For the better part of the past year Mayor Martin Walsh has been on the front lines advocating for ending the generations-long under-funding of local public schools. The outdated formula used to fund public schools in Boston and other school…
Author: John Lynds
Zumix Block Party Set for Sept. 7
East Boston’s popular music and performing arts non-profit will host the fourth annual Zumix Radio Block Party on Saturday, Sept. 7. Zumix’s free community block party will kickoff at 1 p.m. on Orleans Street from Sumner to Everett Streets with…
BPS Superintendent Dr. Cassellius Meets With East Boston Community
On a warm summer evening last Monday inside the Bremen Street Park, new Boston Public School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius held a special meet-and-greet with BPS families and the general public. The event was hosted by the Superintendent’s Office, the East…
Student Access : Free MBTA Passes For All 7th – 12th Graders This School Year
Starting this fall, Boston Public Schools (BPS) will provide MBTA passes for all 7th to 12th graders, not just students living a long distance away from school. Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said in a statement that the expanded T pass program…
Community Updated On PLAN : East Boston
Last summer, Mayor Martin Walsh announced Eastie was chosen as one of five neighborhoods that will be part of the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s planning initiative of an Imagine Boston 2030 effort to ‘preserve, enhance and grow’ the neighborhood…
Changes to 120 Bus Route Start Sept. 1
Last year, the MBTA launched a website at www.betterbus.mbta.com as part of the T’s project to improve bus service in neighborhoods like East Boston. Through the Better Bus Project, the MBTA was trying to find new ways to improve the…
Eastie’s Sandra Nijjar Named 2019 Myra Kraft Community MVP Award Winner
It started as an idea as a way to address what Sandra Nijjar saw as a growing problem in East Boston. Nijjar was seeing an ever-increasing number of homeless in and around Maverick and Central squares. Nijjar recruited Pastor Britta…
Eastie Updated on Community Preservation Act Funding
At a recent community meeting the city’s Community Preservation Director Christine Poff updated residents on the Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding that is benefiting East Boston’s new and existing developments with CPA funding. Before getting into specific CPA earmarks, Poff…
Corner of Byron and Bennington Streets Named After Wally Bowe
On Saturday afternoon, a group of friends and family members gathered outside the Salesian Boys & Girls Club in East Boston to officially rename the corner of Byron and Bennington Streets ‘Wally Bowe Corner’. The new street sign is a…
Madaro Honored by Piers Park Sailing Center
State Rep. Adrian Madaro, who as a youth learned how to sail in Boston Harbor through the Piers Park Sailing Center’s (PPSC) summer program, was honored by the PPSC board, staff and youth on Monday afternoon for his support and…