Joey Cuzzi It’s hard enough keeping a non-profit afloat in these tough fiscal times but its unheard of to raise enough money to expand. Try telling that to East Boston YMCA Executive Director Joey Cuzzi and she’ll say there is…
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An Open Book
Details Unveiled During Meeting; New Facility Will Be Built Near the Bremen Street Park; Cost Estimated at $11.3m By John Lynds [email protected] Planners of East Boston new state-of-the-art library unveiled their plans to the community at a special meeting held…
La Vigilia; Christmas Eve Means Fish for Italian Families
For the Free Press On Christmas Eve in Boston, while little tykes will lay nestled in their beds dreaming of sugar plum fairies and such, many Italian American families will be feasting on fishes. For generations of Italians, Christmas Eve…
Developer Plans to Turn Savio High School into Condos
By John Lynds [email protected] There’s a plan in the works to turn the former Savio High School into 24 market-rate condominiums, a development that could be another positive impact for East Boston’s Star of the Sea neighborhood. The Coliseum Investment…
Excel Academy In Talks to Buy Star of the Sea Building
By John Lynds [email protected] Excel Academy is closer to finalizing a deal to purchase the building that formerly housed St. Mary’s Star of the Sea School on Moore Street from the Boston Archdiocese for a reported $1.8 million but this…
Keeping Kelsey in our thoughts
[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…
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…
Merger Furor – Parents express concern over plans to combine Alighieri and Umana
By all accounts the Dante Alighieri Elementary School in East Boston is a success story. MCAS test scores and enrollment are up, there’s strong parental involvement and because of the small size of the building classes are relatively small compared…