By John Lynds At Kelley Square Pub in East Boston on election night last Tuesday, Lydia Edwards stood on a chair in the middle of the dinning room and declared her historic win as the first woman of color to…
ICA Watershed in Eastie Announces Inaugural Exhibition
By John Lynds It may be a ways away but there’s already excitement and buzz surrounding the ICA’s (Institute of Contemporary Art) first exhibition at the institute’s planned second location on East Boston’s waterfront. The ICA will take a formerly…
HYM Files Letter of Intent with BPDA
By John Lynds At Monday night’s Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association meeting HYM Investment Group LLC’s principal Thomas O’Brien announced that his group, which purchased the 161-acre Suffolk Downs Racetrack site in the spring, has filed its Letter of Intent with…
‘Hyphen’
As a first-generation Salvadorian American growing up in East Boston, Maria Servellón tried to distinguish where her Salvadorian and American sides began and ended. She remembers speaking English inside and outside of school; but at home, the only child spoke…
JPNA Votes Down Bar Proposal
By John Lynds There was audible gasp from the crowd when the vote against a new bar and restaurant proposed for the former East Boston Kitchen (EBK) on Sumner Street was read at Monday night’s Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association meeting.…
Police Briefs 11-15-2017
District Seven Police Report November 4, 2017 No Arrest. November 5, 2017 Around 4:00pm in the area of Monmouth Street East Boston, a white Hispanic male from East Boston was arrested and charged with Disorderly Conduct. Around 5:30pm District…