Massport announced this week that applications for the scholarship honoring the memory of the late Donna Rauseo, a long-time Port Authority employee and lifelong resident of East Boston, are being accepted. The $5,000 Donna Rauseo Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually…
Zumix is Selected to Help out in Rio+20 Musical Project
East Boston’s national award winning youth music and arts has been tapped by the United Nations, the City of Boston and the Sounding Board to work on the Boston Rio+20 Project—a project aimed at raising environmental awareness through music. Zumix…
What’s Holding Eastie Back?
It has been about three months since Mayor Menino announced that he was creating a development scenario for East Boston’s waterfront that would reincarnate the waterfront. The East Boston waterfront was to go from something largely underutilized to something booming…
Obituaries 03-14-2012
Sophia Maria Tuttavilla Helped Establish Community Center Sophia Maria “Mary” (DeFilippo) Tuttavilla died in East Boston on March 10. Mrs. Tuttavilla and her daughters were one of the first families to take up residence in Brandywyne Village and she had…
For the Welfare of Maverick St.
A unique development will shortly transform the decaying Welfare Building on Maverick Street into a vibrant commercial development. John and Melissa Tyler recently closed on the property and are planning to break ground on the project with a neighborhood block…
Zumin Welcomes Moya Brennan
Known as the First Lady of Celtic Music, Ireland native Moya Brennan has provided music to such blockbuster films as the Titanic and the Last of the Mohicans and now she’ll make her first appearance in East Boston on Saturday,…