Twenty children served by East Boston’s Crossroads Family Center started the school year with a new backpack full of school supplies and new clothes provided by Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). This is the 10th year that Massport has partnered with…
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Excel Lays Out Plans for Expansion of High School
By John Lynds At a recent community meeting Excel Academy Charter School Executive Director Owen Stearns laid out the school’s plans to add a small addition onto Excel High School on Bremen Street. The addition, according to Stearns, will not…
Excel Students Detained by Border Patrol
By John Lynds Two Excel Academy Charter School students were among the 14 people detained as part of U.S. Border Patrol operation a week ago in Lincoln, N.H. Border Patrol officers established the checkpoint with the support of the Woodstock…
Reconfiguring:MassDot Officials Listen to Residents’ Frustration Over Toll Plaza Project
By John Lynds MassDOT is once again planning on reconfiguring the Sumner Tunnel Toll plaza after months of daily gridlock and complaints from residents and elected officials. At last Wednesday’s meeting at East Boston High School one thing became abundantly…
Boston Latin School Bus Restored for Eastie Students
By John Lynds Following a summer of complaints from East Boston and Charlestown parents regarding the elimination of the Boston Latin School bus from the two neighborhoods for the upcoming school year, Boston Public School’s Chief of Operations John Hanlon…
Mayor Unveils Paris Street Mural
By John Lynds Last Thursday afternoon Mayor Martin Walsh joined the city’s Office of Immigrant Advancement to unveil the new mural on Paris Street just before Meridian Street. The mural, recently completed by the city’s Mural Crew is on the…
HVNA Hosts District One Candidates Forum
By John Lynds Last Wednesday night at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club, the Harbor View Neighborhood Association (HVNA) hosted a candidates forum featuring the three District 1 City Council Candidates. Candidates Lydia Edwards, of East Boston, Margaret Farmer, also…
Anti-Semitic Graffiti Sickens Eastie Officials
By John Lynds One time may be a fluke, the result of pranksters seeing anti-Semitic images that have recently become national news after the Charlottesville clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-hate groups. However, when anti-Semitic graffiti ends up on the same…
Local Business Helps Comfort Family
By John Lynds Six year old Brayden Kelly of Dorchester loved tow trucks. So when Todisco Towing’s David Duff heard that the family of Brayden, who drowned in a pool on Trenton Street in East Boston this month, requested tow…
MassDot to Brief Residents on Toll Plaza Traffic Tonight at EBHS
By John Lynds Following pressure from East Boston elected officials and the Boston Transportation Department, MassDOT officials are returning to Eastie tonight (Wednesday, August 30) at East Boston High School at 6:30 p.m. to provide information on the design of…