On Monday night, the Harbor View Neighborhood Association held their monthly meeting and voted on one project and heard from the owners of Richdale Food Stores on future plans for the former 7-Eleven. First, HVNA members voted 14 to 7…
Month: May 2019
Police Briefs 05-08-2019
District Seven Police Report Monday, April 22, 2019 Around 10:45 p.m. in the area of Ashley and Boardman Streets, a 45 year old male with a Boston, MA address was arrested for Assault and Battery. Tuesday, April 23, 2019 No…
Big Tobacco: The Empire Strikes Back Or: Is Your Child a Nicotine Addict?
In the mid-1990s, our newspaper group was honored in consecutive years by the Massachusetts branch of the American Cancer Society for our reporting and editorials regarding the regulation of tobacco products in our local communities. We wrote about every aspect…
Guest Op-ed Our May Day Message: We Will Not Be Divided
By Antonio Amaya, Gladys Vega and Milagros Barreto Just a few days ago, we saw the power of workers standing together. Stop & Shop employees represented by UFCW Local 1445 went on strike to protect their income and push back…
Letters to the Editor
Liberal Hypocrisy To the Editor, You had a very good article on the current Opiod Crisis in New England. However in flagrant display of Liberal Hypocrisy – three of our leading law enforcement officers – Healy, Rollins and Ryan, two…
Obituaries 05-08-2019
Scott Poirier Family Man A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, May 7 in Sacred Heart Church in East Boston for Scott E. Poirier who passed following a long illness on Wednesday, May 1, at Tuft’s Medical Center, Boston. Born…
Family Prom
Local Officials Upset Over Massport’s Ruling on TNC at Logan
Leading up to the Massport Board’s vote on whether or not to force Transportation Network Companies (TNC) like Uber and Lyft to pick up and drop off at a central location inside Logan International Airport, the TNC lobby launched a…
Mumps Outbreak at Otis School
Since vaccination for mumps began in the late 1960s there are fewer than 20,000 annual cases in the U.S. every year. However, that did not stop a third grader from the Otis Elementary School from becoming infected with the disease…
Massport, PierPAC Host Piers Park Phase II Design Meeting
For the past two years, Massport has been working closely with the East Boston Project Advisory Committee (PierPAC) to come up with preliminary designs for the new Piers Park Phase II, a 4.5-acre waterfront park adjacent to the 11-acre Piers…