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…
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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…
Eagle Hill Civic Association Votes on Several Projects
Members of the Eagle Hill Civic Association (EHCA) voted on several projects during its May meeting last week at East Boston High School. First up, the group voted 22 to 12 in favor of the project at 98 Prescott Street. …
Community News
Strawberry Festival at Grace Church Grace Church Federated, 760 Saratoga Street, East Boston, will have a fund-raising Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2019 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the church basement. Tickets are $8 for adults and…
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.…