Belle Isle Seafood If you missed it, East Boston’s Belle Isle Seafood was featured on Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel show ‘No Reservations’ last week. Bourdain and company stopped by the Eastie seafood restaurant on the Eastie side of the Winthrop…
Category: News
Major Player: Suffolk Enters into a Strategic Alliance with Caesar’s Entertainment Corp.
-By John Lynds [email protected] In a move to show that they are serious about being one of possibly three resort-style casinos in the Commonwealth, owners of Suffolk Downs, Sterling Suffolk Racecourse, LLC have entered a strategic alliance with Caesar’s Entertainment…
FinalExitNetwork Billboard Stirs Emotions
By John Lynds [email protected] There is a relatively new billboard that has stirred a certain level of controversy in the predominately Roman Catholic neighborhood of East Boston–a place where many believe assisted suicide goes against church doctrine. The billboard is…
Alleged ‘Pipe Bomb’ Bank Robber Indicted in Federal Court
-By John Lynds [email protected] An East Boston man was charged last week in federal court with two counts of armed bank robbery and two counts of attempted armed bank robbery after he allegedly used fake pipe bombs to stick up…
Three Students Earn the Chance to Study Marine Science in the Bahamas
-By John Lynds [email protected] Three East Boston students have joined eight other local area high school students on a trip to the Bahamas to study marine science. Dina Bahloul, 18, Jessica Andrade, 18, and Lee Huang, 18 will be in…
Best Buddy – Mangini Named Kiwanian of the Year
By John Lynds [email protected] It was an outpouring of support for the one man that has defined what it means to ‘give back’ to the community of East Boston. Last Friday at Spinelli’s in Day Square, the East Boston Kiwanis…
This Year’s Event Tops the $90,000 Plateau
-By John Lynds [email protected] The East Boston YMCA raised well above their goal of $90,000 at another successful annual breakfast last week. The breakfast, held last Thursday morning at the Logan Hilton, drew over 500 ‘Y’ supporters to the event…
A Government Shutdown wasn’t Going to Shutter APAC
By John Lynds [email protected] We’ve heard a lot of rhetoric about ‘change’ in American politics from all political parties. But real change comes when people go against the trend and focus their efforts on helping people. That is exactly what…
Renovation of Welfare Building set to begin
By John Lynds [email protected] It’s a unique development that will transform the decaying Welfare Building on Maverick Street into a vibrant commercial development. John and Melissa Tyler got approval in May 2009 from the Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) to…
Obituaries 04-13-2011
Harold German Operated Pharmacy in East Boston for many years Harold “Harry” German, a life long resident of Chelsea, died on Wednesday, April 6. He attended Chelsea Schools, graduated from Mass. College of Pharmacy in 1944 and operated a pharmacy…