On Saturday scores of community members took part in the family-friendly event, which included free yoga and family fitness from Trillfit, a free Soca and Bachata dance class from Aashka Dance Company, music by DJ Cakewalk, kayaking with Piers Park…
Author: Times Staff
New Grant Program to Help Historic Places Challenged by Pandemic
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces a new $3.5 million program designed to help preserve and interpret historic places that reflect the inclusive narrative of American cultural history, made possible through a generous grant from the National Endowment for…
News Briefs
Boston Youth Poet Laureate Search The City of Boston is looking for youth interested in civic challenge to Boston’s next Youth Poet Laureate! Participants must be: • 13-18 years old • Residents of the city of Boston for at least…
Progressives Are Trump’s New Best Friends
As our regular readers know, we have been fully supportive of everything that entails the Progressive agenda in Washington, from the Green New Deal to tax increases on the wealthy and everything in between. If anything, we’d like to see…
School Masking Is Not a Parental Matter
According to an interview in the Boston Globe, a member (who is a medical doctor) of the unpaid COVID-19 advisory panel to Gov. Charlie Baker made this statement regarding masking by children in public schools: “Regardless of science, and there…
Sober October: Now More Than Ever
We all know that the pandemic has not been great for either our physical or mental health. One of the strongest indicators of this is that overall alcohol consumption increased by 14 percent among Americans in 2020 and 23 percent…
Guest Op-Ed: Preparing Our Children for the 21st Century Economy
By Anthony D’Ambrosio The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on our state’s students. Mental health issues have spiked, reaching crisis levels in many school districts. Nearly 300 schools in Massachusetts had chronic absenteeism rates of 30% or higher…
Guest Op-Ed: Looking at the Death of Menhaden “Pogies” in the Mystic River
By Dr. Rob Moir Last Saturday, September 24, 2021, thousands of menhaden fish, locally known as pogie, were found dead in the Mystic River, resting up against the Amelia Earhart Dam between Somerville’s Draw Seven State Park next to Assembly…
Obituaries 10-06-2021
Anthony Penzabene Retired Machinist A private Graveside Service was held in Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett for Anthony R. Penzabene, who died on Friday, October 1 at the Lighthouse Nursing Care Center in Revere following a long illness. He was 81…