The long and complicated saga surrounding Maverick Marketplace Cafe’s seating capacity has finally been solved. Last week the City of Boston approved the Cafe’s request to increase the restaurant’s seating capacity from 24 inside to 60 and from 28 outside…
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ZUMIX Honored with Creative Economy Award
ZUMIX was honored at The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) Creative Economy Awards on June 7 as part of the New England-wide Creative Communities Exchange held in Montpelier, VT. Three awards were presented along with a $2,500 unrestricted prize to…
Walk for Victory
Dream Come True Eastie’s Angelina Botticelli Heading to Berklee College of Music on Full Scholarship
Since joining Zumix as a young girl, Angelina Botticelli has grown to become an accomplished musician. The lifelong Eastie resident and Boston Arts Academy (BAA) High School senior has written original music, started a band, released an album, helped co-write…
Excel Lays out Plans for Expansion of High School to Include Middle School
At a recent community meeting, Excel Academy Charter School Executive Director Owen Stearns and Excel’s Pat Forbest and Dan Mills laid out the plans to expand the High School on Bremen Street to include a middle school. The plan includes…
New Gas Station Opens at Logan; Will Soon House Meridian Market, Starbucks
Soon Jeffries Point residents will no longer have to walk or drive to Central Square or McClellan Highway to get their Meridian Market or Starbucks fixes. Massport announced that a new convenience and filling station opened on the Logan Airport…
EBNHC Honors Two at Monday’s Art of Health Care Event
On Monday the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center held its seventh annual Art of Health Care event at the ICA’s Watershed at the Boston Shipyard and Marina. This year the annual innovative fundraiser to celebrate EBNHC’s mission in the community…
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and South End Community Health Center Announce Intent to Merge
This week, in one of the first mergers of its kind in Massachusetts, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) and South End Community Health Center (SECHC) announced their intent to merge after signing a definitive merger agreement. Pending federal and…
Remembering a Friend to All, Sam “Sammy” Tassone
Recently family and friends gathered at Suffolk Downs Race Track in East Boston to remember and honor a friend to all, Sam Tassone, who passed away in March of 2019. Tassone worked at Boston City Hall for many years and…
The Winthrop Marketplace Turns 20
By Domenic DeMasi “In all aisles of the Marketplace you could hear how happy the patrons are to finally have a market open in town”, begins Catherine Elcik’s article in the June 10th, 1999 issue of the Winthrop Sun-Transcript about…