While no one is immune from the devastation of a natural disaster, preparing before a storm hits is key to keeping everyone in your family—including your pets—safe. “What’s good for us is good for our pets,” said Kris Kiser, President…
Month: June 2021
Boston Ballet Announces Start of 2021–2022 season
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the return to live, in-person performances for the 2021–2022 season. Live performances return in November with Nissinen’s “The Nutcracker.” The season includes eight world premieres including five in the female-led ChoreograpHER program…
Bero Launches Exploratory Campaign for Lieutenant Governor
Bret Bero has launched an exploratory campaign for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. Bero is a business leader, educator, husband and father who raised his family in Concord. For 20 years, he owned and operated a small…
Mass. Registry Announces Appointments for In-Person Transactions Are Continuing
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has announced that many of the new initiatives that were put in place to provide additional flexibility for its customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, will continue as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted on Saturday,…
Massachusetts May Revenue Collections Total $4.002 Billion
Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) Commissioner Geoffrey Snyder last week announced that preliminary revenue collections for May totaled $4.002 billion, which is $2.264 billion or 130.3 percent more than the actual collections in May 2020, and $2.109 billion or 111.4 percent more than…
Has America Gone From On the Brink to Over the Edge?
With Americans emerging cicada-like from the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, one would think that this would be a time of joy as we resume participating in all of the things that make life worth living. But rather than embracing in…
Guest Op-Ed: Boston Needs More Affordable, Affordable Housing
By Councilor Annissa Essaibi George Right now, Boston’s residents are struggling to pay rent, our families can’t find or afford stable housing, and too many individuals are experiencing chronic homelessness. The past year has only emphasized these realities and the…
Letter to the Editor
SST Threatens East Boston, Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, et al Again! To the Editor, Many years after the Concorde SST was mothballed due to insurmountable extreme environmental, safety and financial issues it appears that Logan Airport’s densely populated surrounding communities (East…
Obituaries 06-09-2021
Giuseppe Barisano Of Revere, formerly of East Boston Guiseppe Barisano of Revere, formerly of East Boston, passed away surrounded by his loving family on June 2, at the age of 89. Giuseppe was born in Fontanarosa, Avellino Italy, the cherished…
An East Boston Memorial Day Story
Like many of his peers William August rushed down to the local US Army recruiter and signed up to serve his country after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The middle child of Joseph and Albina August of East…