The state announced last week a $774 million comprehensive plan to stabilize and grow the Massachusetts economy. The plan focuses on getting people back to work, supporting small businesses, fostering innovation, revitalizing downtowns and ensuring housing stability. Partnerships for Recovery…
Month: October 2020
Housing Families Inc. awarded 10-Year Cummings Foundation grant
Housing Families, Inc is one of 30 local nonprofits to share in $10 million in funding from Cummings Foundation. The Malden-based organization will receive $250,000 over 10 years. Housing Families Inc. (HFI) works to end family homelessness by providing safe,…
Istanbul Diner Café brings a touch of the Mediterranean to Revere
The Istanbul Diner Café is bringing a new specialty, Turkish and Mediterranean food, to the city’s dining community and the response has been off the charts. Residents have been turning out in big numbers for the beautiful, new restaurant, located…
MWRA’s COVID Resurgence Study sees alarming trend towards second wave
Not everyone gets tested for COVID-19 but everyone goes to the bathroom and scientists studying the recent data at the MWRA’s Deer Island’s waste treatment facility in neighboring Winthrop are seeing an alarming trend. In June, the MWRA Board of…
Obituaries 10-29-2020
Patricia MedranoRetired office and billing administrator, devoted to home and family Patricia “Patty” (Frongillo) Medrano, 75, passed away on Tuesday, October 20 at the Melrose Wakefield Hospital from sudden complications of her ongoing illnesses. Born and raised in Everett,…
EBNHC to celebrate 50th Anniversary with virtual celebration
A half-century ago, the late Dr. James Taylor’s compassionate work with the elderly population on aging issues like hypertension, heart disease and diabetes brought him to East Boston. Dr. Taylor found that many of his patients in Eastie had little…
Guest Op-Ed: Let your heart drive you to vote, but put your mind into your voting
By Glenn Mollette Most of the time people marry because at that moment that’s where their hearts have led them to be. For better or worse many people stay in marriages most of their lives because they have given their…
Editorial 10-29-2020
Be sure to vote Okay — this is it. The long presidential campaign has come to an end and it will all be over by the time this newspaper is published next week. Although a record-breaking number of Americans already…
Long Walk to Freedom: Chelsea’s Tommy Rosa Released After 34 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
Walking down the steps from MCI-Norfolk jail to freedom after 34 years ofbeing wrongly incarcerated for a 1980s murder in Boston, Chelsea’s TommyRosa Jr. looked ahead and saw his son for the first time without a barrier orbars between them…
Undecided: City Officials Discuss Search Firm for Diversity Inclusion Officer Position
Councillor-at-Large Leo Robinson was an original co-sponsor of the motion to hire a diversity inclusion and equity officer for the first time in the city’s history. Robinson favors bringing in a search firm to aid the city in such key…