Amber Pelletier had just completed her junior year at St. Leo University in Florida where she majored in psychology and minored in education. Her future dream was to complete graduate school and counsel children in hospital settings. However, those dreams…
Author: John Lynds
New Artist Gets Set for the ICA Watershed’s 2019 Season
After a widely successful inaugural run, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) Watershed at the Boston Shipyard and Marina in East Boston ended its first season on the waterfront last fall. Last week the ICA officially announced this year’s resident…
Excel Academy, Elected Officials Upset over Anti-Arab Video
A Revere woman, who goes by the name of Stiletto Dee, walked into the Excel Academy Charter High School in East Boston on April 24 and allegedly began recording an anti-Arab video that was later posted to her Facebook account.…
Dr. Brenda Cassellius Named New BPS Superintendent
Last Wednesday the Boston School Committee voted 5-2 to offer the position of Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to Dr. Brenda Cassellius, who most recently stepped down as Commissioner of Education for the state of Minnesota. The vote…
Piers Park Sailing Center Officially Opens for the Season
On Saturday, the East Boston community helped Piers Park Sailing Center (PPSC)officially kick off its 2019 spring and summer sailing season. PPSC already has more than 200 Eastie youth enrolled in its summer programs including Science of Sailing and Harbor…
BPDA Hosts Community Meeting on Coleridge Street Project
The developer of a large project on Coleridge Street was back before the community since taking a deferral at the Zoning Board of Appeals back in September of last year. At a meeting last Wednesday at the Edward Brooke Charter…
HVNA Recap of May 6 Meeting
On Monday night, the Harbor View Neighborhood Association held their monthly meeting and voted on one project and heard from the owners of Richdale Food Stores on future plans for the former 7-Eleven. First, HVNA members voted 14 to 7…
Local Officials Upset Over Massport’s Ruling on TNC at Logan
Leading up to the Massport Board’s vote on whether or not to force Transportation Network Companies (TNC) like Uber and Lyft to pick up and drop off at a central location inside Logan International Airport, the TNC lobby launched a…
Mumps Outbreak at Otis School
Since vaccination for mumps began in the late 1960s there are fewer than 20,000 annual cases in the U.S. every year. However, that did not stop a third grader from the Otis Elementary School from becoming infected with the disease…
Massport, PierPAC Host Piers Park Phase II Design Meeting
For the past two years, Massport has been working closely with the East Boston Project Advisory Committee (PierPAC) to come up with preliminary designs for the new Piers Park Phase II, a 4.5-acre waterfront park adjacent to the 11-acre Piers…