It’s that time of year to break out your blue and gold attire and head down to Piers Park for the 26th Annual Eastie Pride Day. This year’s Eastie Pride Day will kickoff on Saturday, August 16 at 3 p.m.…
Author: John Lynds
MGC Says Boston No Longer Considered Surrounding Community for Wynn Casino
While Boston inked a mitigation deal with Mohegan Sun Revere last month it seems the negotiations in Everett have broken down. After months of failed negotiations between the City of Boston and Wynn Everett to nail down a ‘surrounding community’…
Walsh Makes Changes to ZBA
The biggest complaint among developers of residential and small business development in East Boston has been the red tape one has to navigate in order to get a project off the ground. After fulfilling the community process through neighborhood or…
Eastie Mourns Passing of Activist, Joanne Cardinale
Joanne Cardinale, a longtime community activists and a fixture at East Boston community meetings, neighborhood events and political times, has died. Mrs. Cardinale, a lifelong East Boston resident who, along with her longtime husband, Peter, died late Monday night after…
Debate Is on for State Representative Primary Contest
Representative Carlo Basile has responded to his opponent’s request to schedule a debate before the upcoming election. Last week, Celeste Myers invited Basile to participate in three public debates or forums leading up to the Tuesday, November 4 election. In…
Drive thru Gets Nod from ZBA Not OHNC
Despite Orient Heights Neighborhood Council (OHNC) members voting 18-6-1 against placing a drive thru at the Dunkin Donuts on Bennington Street in Orient Heights the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) approved the project anyway. The members who voted against…
Greenway Connector Now Open for Public
After years of planning and development the first section of the East Boston Greenway Connector is open to the public. This section of the Greenway Connector, built by Massport, opened for public use last week and the new path connects…
CSA Going Strong in Neighborhood
Recently the newly formed Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program in East Boston is going strong at the neighborhood’s WIC office on Liverpool Street. The CSA program is a collaboration between East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s (EBNHC) Let’s Get Movin’ program and…
Maverick Marketplace:the Tylers Dream Comes True
It was a building that remained idle for decades until an East Boston husband and wife team had a vision of transforming the former Welfare building on Maverick Street into small business incubator. The Tylers worked for years permitting, constructing…
EBSB Completes Plan to Go Fully Public
After East Boston Savings Bank’s (EBSB) parent company Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc. has formed a new corporation to go fully public, the newly formed corporation and announced it has completed the “second step” conversion of Meridian Financial Services, Incorporated (MFS).…