On a warm summer evening last Monday inside the Bremen Street Park, new Boston Public School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius held a special meet-and-greet with BPS families and the general public. The event was hosted by the Superintendent’s Office, the East…
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Student Access : Free MBTA Passes For All 7th – 12th Graders This School Year
Starting this fall, Boston Public Schools (BPS) will provide MBTA passes for all 7th to 12th graders, not just students living a long distance away from school. Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said in a statement that the expanded T pass program…
Community Updated On PLAN : East Boston
Last summer, Mayor Martin Walsh announced Eastie was chosen as one of five neighborhoods that will be part of the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s planning initiative of an Imagine Boston 2030 effort to ‘preserve, enhance and grow’ the neighborhood…
Changes to 120 Bus Route Start Sept. 1
Last year, the MBTA launched a website at www.betterbus.mbta.com as part of the T’s project to improve bus service in neighborhoods like East Boston. Through the Better Bus Project, the MBTA was trying to find new ways to improve the…
Eastie’s Sandra Nijjar Named 2019 Myra Kraft Community MVP Award Winner
It started as an idea as a way to address what Sandra Nijjar saw as a growing problem in East Boston. Nijjar was seeing an ever-increasing number of homeless in and around Maverick and Central squares. Nijjar recruited Pastor Britta…
Community News
HVNA Meeting Notice The Harbor View Neighborhood Association which usually meets on the first Monday of the month will not meet on Monday, Sept. 2, due to the Labor Day Holiday. The Sept. meeting instead will be held on Monday,…
Community Calendar
Harbor View Neighborhood Association First Monday of every month 6:30 p.m. at the Edward Brooke Charter School, 145 Byron St. Kiwanis Club of East Boston First and Third Tuesday of every month 6 p.m. at Spinelli’s Restaurant in Day Square.…
Waterfront History and Development Boat Tour Aug. 28
East Boston’s 19th-century shipbuilding and ship repair, today’s working waterfront, and a little known engagement between the British Navy and Colonials during the Siege of Boston will be featured on a boat tour along East Boston’s waterfront. Sponsored by Friends…
Eastie Updated on Community Preservation Act Funding
At a recent community meeting the city’s Community Preservation Director Christine Poff updated residents on the Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding that is benefiting East Boston’s new and existing developments with CPA funding. Before getting into specific CPA earmarks, Poff…
Pressley Joins With MassCounts to Get Out the Count Campaign for the Census
Alongside community leaders at the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley launched the MassCounts Get Out the Count campaign to increase participation in the 2020 Census in historically undercounted communities. Over 150 community members joined the launch of…