Everyone loves a loophole and many Boston cabbies are no exception to that rule. Hundreds of Boston cabs cruising through East Boston everyday charge their fares the standard rate of $5.25 which is supposed to include the price of a…
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A Healthy Garden
The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s (EBNHC) Let’s Get Movin’ community garden planted back in May has sprung to life in recent weeks. EBNHC leased a small parcel of land at Paul’s Airport Parking on Bremen Street and transformed the…
Head Start Celebrates Its 46th Anniversary
East Boston Head Start program was well represented as Head Start centers from across the city celebrated the program’s 46th anniversary. Children and Staff from Eastie’s Head Start, run by Action for Boston Community Development’s (ABCD) APAC office on Meridian…
Man Charged with Stabbing Inside the Bremen Street Park
An East Boston man has been arrested and charged in connection with last week’s daylight stabbing in the Bremen Street Park. Carlos Velasquez, 18, of East Boston was arrested this week by Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to Troop F. State…
Clamming is All but over on the Wood Island Flats
Clamming is all but dead on the Wood Island flats since a fuel spill of some kind and of undetermined size allegedly wiped out the clam population last October. No one in a position of responsibility aware of the ruined…
Eastie Woman Prepares for the Pan Mass Challenge
Maggie Malsch, an East Boston woman will take part in the annual Pan Mass Challenge (PMC)–a two day bike-a-thon that raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Maggie will ride in the 32nd annual PMC on August 6 and 7…
Letter Winner: Boston Latin Student Honored at the State House
-By John Lynds [email protected] An East Boston student was among the 48 young writers whose achievements were celebrated at_ the State House. Steven Gingras, a resident and 10th grader at Boston Latin School, received an Honors award in this year’s…
Fresh Air: BRA Grant Will Support Sailing Program
-By John Lynds [email protected] East Boston’s Piers Park Sailing Center will take part in a $8,500 grant from the Boston Redevelopment Authority to support various programming events this summer as part of the Waterfront Activation Plan for the Charlestown Navy…
Army Corps of Engineers Will Dredge Chelsea Creek
–By John Lynds [email protected] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel in the vicinity of the Chelsea Street Bridge in East Boston and Chelsea by 2012. The…
Eastie Man Sentenced for Brutal Beating
–By John Lynds [email protected] An East Boston man will serve up to five years in state prison for beating another man unconscious outside a Financial District bar hosting a bikini contest two years ago. A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday…