By John Lynds Significant development in East Boston, Revere and along the MBTA Blue Line corridor has the MBTA re-examining the stalled Blue-Line/Red-Line Connector. At an October 30 MBTA board meeting, board chairman Joseph Aiello asked agency staff for an…
Month: November 2017
Probe Into Russian-Backed Facebook Ads Hits Home
By John Lynds A Congressional probe into Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has uncovered pro-Trump ads that were allegedly purchased by the Russians on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. One Facebook ad released by Congress…
Kiwanis Kicks Off Annual Holiday Food Drive for Grace Church
By John Lynds Each year East Boston Kiwanis Club members and volunteers kick off the holiday season by teaming up with East Boston Savings Bank and Shaw’s Supermarket shoppers to collect canned goods for Eastie’s most vulnerable residents. On November…
Webster Bank Awards CRA Grant to NOAH
By John Lynds East Boston’s Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) received a boost for its housing services last week from Webster Bank. NOAH was a recipient of a $3,500 Community Reinvestment Act grant from Webster Bank. The money was part…
Rep Madaro Named Public Advocate of the Year Award by the Greater Boston Food Bank
By John Lynds East Boston State Representative Adrian Madaro, whose career in public service began as Chief of Staff in former Rep. Carlo Basile’s office, said one of the main issues he worked on then and continues to work on…
Police Briefs 11-08-2017
District Seven Police Report October 29, 2017 Around 5:30am in the area of 28 Saratoga Street while investigating a call for a suspicious person, District Seven Officers place a Hispanic male from Beverly Mass under arrest for an outstanding warrant…
Community Reinvestment Grants: Supporting the Groups That Support Our Youth
By Suffolk DA Dan Conley Some of the most important work we do as prosecutors is not inside the walls of a courtroom but out in the community. In particular, guiding young people toward positive influences, helping them avoid unhealthy…
We Can Make It Less Profitable to Traffic Opioids
By John A. Cassara and Nathan Proctor The president will now declare what many of us experience first hand, the opioid epidemic is a national emergency. Frankly, with as many as 59,000 deaths in 2016, there doesn’t seem to be any other…
The Person You Have to Fear is the Guy Next Door with a Gun
The mass-shooting-of-the-week in America that took place in a church in a rural Texas town Sunday morning follows what has become an all-too-familiar pattern in our nation these days: An unhappy white guy, with no particular axe-to-grind, decides to slaughter…
Thank You to Our Veterans
Its was 99 years ago this Saturday, on Nov. 11, 1918, that World War I formally came to a conclusion on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. Americans observed the first anniversary of the end…