The King Boston memorial, The Embrace, will be anchored on Boston Common, where, in 1965, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Boston to live by its highest ideals. The new memorial will spark a new public conversation about how…
Author: John Lynds
Special Report: Constitution Beach Flagging System Is Flawed and Needs To Be Fixed Says Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Last week, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released a rare mid-summer special report on beach posting and flagging accuracy at Constitution Beach and other beaches owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The flagging system alerts beachgoers to harmful bacteria that…
Coletta Calls for Better Coordination of Construction, Utility Permits
Anyone who has driven around Jeffries Point lately has noticed the ongoing utility work that has closed streets and reduced parking. This is nothing new in Eastie and residents have long complained that once one utility company comes in and…
Pressley Submits Community Testimony From Eastie Food Insecurity Convening
U.S. Congresswoman Aynna Pressley recently submitted community testimony from the Food Insecurity Convening she held at the Zumix Firehouse in East Boston back in July. The community testimony was transmitted to the White House ahead of the White House’s Upcoming…
Eastie’s Weekly COVID Positive Test-Rate Skyrockets
The latest surge of COVID has hit East Boston particularly hard over the summer with the neighborhood’s weekly COVID positive test rate increasing to over 15 percent last week. Public health officials are blaming the summer surge on the highly…
Happy Valley Launches Spanish Language Website
Happy Valley, East Boston’s second adult use cannabis dispensary that opened last year, has become the first cannabis operator in the state to provide a website in Spanish Happy Valley, Eastie’s vertically-integrated cannabis company on McClellan Highway dedicated to creating…
EBNHC Hosts Health Resources and Services Administration Representatives
Monday kicked off National Health Center Week and to mark the occasion the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) had the privilege of hosting Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Region 1 Intergovernmental and External Affairs Regional Administrator Jeffrey Beard…
EBNHC Pulls Out of Partnership With the Davis Companies To Develop Bremen Street Lots
Last year the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) entered into a somewhat controversial partnership with the Davis Companies to redevelop four parcels along Breman and Orleans Streets used for Health Center employee parking into over 300 units of mixed-use…
NOAH Receives State Grant for Aileron Project
After a delay in construction due to the COVID pandemic, East Boston’s Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) broke ground last year on Phase I of its Condor Street project. The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved development project dubbed…
Boston Children’s Chorus Partners With Zumix for New Program
This month, the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) Executive Director Andrés Holder announced the BCC will be expanding programming and setting up shop right here in East Boston through a partnership with Zumix. The BCC’s new neighborhood choir program will train…