State Senator Lydia Edwards said her former Chief of Staff Gabriela Coletta is the best candidate to take over her District 1 City Council seat when she leaves in April. Edwards, who was sworn in as First Suffolk & Middlesex…
Month: February 2022
Weekly COVID Positive Test Decreases for a Straight Month Citywide Deaths Decline
The group of anti-vaxxers camped outside Mayor Michelle Wu’s home are going to have to admit sooner rather than later that her vaccination mandate for indoor venues is working to combat the latest COVID surge in the city. Less than…
Pressley Introduces Bill to Bolster Mental Health Resources for Children and Families
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), alongside Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06), introduced legislation aimed at boosting and expanding mental health services for low-income children and families. The Early Childhood Mental Health Support Act (H.R. 6509) would require…
No Slowdown on Theft of Prius Catalytic Converters in Eastie Neighborhoods
At Monday night’s Harbor View Neighborhood Association meeting, Boston Police Community Officer Tommy Dominico reported that catalytic converters are still being stolen at a record clip from Toyota Prius owners living in East Boston The issue came to light last…
EBCCS Participating in the National School Lunch Program
Special to the Times East Boston Central Catholic School currently participates in the National School Lunch Program. As part of this program, EBCCS offers healthy meals every school day to our students at NO COST due to the Nationwide Waiver…
Resilient Mystic Collaborative Releases Equity-Based Climate Assessment
Special to the Times The Resilient Mystic Collaborative (RMC) has released the results of a two-year groundbreaking research project involving six cities and 13 infrastructure managers to identify and manage risks to Greater Boston’s critical infrastructure from a potential major…
Harbor House Collective Up and Running in Chelsea: Grand Opening Events Scheduled for Friday Through Sunday
Harbor House Collective, Chelsea’s new adult-use cannabis dispensary and cultivation facility, is up and running and will hold a series of special grand opening events this weekend. Owned by the Londono family, who ran a successful wholesale flower business from…
Lewis Joins Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston as New Nicholas President and CEO
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) has named seasoned non-profit and community leader Robert Lewis Jr. as its new Nicholas President and CEO. Lewis will become the 16th leader of the organization in its 129-year history of youth development…
The 1887 Electoral Count Act Must Be Amended
Americans always have taken for granted the sanctity and integrity of our electoral system. For decades, we routinely have sent observers to countries where democracy is a new thing to ensure that those nations conducted their elections on the up-and-up,…
A Silver Lining To Inflation
We saw a report on the news the other night about the effect that inflation is having on food prices thanks to supply chain issues that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlighted that inflation is taking a…