[email protected] In East Boston the name John White is synonymous with everything that is good in decent in an otherwise crazy world. As East Boston APAC Director for 30 years White has helped scores of people through tough times but…
Author: Times Staff
At Grace Church, increased efforts amid diminishing funds
[email protected] Grace Federated Church on the corner of Saratoga and Byron Streets is like the Little Engine that Could. With limited funding to rely on the church has been able to move mountains and climb steep hills. For the past…
Project Bread report highlights problems and offers solutions
By John Lynds [email protected] East Boston based Project Bread, the state’s leading antihunger organization, released numbers from its upcoming annual Status Report on Hunger in Massachusetts 2010. Project Bread reports that in the latest numbers nearly 660,000 people in the…
Residents rush to the aid of family that was displaced by a fire on Bennington Street
By John Lynds [email protected] The neighborhood is rallying around the victims of a fire that broke out in a one-family home on Bennington Street Saturday morning. The Herrera Family and their four small children were displaced by the one alarm…
CLOSING SCHOOLS
Superintendent Johnson is making a tough — but inevitable — decision Superintendent of Schools Dr. Carol Johnson is doing the right thing by suggesting to close or to combine at least 18 public schools in the Boston Public School system.…
Police Blotter 12-16-2010
December 6 Samantha Chaletsky of 720 Bennington Street, East Boston, was arrested and charged with shoplifting. December 7 Peter Vitello of 45 Hancock Street, Salem, was arrested and charged with a parole violation. Remi Soto of 428 Hyde Park Avenue,…
Obituaries 12-16-2010
Marta Klimkiewicz Retired Kitchen Worker Marta (Piechota) Klimkiewicz, a retired kitchen worker for many years at Kayem, passed away on December 9 at the Kindred Hospital in Peabody. She was 83 years old. Born in Kalisz, Poland, she was the…