More than 5,300 Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs while delivering the mail last year. Aggressive dog behavior is a common safety concern USPS employees face. To keep its workers safe, the organization is providing important information on how…
Month: June 2023
Leave Fireworks to the Professionals
After a record-setting number of fireworks-related fires in 2020 and a sharp decline in 2021, fireworks incidents in Massachusetts rebounded last year. Massachusetts State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey and State Police Colonel John E. Mawn, Jr. are reminding residents…
Local Artist Sophia Moon’s Open Reception Set for June 16
On Friday June 16, from 6-8 p.m., local artist Sophia Moon will have an opening reception to showcase her recent collection at Claire Carino Contemporary in SOWA. PRESENCE is a series of large abstract works of watercolor. Each piece is a…
Noise Is Killing Us
For those of us who live in the Greater Boston area, the noise that is all around us — the roar of jets from the flight paths over our heads, the constant thrum of traffic on our bridges and expressways,…
The Miracle in The Amazon Jungle
The news this week of the rescue of the four children, ages 13, 9, 4, and 11 months, who survived in the depths of the Amazon jungle for 40 days after their small airplane crashed (killing the pilot, their mother,…
Letter to the Editor
I Fully Support the Mitigation Program To the Editor, As the former Superintendent of the Sumner/Callahan Tunnels and Boston Transportation Commissioner I fully support the MassDOT mitigation program for the Sumner Tunnel Restoration Project. This extensive infrastructure investment project is…
Obituaries 06-14-2023
John Cotter Retired Suffolk County Deputy Sheriff and Medical Sales Rep. John Cotter of East Boston, formerly of Quincy, died on June 1. The beloved son of the late John J. and Lillian M. (Mendoza) Cotter, John was a very…
The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Let’s Get Movin’ 5K Run
Lou Ricci Celebrates 100th Birthday
Life-long East Boston resident, Lou Ricci, celebrated his 100th birthday party with friends and family on June 4 at the Winthrop Arms Restaurant. He wished for 100 more years when he blew out the candles on his cake. “He’s fun-loving,…
HVNA Votes on Two Projects
By Michael Coughlin Jr. Those in attendance at the Harbor View Neighborhood Association’s (HVNA) monthly meeting on Monday, June 5, listened to the second presentation for two projects in the neighborhood and eventually voted on each, supporting one and opposing…