City Councilor Lydia Edwards stopped by the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association (JPNA) May meeting on Monday night to give her legislative updates to residents. Edwards started off briefing residents on projects already in the pipeline that should be wrapping up…
Author: John Lynds
Eastie Native Receives Prestigious James Beard Culinary Award
East Boston’s Tony Messina was announced as the 2019 winner of the prestigious James Beard Award. Messina, head chef and partner at UNI in Boston, was presented with the coveted award at the 28th Annual James Beard awards in Chicago.…
Appreciation: Evelyn Morash, Longtime Eastie activist, Died Sunday
Evelyn Morash, the outspoken community activist, wife and mother, died Sunday surrounded by her family. Morash, an outspoken woman on matters of education who formed the group ‘Parents and Teachers who Care’ in the 1970s, raised her five children in…
Victim’s Family Takes Issue With Defendant’s Attorney’s Remarks
When Attorney Peter Marano faced the media after his client Dylan Etheridge’s arraignment last Monday, he began a narrative outside East Boston District Court that the victim’s family has taken issue with. Ethridge, 22, of East Boston was arraigned on…
Talk at Library on Historic Painting and Cunard Line
The ‘Queen Mary’ was the second of several historic painting titled “A History of Shipping” by Frederick Leonard King to be restored. The painting by King depicting the Queen Mary was overhauled at Oliver Brothers Restoration with a grant by…
Massport, Martin Richard Foundation Donate to PPSC
Both Massport and the Martin Richard Foundation have made donations to the Piers Park Sailing Center (PPSC) last week. Massport made gave a $25,000 grant to PPSC, which allows the community sailing center to continue educational programs, such as “Science…
Robert Santiago Named Commissioner of Veterans’ Services
Earlier this month Mayor Martin Walsh announced the appointment of Robert Santiago as the new Commissioner of the Office of Veterans’ Services (OVS) for the City of Boston. Santiago, who lives in Jamaica Plain with his husband, becomes the first…
One Killed in Eastie Car Crash
Amber Pelletier had just completed her junior year at St. Leo University in Florida where she majored in psychology and minored in education. Her future dream was to complete graduate school and counsel children in hospital settings. However, those dreams…
New Artist Gets Set for the ICA Watershed’s 2019 Season
After a widely successful inaugural run, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) Watershed at the Boston Shipyard and Marina in East Boston ended its first season on the waterfront last fall. Last week the ICA officially announced this year’s resident…
Excel Academy, Elected Officials Upset over Anti-Arab Video
A Revere woman, who goes by the name of Stiletto Dee, walked into the Excel Academy Charter High School in East Boston on April 24 and allegedly began recording an anti-Arab video that was later posted to her Facebook account.…