Council to Have More Budgetary Powers
Historically Boston has followed a ‘Strong-Mayor’ form of government as opposed to a “Weak Mayor” system practiced by small or mid-sized cities and towns across the country. In the Strong Mayor system Mayor Martin Walsh is given almost total administrative…
Community Soup Kitchen Adjusts to Phased Reopening
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the East Boston Community Soup Kitchen (EBCSK) was forced to stop serving hot meals on Tuesdays from the basement of the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Paris Street. Instead, staff handed out grocery…
The Stock Market Does Not Represent the U.S. Economy
We don’t pretend to be experts either in the stock market or the economy in general. However, as Bob Dylan put it, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” and similarly, the average American doesn’t…
Obituaries 07-08-2020
Anita Veldhuizen-Taylor She had an upbeat personality and a beautiful soul Anita Veldhuizen-Taylor who celebrated her 50th birthday on June 10, peacefully passed away after a 17-year battle with cancer. Born in Zwolle, Netherlands, Anita’s adventurous spirit and fierce independence…
EBNHC Farmers Market to kick off this afternoon
As East Boston slowly creeps to our “new normal’’ in the neighborhood some restaurants have been able to reopen with limited capacity or outdoor seating, retail stores that have closed are reopening and residents feel a little safer being out…