No matter where any Boston resident goes, the talk ultimately turns to the health and future of Mayor Thomas Menino, who has been hospitalized for the last five weeks and is now at the Spaulding Rehab Center. This Sunday, parishioners…
Sizing Up EBHS Winter Sports
The East Boston High School hockey team will kick off its season on Sunday at 9 a.m. in a game against O’Bryant at Matthew’s Arena in Boston. The team started practicing the Monday after the Thanksgiving Holiday and coach Bob…
Obituaries 12-05-2012
Lillian Polcari Last Surviving Member of The Founding Family of “Stella’s Restaurant” Lilliam M. Polcari of Point of Pines, Revere died at home on December 1 following a brief illness. She was 96 years old. Born and raised in Boston’s…
Volunteers Help with Thanksgiving at Crossroads
On a cold Sunday morning last week, 13 volunteers worked tirelessly at Crossroads Family Shelter to distribute turkeys to East Boston families in need during the Thanksgiving holiday. While the Havre Street shelter is better known in the community as…
Bypass Road Officially Opens
Nearly four decades after longtime East Boston activist, the late Marty Coughlin came up with the idea for a bypass road to remove Logan Airport related traffic from residential streets, Massport joined federal, state and local officials to officially Monday…
Competition for Casino License and Suffolk Downs?
It takes three strikes before one is out, and so far casino development magnate Steve Wynn has only one strike against him in Massachusetts. Now it appears that – after whiffing in Foxboro with Patriots owner Bob Kraft – Wynn…