The State sales tax has risen to 6.25%. A ballot measure to cut the sales tax to 3% has generated an enormous response from residents across the commonwealth. Democrats and Republicans alike share the belief that the sales tax should…
Foreclosures – Many homeowners are facing a harsh reality
Not even the most liberal among us believe that those who cannot pay their mortgages should have the government make the payments for them or to defer the inevitable by putting off a foreclosure. The real estate bust was caused…
Arrest Report 10-21-2010
Monday, October 11 Jose Lara of 40 Rockway Street, Lynn, was arrested and charged with possession of a dangerous weapon (Brass knuckles). Jose Roberto Santos of 165 Marion Street, East Boston, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure. Tuesday, October…
Obituaries 10-21-2010
Irene Gordon Of Lynn, formerly of East Boston Irene Gordon of Lynn, formerly of East Boston, died on October 18. She was the beloved mother of Michele Gordon and Frankie "Fatty" Casaletto, both of East Boston; cherished grandmother of Cynthia…
Red, White and I Do – 28 take part in naturalization ceremony at Piers Park
On a cool, crisp autumn day, twenty-eight immigrants from countries like China, Haiti, Costa Rica, Colombia raised their right hands in Piers Park in East Boston and recited the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America thus becoming…
Organizers ready to begin preliminary design study for much-anticipated project
With community and political support growing for the plan to connect Bremen Street Park to Constitution Beach thus finally connecting one end of East Boston to the other via a continuous park system, organizers of the plan say they have…