The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center will be one of 46 primary care medical practices across the Commonwealth that have been selected to participate in a new Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative designed to promote comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered care delivered by…
Author: John Lynds
BPHC receives funds for asthma projects
The environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Boston Public Health Commission a $160,000 grant to demonstrate the effectiveness of a citywide asthma intervention, providing home-based asthma education and environmental services by trained health workers here in East Boston. These…
The giving spirit – EBCC students donate lunch money to Oxfam
Every year since 1980, East Boston Central Catholic School’s junior high students have fasted for the World Harvest Day. On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, fifty-three 7th and 8th graders ate a cup of soup instead of eating their lunches. They…
Small businesses have big hopes for Saturday
Nothing boosts a local economy more that when local residents support their local businesses so instead of wracking your brain at a crowded mall trying to figure out what gift to get that special someone this Christmas East Boston Main…
Nominations for officers, board of directors announced
The East Boston Chamber of Commerce (EBCC) has announced its nominations for the 2011 Board of Officers and Directors. Neffo Cappuccio of Cappuccio Construction has been nominated to continue as the Chamber’s president. Diane Modica of the Law Offices of…
NOAH dedicates garden space at the Umana School
It’s a beautiful addition to what was once an empty eyesore at the Umana Middle School Academy on Border Street. Over the course of several months this summer, the vacant space outside the school was transformed into an exciting outdoor…
Petruccelli cruises to re-election
Both Senator Anthony Petruccelli and Governor Deval Patrick were big winners in East Boston during last week’s final election on November 2. Petruccelli won every local precinct and completely dominated his Republican challenger Frank Addivinola in district’s 60 precincts that…
Teen accused of throwing newborn out of a window says she was a rape victim
The teenager who is accused of tossing her newborn baby out of a second floor window into the alleyway below on Saratoga Street in September was held on $10,000 cash bail this week and ordered to return to court on…
Incident could lead to ammendment to Safe Haven law
On the day the East Boston teenager was arraigned for allegedly throwing her newborn baby boy out a second floor window on Saratoga Street to the alleyway below, Baby Safe Haven New England founders, whose members were in East Boston…
East Boston-based company sets high standards for cargo screening
The recent bomb plot foiled by U.S., British and Saudi authorities that targeted American Cargo planes from Yemen bound for the U.S. has focused attention on the extra security needed for cargo traveling in and out of America. It’s something…