East Boston’s Curtis Guild Elementary School is one of eight of the district’s ‘turnaround’ school that will benefit from a grant from the Target Corporation to fund an artist residency and ticket access program with Citi Performing Arts Center. The goal of the program is to improve school success, engage families and strengthen community...
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Zumix sets opening for March 29
Zumix, the popular youth program that combines music and performing arts in an after school setting, announced that its new home on the corner of Sumner and Orleans streets will officially open on Monday, March 29. “Zumix is thrilled to announce that after five years of hard work, their beautiful new firehouse is opening,”...
LaMattina will chair new combined committee, as well as Ways and Means
The Boston City Council has merged the Committee on Aviation and Transportation and the Committee on City and Neighborhood Services as the new City, Neighborhood Services Committee. City Council Michael Ross has appointed City Councilor Sal LaMattina to chair the new committee as well as co-chair Ways and Means. For the newly created committee,...
Despair and hope
A young man named ‘Bobby’ from the Meridian House – a drug addiction treatment facility in East Boston-stood up and told his story to a crowd of residents, volunteers and health care workers on Saturday at East Boston’s drug summit. “I was a good kid, from a good home with no problems,” said Bobby....
Relay For Life planning event set for Feb. 25
It was one of the best fundraising events to date. In the neighborhood that was on one hand solemn and filled with emotions, tears, and the remembrances of those who lost their battle against cancer and on the other hand an event that inspired and was filled with hope and triumph. Over 180 local...
Permanent connection – EWC holds a seminar on social media
The fairly new subgroup of women of the East Boston Chamber of Commerce that began at the end of 2008 held another successful seminar last week at the Atlantic Works Gallery at 80 Border Street. The Chamber’s Eastie Women Connect (EWC)–a group that provides a forum for women of all ages to connect and...
A new day dawns – The Notos plan second location in Wakefield
Since 1952, first as Santoro’s and later as Sonny Noto’s, little has changed at the sub shop and restaurant at the corner of Central Square and Bennington Street. When Sonny Noto’s father-in-law, Tony DeRosa, bought the building six decades ago he wanted to serve good, home cooked subs and other specialties to East Boston’s...
Coast Guard OKs Yemeni shipment
The public need for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has outweighed the risk of allowing a Yemini LNG tanker from entering Boston Harbor, passing yards away from East Boston’s shoreline and offloading in Everett at the end of this month. The United States Coast Guard, following a hearing last month led by House Speaker Robert...
Second man convicted in multi-state ID scam
A Texas man has been convicted in federal court last week of helping a convicted East Boston man steal credit cards from health club locker rooms and take more than $400,000 in cash advances at horse race tracks in at least 10 states. Dennis Savarese, of Texas, was convicted of conspiracy, aggravated identity theft...
A casual and telling get-together with Governor Deval Patrick
Planned for 11,000 inhabitants, the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side of Chicago housed over 27,000 residents at its peak and of those residents 95 percent of the housing development’s inhabitants were unemployed and listed as public assistance as their only income source, and 40 percent of the households were single-parent, female-headed households...
