U.S Rep Joe Kennedy III hosted a Spanish-langauge town hall this Saturday at Veronica Robles Cultural Center in East Boston. Kennedy, who is challenging Sen. Ed Markey in a primary race for U.S Senate, took questions from an audience of…
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Eutaw Street fire leaves 15 homeless
The Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services and the American Red Cross have found temporary housing for the 15 people displaced by a two-alarm fire that broke out on Eutaw Street last week. Just before 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 39,…
Compliant: Lawyers for Civil Rights files complaint against BPDA over Suffolk Downs development
With the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) poised to approve the 161-acre Suffolk Downs mixed-use project later this month the Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed a Civil Rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
Community News
Greenway Council meeting Agenda The next Greenway Council meeting will be on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Anna DeFronzo Center (395 Maverick Street, East Boston, MA). AGENDAIntros Police Report RisingEMOTIONS Art Installation Events Recap +…
City Councilor Michelle Wu stops by JPNA
At-Large City Councilor Michelle Wu stopped by last week’s Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association (JPNA) meeting touting her plan to abolish the Boston Planning and Development Agency. Wu, who chairs the Council’s Development and Transportation Committee, for months has been going…
News in Brief
BLOOD DONATIONS NEEDED The American Red Cross has extended its urgent call for donors of all blood types to give blood or platelets. With influenza escalating across the country and preventing some donors from giving, and winter weather threatening to…
House unanimously passes legislation to help protect persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities from harm
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo along with his colleagues in the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to create a registry of care providers who harmed a person or persons with an intellectual or developmental disability. The bill seeks to…
Sen. Boncore provides residents with legislative updates
At last week’s Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association (JPNA) monthly meeting Sen. Joseph Boncore briefed residents on some of the legislative accomplishments over the past year that directly benefited the neighborhood. “It was a good year fiscally for the state and…
Liberty Mutual Insurance announces 19 East Boston community grants
East Boston APAC’s parent agency, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), has received a grant from Liberty Mutual Insurance to address youth homelessness in Eastie and across Boston ABCD will be part of a $5 million effort by Liberty to…
Semi-trucks still getting stuck in tunnel
Community calls on MassDOT for better tunnel signage Unlike Storrow Drive or other roadways in and around Boston that have a system of signs and other fail safes to keep overheight trucks from getting stuck in tunnels or under bridges…