East Boston’s business district from Maverick to Central Square was the fifth stop on Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and the Baker-Polito Administration’s statewide small business conversation tour. The purpose of the tour is to highlight the Commonwealth’s…
Month: July 2021
RMV Announces 2021 Low-Plate Lottery
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) is announcing that applications for the 2021 Low Number Plate Lottery are now being accepted online at Mass.Gov/RMV using the Online Service Center. Applicants must apply by Aug. 27, and, if selected for a low number plate,…
State Announces New Funding Opportunity To Support Air-Quality Sensors in Communities
The Baker-Polito Administration last week announced that $200,000 in grants are now available to communities to place 10 air-quality sensors on homes, schools or businesses to measure fine particle pollution (PM2.5) throughout local neighborhoods. These small sensors produce data that…
OCEARCH Launches White Shark Research Expedition
OCEARCH is embarking on its annual ocean research expedition to help solve the life history puzzle of the Northwest Atlantic white shark. Alongside 42 scientists and 28 research institutions the organization will collect data to support 23 science projects that…
Median Housing Prices Continue to Increase
The Massachusetts Association of REALTORS (MAR) reported that this month’s data supports the sustained 2021 trend of increasing sale prices for the few homes available on the market. Closed sales on single-family homes rose a total of 27.1 percent while sales…
Davis Companies, EBNHC Hold First Community Meeting Since Partnering With East Boston CD
At Monday night’s Gove Street Citizens Association (GSCA) meeting the development team trying to construct over 400 units of housing on a series of parking lots owned by the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) held its first meeting since…
News in Brief
Parks Department Hosts Willie O’Ree Street Hockey Clinic Series The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is teaming up with the Boston Bruins Foundation to host the Willie O’Ree Street Hockey Clinic Series for boys and girls ages 12 and under…
Nearly 500,000 Hotel Jobs Won’t Return by Year’s End
Midway through 2021, a new report and state-by-state job loss breakdown released by the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) found that while leisure travel is starting to return, the hotel industry’s road to recovery from the pandemic is long and uneven, with…
Yes, Misinformation on Social Media Is Killing Americans
Let’s suppose that someone walked into our newspaper office and told us that he had a “big story,” the gist of which is that COVID-19 is a hoax. Or that vaccines for the coronavirus are part of a plan by…
Congratulations, Rachael Rollins
The announcement this week that President Joe Biden has nominated Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to be the next United States Attorney for Massachusetts is welcome news for those who believe that our criminal justice system at all levels…