Excel Academy Charter School Executive Director Owen Stearns announced that the school has broken ground on its expansion plan that includes adding a middle school to Excel’s high school on Bremen Street. “This is exciting news,” said Stearns in a…
Author: John Lynds
OHNC Members Vote on Whitby Street Project
Orient Heights Neighborhood Council (OHNC) members voted 34 to 6 against the residential development project on Whitby Street at the group’s December meeting Monday night at the Ashley Street YMCA. The project at 16 Whitby St. seeks to erect a…
Group Pens Open Letter Calling For “Clean Energy” Alternative
A local environmental justice organization and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently teamed up to write an open letter to the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board calling for a “clean energy” alternative to the planned Eversource Substation in East…
Zumix’s Corey DePina Launches the Fogo Project
For the past 25 years Zumix’s Corey DePina has not only been been an artist, but also an emcee, teaching artist, and youth worker. DePina has dedicated his life to using hip hop as a tool for positive youth development. …
More to Come: Davis Companies Donates to Zumix and Piers Park Sailing Center
Christmas came early for East Boston’s popular neighborhood music program Zumix, as well as Piers Park Sailing Center through a generous donation to both groups by the Davis Companies. On Monday, Stephen Davis of the Davis Companies stopped by Zumix’s…
Speaker DeLeo Tours New Social Centers Pilot Program
House Speaker Robert DeLeo stopped by the Social Centers to check out a new pilot program that is a collaboration between the Social Centers, Neighborhood Villages, Bunker Hill Community College and Urban College. Speaker DeLeo visited a classroom at the…
RisingEMOTIONS: East Boston Comes to the Greenway
On Saturday, the community came together at the East Boston Branch Library to unveil a new art installation outside the library on the East Boston Greenway that brings attention to sea-level rise and climate change. Science has told us that…
Eastie’s Nantucket Lightship Receives Prestigious Federal Grant
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…
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…
Approved: Massport’s ESPR Receives Go Ahead from Theocharides
Last week State Environmental Secretary Katherine Theocharides approved Massport’s Logan Environmental Status and Planning Report (ESPR) despite elected officials, residents and environmental activists calling on Theocharides not to give Massport the ESPR until they provide the Supplemental ESPR. For the…