Last Tuesday afternoon At-Large City Councilor Michael Flaherty hosted a community cookout with help from the East Boston Community Soup Kitchen (EBCSK) that operates out of the Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in East Boston. For several years, the EBCSK has…
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Gov. Baker Signs Fiscal Year 2022 State Budget Into Law
Gov. Charlie Baker has signed the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget into law, a $47.6 billion plan designed to support the Commonwealth’s communities, schools, families, small businesses, and workers as Massachusetts emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. The budget fully funds…
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Mayor Janey Announces Neighborhood Coffee Hour Series Mayor Kim Janey and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will host the 2021 Neighborhood Coffee Hour Series, in collaboration with Dunkin’, in local parks citywide from July 30 to August 27. “I…
Zumix Walk for Music
East Boston Nieghborhood Health Center’s Farmers Market
Eastie’s Constitution Beach Scores High Marks on Water Quality Report Card
With summer in full swing and beach goers enjoying sun, surf and sand Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released its annual report on the water quality at Constitution Beach in East Boston. According to Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s Annual…
Nine East Boston Residents to Participate in Pan-Mass Challenge
East Boston resident Nicole Azero said she signs up each year for the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) bike-a-thon because she knows she’s part of an event that has one of the largest impacts on the cancer research community in the world…
South End State Rep. Jon Santiago Ends Mayoral Campaign
Though he has a gleaming resume for the job of mayor, South End State Rep. Jon Santiago’s campaign never took a strong foothold citywide and never caught the momentum needed to show strong in September, and as a result he…
Update on the Ohabei Shalom Cemetery Restoration
At a community meeting last month Lisa Berenson, Director of Development for Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts (JCAM) Charitable Foundation said the foundation is continuing to restore the historic Ohabei Shalom Chapel on Wordsworth Street with several projects in the…
Boncore may Leave State Senate for Position at Biotech Council
Special to the Times-Free Press When Lisa Kashinsky of Politico Massachusetts Playbook first reported last week that State Sen. Joe Boncore was letting his colleagues know that he “plans to leave for a job at MassBio [Massachusetts Biotechnology Council],” it…