Vincent Fasano Of East Boston Vincent G. Fasano of East Boston passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Monday, March 21 at 95 years of age. The dear brother of Guido Fasano, Gilda Mullen and Mildred Brigante, he…
Month: March 2022
District 1 City Council Race Heating Up
With the Special Election Preliminary for the District 1 City Council seat less than two months away the two candidates are pounding the pavement, knocking doors, raising money, releasing their plans for the district and squaring off at community forums.…
Women’s History Month: Celebrating With Profiles on Local Women: NSMHA’s Director of Recovery Support Services Katie O’Leary
Growing up in Charlestown Katie O’Leary never thought she’d one day struggle with addiction and later become an influential figure in the world of recovery services. O’Leary graduated Matignon High School and after graduation went off to college at UMass…
Celtics, TD Bank Help Create STEM Room at Salesian Boys & Girls Club
Boston Celtics power forwards Grant Williams and Leon Powe were on hand at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club on Byron Street Monday to help celebrate the completion of a new STEM (Science, Technology. Engineering, Math) preteen room at the…
Sen. Edwards Will Help Lead the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business
Owned by a diverse group, neighborhood small businesses have been the backbone of East Boston’s local economy for decades and it’s Sen. Lydia Edward’s goal to continue to give the small businesses that dot the neighborhood the strength and state…
Madaro, House Passes Offshore Wind Legislation
Two years ago Rep. Adrian Madaro and a group of elected officials toured Blue Atlantic Fabricators’s 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Boston Shipyard and Marina on Marginal Street in East Boston. As more and more waterfront parcels are zoned out…
Positive COVID Tests Slight Increase
Three weeks after the city’s “B Together” policy, which required patrons and staff of certain indoor spaces to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, was canceled and a week after the city’s indoors mask mandate was lifted, the weekly positive…
Contractor Involved in Two Deaths at Boston Worksite Last Year Cited in Eastie
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has once again cited Laurence Moloney, who was involved in the February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite, for failing to provide employees with essential and required…
City of Boston’s COVID-19 State of Emergency Declaration to End April 1
Mayor Michelle Wu and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission, today announced Boston’s COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration will end on April 1, 2022. The announcement follows a vote by…
Coletta Endorsed by AFSCME Council 93
Gabriela Coletta, candidate for Boston City Councilor District One, has received the unanimous endorsement of AFSCME Council 93, representing more than 45,000 state, county and municipal employees in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Election Day is May 3, 2022.…