Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards, representing East Boston, Charlestown and the North End, was sworn in by city clerk Maureen Feeney on Wednesday to serve on the Boston’s Neighborhood Housing Trust (NHT). The trust, established in 1983 and revamped to…
Madaro to File Legislation Requiring Massport to House its Own Ambulance at Logan Airport
Residents who live in East Boston are well aware of the need for additional EMS services for the neighborhood. A recent Boston Globe article noted that while the average wait time for an ambulance in the City of Boston is…
OHNC Votes Down Saratoga Street Project
By John Lynds The long saga of trying to redevelop a former auto mechanic shop into a market rate residential development hit a roadblock at Monday night’s Orient Heights Neighborhood Association meeting. OHNC Members voted 23 to 6 against the…
Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library kicks off 2018 with its 2018 Lowell Lecture Series – Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Voices of Social Justice, exploring social justice issues relevant to today’s world with activists including internationally known transgender speaker Ryan Sallans and Bernice…
Help Sought to Find Missing Person
By John Lynds Joey Brancato is a 21-year-old Winthrop native who has seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth a week before Thanksgiving. On November 18 Joey was last seen in Roslindale at 10 Mendelsohn St. in…
‘Timeout’ for Reading:NBA Referees Stop by Donald McKay School to Show Importance of Literacy
By John Lynds NBA referees Bill Spooner and Aaron Smith stopped by the Donald McKay School last Thursday to take part in the TIMEOUT for Reading program, a collaboration between Scholastic and the National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA). Through this…