Additional Package Sorters Are Installed The Postal Service is preparing for the holiday and ready to meet the growing customer demand for package delivery. Two of 118 new package sorters distributed nationwide have been installed in the Woburn and Worcester…
Month: August 2021
Coalition for a Resilient and Inclusive Waterfront Host Mayoral Candidate Forum
Last Thursday afternoon at the New ENgland Aquarium the Coalition for a Resilient and Inclusive Waterfront hosted a Mayoral Candidate Forum. Of the candidates running for Boston Mayor in the upcoming fall election, John Barros, Annissa Essaibi-George, Andrea Campbell and…
Labor and Community Groups Demand Funds Go to Frontline Workers and Impacted Communities
Massachusetts residents, labor and community groups convened on the steps of the State House last week, demanding that billions in federal relief aid allocated to Massachusetts from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) be distributed to help those most impacted by…
Violent Part One Crime Down 35 Percent
Last week the Boston Police released its first half-year crime statistics that compares January 1, 2021 through July 25, 2021 with the same time period last year and found both Violent Part One Crime and Non-violent Part One Crime to…
BPHC Finally Sprays for Mosquitos in Eastie
All through the rainy month of July East Boston residents took to social media to complain about the unbearable number of mosquitos plaguing the neighborhood–especially in the Orient Heights section near Belle Isle Marsh. Residents reported sending messages to the…
Eastie’s Weekly COVID Positive Test Rate Continues to Rise Again
With the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus running rampant across the U.S. and recent infections in Boston traced back to an outbreak in Provincetown over July 4th weekend, East Boston and the rest of the city have seen breakthrough…
Inspect Your Boxwood Shrubs for Tree Moths
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is alerting Massachusetts residents that it has received notification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that a number of nurseries within the Commonwealth received Canadian boxwood…
DPH Releases Updated Face-Covering Advisory
The Department of Public Health (DPH) released updated guidance regarding the use of face coverings and cloth masks by individuals who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19. This week, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidance…
Enjoy the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival
This weekend marks the return of the 16th annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival, featuring master sand sculptors who have come from all over the globe to compete in one of the largest sand sculpting festivals in the world. The festival…
Not All Parents Know What’s Best for Their Kids
The executive order signed last week by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida banning local school boards from requiring students to wear masks in schools in that state rates as one of the most reprehensible actions of any public official since the pandemic…