At several East Boston virtual community group meetings, residents and community leaders have expressed their opposition to the Davis Companies first architectural drawings and proposal for a large scale development along the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway. The Davis Company and…
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Project Bread Is a Recepient of Boston Resiliency Fund Grant
East Boston-based Project Bread was recently awarded a grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund that will focus on enrolling more food insecure families into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Project Bread will develop and implement a public awareness campaign…
EBNHC Let’s Get Movin Farmers Market Officially Open
After thunderstorms cancelled the original kick off date of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) Let’s Get Movin Farmers Market in Central Square, the market finally opened last Wednesday. The Farmers Market kicked off Wednesday June 7 and will…
Planet Fitness Reopens in Boston under Phase Iii This Week
Boston was a week behind the rest of the state when it came to Governor Charlie Baker’s Phase III of Massachusetts’s phased COVID-19 reopening strategy. In Boston, businesses that were eligible to reopen in Step One of Phase III but…
Raise Up Massachusetts to Launch ‘Invest in Our Recovery’ Campaign
Warning that severe state budget cuts would only worsen the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and impair our economy’s recovery, the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition of community groups, faith-based organizations, and labor unions is launching the ‘Invest in Our Recovery’…
Markey and Kennedy Answer Questions Posed by Inmates in Socially Distanced Forum
On July 7, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department held a Senate Forum with Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Joe Kennedy III, candidates for the US Senate in this year’s election. The forum, which was moderated by Suffolk County Sheriff Steven…
New Study Examines Diversity of Civic Workforce in Massachusetts
The people who work for Massachusetts cities and towns are overwhelmingly whiter and older than the communities or region that they serve, creating a looming diversity challenge as public employees retire, according to a study released this week by the…
Angela Atenco Lopez, Longtime Restaurateur, Passes Away at 76
Angela Atenco Lopez, whose recipes from her native Puebla, Mexico wowed residents, food critics and celebrity chefs far and wide, has died. Mrs. Lopez, the namesake of Angela’s Cafe’s two locations in East Boston, had been bravely battling cancer for…
Making it Official: SECHC Officially Becomes Part of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
Calling it a great merger of two historic and value-aligned organizations, Manny Lopes, President and CEO of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), announced the official merger of his organization with the nearby South End Community Health Center (SECHC)…
Gov. Baker and DESE Releases School Reopening Guidelines For the Fall
Last week Governor Charles Baker’s office and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released their initial guidance about reopening schools this fall. According to Baker’s office and DESE, current medical research supports a safe in-person return to school…