The Maverick Landing Community Services program has been picked as one of twelve Boston-area organizations to receive funding from The Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation to begin a new phase of Culture for Change. The program, originally piloted in…
Author: John Lynds
Change Order: New Street Realty Seeks Approval to Build Fewer Residential Units
The owners of a parcel of waterfront land on East Boston’s shore have filed a change of proposal with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). Varney Hintlian, a trustee for New Street Reality Trust, plans to convert a former industrial building…
Deveau Family Events Gets Bigger and Better Every Year
It started as a small charitable event that raised a few thousand dollars for the Jimmy Fund but the annual Deveau Family Fundraiser has mushroomed into a summer event a lot of East Boston residents look forward to and mark…
NOAH Marks Milestone
East Boston’s Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) began in the basement of Our Savior’s American Lutheran Church on Paris Street. It started in the basement of this church fighting slumlords in Eastie at a time when there was an influx…
Baseball Royalty: Conigliaro Family at Fraser Field
Baseball is made up of moments and Tony Conigliaro had many. Moments that Conigliaro, who use to shag fly balls at Noyes Park as a player for East Boston Little League, could have only dreamed of. The Boston Red Sox…
A Real Stink Residents of OHHD Upset over Lax Dumpster Emptying
It was typical neighborhood summer scene at Orient Heights Housing Development (OHHD) on Sunday. Residents there took to the courtyards where there was barbecuing, children playing and the smell of home cooked meals simmering as the adults took refuge from…
Otis School Students Win Massport’s Environmental Challenge
An East Boston elementary school won an environmental challenge sponsored by Massport and Radio Disney. Third grade students from the James Otis School collected the most plastic bottle caps and won the grand prize of $2,500 that will be used…
East Boston YMCA Receives $3,500 Summer Beach Grant
East Boston YMCA was awarded a $3,500 grant from the non-profit organization Save the Harbor/Save the Bay to support summer beach activities. The funds have been awarded in support of the YMCA’s “Summer Kick –off Event” that took place on…
Excel Academy Ready to Start New School Year at St. Mary’s Site
With summer in full swing and eight weeks until the 2012-2013 school year begins, construction crews are busy finishing the conversion of the former St. Mary’s Star of the Sea School into the Excel Academy Charter School’s new home. Excel…
Money Coming Our Way: Boston City Budget Earmarks Millions of Dollars for Eastie
Last week the Boston City Council today unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2013 budget submitted by Mayor Thomas Menino that includes millions of dollars of capital spending in East Boston. “I am pleased that the City Council approved a budget…