By Lydia Edwards Over the years, I’ve been a Boston City Councilor, a legal services attorney, and a workers’ rights advocate. When you peel back the career and accomplishments, there is more to me than work. I am an Air…
Author: Times Staff
East Boston Youth Basketball is Back
EBYBL in conjunction with Boston Centers for Youth and Families at the Martin Pino Center and Paris St. Gym will have a 2022 season. Children 7 years old to 16 (can’t turn 17 before March 1) are eligible. Due to…
Jets and the Knights Will Clash at Fenway Park
The 102nd game in the East Boston High School-South Boston High School football rivalry, originally planned for White Stadium on Thanksgiving morning at 9:30 a.m. will take place at Fenway Park on Tuesday evening, November 23 at 5 p.m. Tickets…
Obituaries 11-17-2021
John Cheffro, Sr. Lifelong East Boston Resident John W. Cheffro Sr., a life-long resident of East Boston, passed away unexpectedly on November 14 surrounded by his loving family. The beloved husband of Dorothy (DeVico) Cheffro, he was the devoted father…
Research Station Dedicated to Kermit Norris
Boston’s Official Tree Will Arrive November 17
The annual gift of an evergreen Christmas tree from Nova Scotia is scheduled to arrive by police escort at Boston Common at approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 17. This is the 50th year that a tree has been donated…
Edwards Receives More Endorsements
Healey and Unite Local 26 Endorse Edwards Attorney General Maura Healey endorsed Lydia Edwards for Senate with a canvass kick-off at Lopresti Park in East Boston. The campaign was joined by Unite Local 26, which also formally endorsed Edwards today.…
Free Public Talk on Eastie’s “Bathtub Madonnas”
If you’ve walked around East Boston, you’ve noticed that the community has many front yard saint shrines, often housed inside of grotto-like protectors that look like bathtubs. That’s because many of them are bathtubs! Most were erected by Italian immigrants…
News In Brief
No Mail on Thursday There will be no regular mail delivery or retail services available on Thursday, November 11, as postal employees across the commonwealth celebrate Veterans Day, but our carriers will be delivering Priority Express and other guaranteed next…
Baker Nominates McClenon as Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court
Governor Charlie Baker nominated Stephen W. McClenon as Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court. Attorney McClenon has over 25 years of legal experience. “Attorney McClenon possesses decades of experience at trial both as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor, “ said Governor…