Last Friday afternoon Rep. Adrian Madaro along with East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s CEO Manny Lopes and CMO Dr. Jackie Fantes held a virtual town hall to discuss the clinical context of the COVID-19 outbreak, its impacts on the local…
Author: John Lynds
Eastie COVID-19 Updates
As the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline, East Boston still remains a virus hotspot within the city limits and cases of the virus rose nearly 10 percent in one week. On Friday the Boston Public…
Mayor, BPS Announce Virtual Graduation for Seniors
For hundreds of high school seniors living in East Boston, the last year of high school is a right of passage, and one that is remembered for a lifetime. Whether these seniors are at East Boston High School or attending…
Local Musician Gives Back to Zumix
Local musician Ali McGuirk and multimedia artist Pamela Maguire teamed up earlier this month to use art and music to support the Massachusetts families hardest hit by the COVID pandemic. On May 8 the pair released, via Bandcamp, a set…
City Realty Donates Chromebooks to Salesian Boys & Girls Club
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic the Salesian Boys & Girls Club on Byron Street has had a close working partnership with local developer, the City Realty Group. City Realty, known for several development projects in Eastie, has a nonprofit offshoot…
Walsh Reacts to State Reopening
On Monday, May 18, Governor Charlie Baker launched Phase 1 of a statewide reopening plan. However, Mayor Martin Walsh stressed that reopening does not mean “back to normal”—it means bringing caution and a commitment to stopping the spread of COVID-19…
Hilton Boston Logan Airport Hotel Lends a Helping Hand to the Y
Usually the Hilton Boston Logan Airport Hotel lends its services to the East Boston YMCA each year, playing host to the Y’s annual Reach Out capital campaign breakfast fundraiser that draws more than 500 attendees and supporters. However, the annual…
Churches Reopen in Eastie with Restrictions Archdiocese of Boston Produces Social Distancing Guidelines
As part of the Governor’s Phase I reopening of the state, East Boston’s houses of worship were allowed to resume Mass with some strict restrictions on May 24. Because many large congregations in other parts of the country disobeyed social…
Eastie Farms Has Been Doing Its Part Battling Eastie Inequities
Eastie Farm’s Kannan Thiruvengadam states that the East Boston community, made vulnerable by inequities of many kinds, has been hit hard both by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallouts. “We at Eastie Farm are doing whatever we can to…
Salesian Boys & Girls Club Holds Parade from ‘Club Kids’
The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on all of us, but particularly tough on Eastie’s youth. For Eastie children kept indoors or around immediate family with little or no contact with their close friends or social activities days have turned…