Ever since Cape Air’s CEO Dan Wolf was doing seaplane flight instruction on Cape Cod’s ponds over 35 years ago, launching a scheduled seaplane service has been a dream. “Ongoing collaboration with our communities and officials has been key to…
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Developer Files PNF with BPDA to Build 165 Units on Bremen Street
A local developer, Bremen Acquisitions, LLC, is planning to transform a former auto-repair shop and surrounding parcels into a large mixed-use development. Last week Bremen Acquisitions filed its Project Notification Form with the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) last…
BPDA Approves Geneva Street Residential Project
At its May board meeting last Thursday the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved a 26-unit residential project on Geneva Street. In its ruling the BPDA board wrote that, “28-30 Geneva Street advances consistent with the priorities outlined in…
City Officials Holds Flood Resilient Building Guidelines Open House
East Bostonians can take the snow, wind, frigid cold and space-savers, but a new element has been added into the wintery mix that may be something residents might have to get used to as the sea-level rises. Last year’s ‘Bomb…
East Boston Democrats Elect Delegates to State Convention
Registered Democrats in East Boston held a caucus at the Salesian Boys and Girls Club on May 11, to elect twenty (20) delegates and four (4) alternates to the 2019 Massachusetts Democratic Convention, where Democrats from across Massachusetts will gather…
BSLA Updates Community on East Boston Greenway Design Challenge Progress
Over the winter, the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) kicked off an East Boston Greenway Design Challenge. According to BSLA Executive Director Gretchen Rabinkin, the BLSA asked landscape architects to share some designs plans and ideas with the BLSA…
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Best for Eastie: Councilor Lydia Edwards Gives Legislative Update at JPNA Meeting
City Councilor Lydia Edwards stopped by the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association (JPNA) May meeting on Monday night to give her legislative updates to residents. Edwards started off briefing residents on projects already in the pipeline that should be wrapping up…
Eastie Native Receives Prestigious James Beard Culinary Award
East Boston’s Tony Messina was announced as the 2019 winner of the prestigious James Beard Award. Messina, head chef and partner at UNI in Boston, was presented with the coveted award at the 28th Annual James Beard awards in Chicago.…
Appreciation: Evelyn Morash, Longtime Eastie activist, Died Sunday
Evelyn Morash, the outspoken community activist, wife and mother, died Sunday surrounded by her family. Morash, an outspoken woman on matters of education who formed the group ‘Parents and Teachers who Care’ in the 1970s, raised her five children in…