Last week Governor Charlie Baker used the Maverick MBTA station as the backdrop to his daily Covid-19 press briefing and to highlight the accelerated infrastructure work on the Blue Line that wrapped up Sunday. Baker was joined by Transportation Secretary…
Author: John Lynds
Eastie COVID-19 Updates
East Boston now officially has the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the City of Boston according to new data released by the Boston Public Health Commission on Friday. While the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline…
Walsh Makes Big Push for Accurate Boston Census Count
Last week, Mayor Martin Walsh chose the East Boston Library on Bremen Street to kick off the year-long outreach campaign to ensure a fair and complete count in the 2020 U.S. Census. At the time Walsh was joined by a…
Donald McKay House to Officially Get CPA Funding
Back in February Mayor Martin Walsh and the City’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) recommended one project for inclusion in the next round for the Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding. The Eastie project was one of 40 across the city totalling…
Councilor Edwards Holds Online Eversource Substation Hearing
On the heels of a successful online Boston City Council hearing called by City Councilor Lydia Edwards regarding Eversource’s plans to place a substation at the City Yards in West Eagle Square, local activists have filed a civil rights complaint…
Pazza on Porter Gives Back to EBNHC With Help From Tenure England Vodka
Pazza on Porter, which opened last fall, to rave reviews from Eastie residents has been doing its share to help out frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pazza owners Mivan Spencer and Raffaele Scalzi of the Boston Amici Group…
Councilor Lydia Edwards Reacts to George Floyd’s Murder and Protests
When City Councilor Lydia Edwards first viewed the cellphone footage of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until he died she had to stop the video several times. “I had to stop it several times,” said Edwards,…
Eastie’s Jesse Purvis Named to Serve as Councilor Edwards’s New Director of Policy
Last week District 1 City Councilor Lydia Edwards announced she has hired Jeffries Point resident Jesse Purvis as her new Director of Policy and Communications. Purvis joins Edwards’s office after successfully graduating from UMass Law where he served as a…
Madaro, EBNHC Host Another Virtual Town Hall
Last Friday afternoon Rep. Adrian Madaro along with East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s CEO Manny Lopes and CMO Dr. Jackie Fantes held a virtual town hall to discuss the clinical context of the COVID-19 outbreak, its impacts on the local…
Eastie COVID-19 Updates
As the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline, East Boston still remains a virus hotspot within the city limits and cases of the virus rose nearly 10 percent in one week. On Friday the Boston Public…