By John Lynds The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Farmers Market returns for its 10th season today (Wednesday, June 5) at 3 p.m. with fresh, locally-grown produce, and other healthy and locally-sourced products. The booths will be behind the Maverick…
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EBNHC Selected as Narcan Site
By John Lynds The opioid crisis in East Boston and across the U.S. has reached epic proportions. Nearly 2,000 people died of opioid related overdoses in Massachusetts last year with an average of 38 opioid deaths per day in the…
EBSB Merges with Meetinghouse Bank
Meridian Bancorp, Inc, the holding company for East Boston Savings Bank, and Meetinghouse Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Meetinghouse Bank, announce the signing of a definitive merger agreement for Meridian to acquire Meetinghouse and East Boston Savings Bank to…
Coppersmith Village Project Another Step Closer to Reality
By John Lynds East Boston’s Neighborhood of Affordable Housing’s (NOAH) project to transform a former industrial site in the neighborhood into a mixed use development is one step closer to becoming a reality. NOAH’s Executive Director Phil Giffee said that…
John Ligotti, Former East Boston Clerk-Magistrate, Judge, Passes Away
The passing this past week of John C. Ligotti. known to his friends as Jack, who served for five decades as an assistant clerk and clerk-magistrate of the East Boston District Court and then was promoted to the District Court…
Madaro Votes for ELL Programs in Schools
By John Lynds East Boston State Rep. Adrian Madaro joined his colleagues last week to pass a bill that will help hundreds of English learners in East Boston The bill, ‘An Act for Language Opportunity for Our Kids’ will allow…
Clippership Wharf Sells Half of Its Phase One Pre-Construction Units
By John Lynds Lendlease’s Clippership Wharf, that was in the planning stages for nearly two decades, is shaping up to be one of the neighborhood’s most anticipated waterfront developments. Following the success of the Eddy, Clippership’s Phase I building known…
Senator Ed Markey is 100 Percent Correct for His Reproach of Kellyanne Conway
It is fair to say that the world as Americans have known it in the post-World War II era has been turned upside-down — and not in a good way — since the election of Donald Trump as President of…
Obituaries 07-05-2017
Gregory Marciello Retired proprietor of F.B.I. Alarm of Revere; member of VFW Post 6712 and Revere Loyal Order of Moose 1272 Family and friends are invited to attend visiting hours on Sunday, July 9 from 2 to 6 p.m. in…
Home Again:Newly Restored Flying Cloud Painting Recently Unveiled
By John Lynds During a special event last week at the East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library, the neighborhood’s Friends of the Library (FOL) unveiled the newly restored Frederick Leonard King painting ‘The Flying Cloud’ that depicts the…