East Boston Head Start program was well represented as Head Start centers from across the city celebrated the program’s 46th anniversary. Children and Staff from Eastie’s Head Start, run by Action for Boston Community Development’s (ABCD) APAC office on Meridian Street, took part in the celebration on the Boston Common and were among 29...
An East Boston man has been arrested and charged in connection with last week’s daylight stabbing in the Bremen Street Park. Carlos Velasquez, 18, of East Boston was arrested this week by Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to Troop F. State Police Sgt. Rick Galeazzi and Troopers John Hubbard, John Morris and Francis Glasheen went...
Clamming is all but dead on the Wood Island flats since a fuel spill of some kind and of undetermined size allegedly wiped out the clam population last October. No one in a position of responsibility aware of the ruined clam flats has been willing or able to pinpoint the exact reason for the...
Maggie Malsch, an East Boston woman will take part in the annual Pan Mass Challenge (PMC)–a two day bike-a-thon that raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Maggie will ride in the 32nd annual PMC on August 6 and 7 and be among 5,000 cyclists who will ride with the collective goal of raising...
The recent Salesian Boys and Girls Club Annual Breakfast held at Suffolk Downs was a big hit, which attracted all the right people for all the right reasons. Those of us who know and who admire Father John Nazzaro made sure to be there as the Salesian Boys and Girls Club presided over by...
State Treasurer Steve Grossman is no stranger to East Boston. In fact, his family goes so far back here they are buried in the Jewish Cemetery off Bennington Street. During the campaign in which he was elected, Grossman was a frequent visitor here – and he didn’t just come to say his thing –...
Karen Anne Kelble Worked for Citizen Bank Boston Karen Ann (Sangermano) Kelble of Saugus, formerly of East Boston, died n June 26. She was a graduate of Pope John High School, Class of 1983 and Newbury College and was employed at Citizen Bank Boston. The beloved wife of James J. Keble Sr., with whom...
-By John Lynds john@eastietimes.com An East Boston student was among the 48 young writers whose achievements were celebrated at_ the State House. Steven Gingras, a resident and 10th grader at Boston Latin School, received an Honors award in this year’s Massachusetts Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and...
-By John Lynds john@eastietimes.com East Boston’s Piers Park Sailing Center will take part in a $8,500 grant from the Boston Redevelopment Authority to support various programming events this summer as part of the Waterfront Activation Plan for the Charlestown Navy Yard (CNY). The disbursement is made possible through mitigation funds received from the Carlyle...
-By John Lynds john@eastietimes.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel in the vicinity of the Chelsea Street Bridge in East Boston and Chelsea by 2012. The replacement of the existing Chelsea Street Bridge with a new vertical lift bridge will...
