Author: Times Staff

Guest Op-Ed: Turn the Page

Dr. Glenn Mollette   Fall season officially begins September 22 this year. For every season there is a change. Most of us like the seasons especially if we can have four of them.   I like the fall as the weather seems…

Obituaries 09-23-2020

Marie Goldspring Retired Waitress Marie A. (Correale) Goldspring of East Boston passed away on Sept. 16.  For many years, Marie worked as a waitress at the 1800 Club in East Boston, finishing her career at Brother’s Restaurant in Winthrop. She was…

DUA Disburses Final Lost Wages Assistance Benefits

The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) has disbursed the sixth and final Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) $300 supplemental benefit to unemployment claimants in the Commonwealth. The application for these federal supplemental unemployment benefits was submitted by the Massachusetts Emergency Management…

MassDOT Advisory: Statewide Exit Renumbering Project

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing an upcoming virtual Public Information Meeting for MassDOT’s Statewide Exit Renumbering Project on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. This project is converting all existing exit numbers on freeways to a milepost-based…

Apocalypse — Now

The photos of the wildfires in our western states that have incinerated entire communities and that have turned daytime skies to night by their heavy smoke have illustrated the dramatic effects of climate change upon the daily lives of millions…

Donald Trump Is No Winston Churchill

Rage, the new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump, has revealed unequivocally that Trump deliberately has downplayed the lethality of the Covid-19 pandemic from the very beginning of the virus’s detection in the United…