During the planning phase for several of the neighborhood’s high-profile waterfront development projects like Boston East and Clippership Wharf, residents have always advocated for local art, public art and outdoor art to somehow be incorporated into the design of these…
Author: John Lynds
HVNA Members Come Around to Saratoga Street Project
Over the past two years Saratoga Street resident Mike McCormack emerged as the most vocal critic of plans to develop a large vacant lot on his street. McCormack thought earlier blueprints of the planned development at 656 Saratoga St. were…
East Boston High School is on the Rise
Sitting in his office on a sunny fall morning East Boston High School Headmaster Phil Brangiforte can’t help but gloat about his school, his staff, his students and the entire EBHS community. Over the summer the New England Association of…
EHCA Rejects Four Projects Last Week
Members of the Eagle Hill Civic Association voted down four development projects at the group’s November meeting. Perhaps the most controversial project was at 247 Saratoga St., where the plan was to raze the existing one-family home and erect a…
MS-13 Member Sentenced to Life in Prison for Constitution Beach, Falcon Street Murders
Labor Day weekend in 2015 marked the end of the summer and teens all over East Boston spent their last days of freedom hanging out with friends before school started that Tuesday. Tragically, 15-year-old Wilson Martinez would never make it…
Robert Lewis Jr Stops by His Old Stomping Grounds
Robert Lewis Jr.. Lewis, a former Eastie resident and East Boston High graduate is someone who always talks fondly about the impact growing up in Maverick’s public housing development has had on his life. Growing up in the Maverick Landing…
Traffic Nightmare Continues, Residents Vow Action
One week it was a broken-down bus. Another week it was a stuck semi-truck. Then on Monday it was a car accident in the Sumner Tunnel and MassDOT road crews forgetting to install the cones to form the ‘swing lane’…
New East Boston District Court Chief Probation Officer Sworn In
Matthew McDonough, who had been serving as the Chief Probation Officer at West Roxbury District Court before being tapped to head the probation department at East Boston District Court, was officially sworn in last Wednesday evening. McDonough, a Dorchester native,…
ABCD, East Boston APAC Kicks Off Annual Fuel Assistance Program with Help from Sen. Markey
East Boston experienced its first cold snap of the season last week as temperatures plummeted into the teens. However, there’s relief from paying those high New England heating costs for hundreds of low-income residents in the neighborhood. At the beginning…
ZBA Approves Several Eastie Projects
At a Boston Zoning Board of Appeals hearing earlier this month board members approved several development projects that have gone through the the community process. The ZBA approved projects at 398 Bremen St., 135 Chelsea St., 113-115 Cottage St., as…