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…
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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…
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…
City Calls on Residents to Avoid Trick Or Treating
The City’s Board of Health and City Manager Tom Ambrosino said this week they are discouraging parents and children from celebrating Halloween or Day of the Dead by trick or treating. The Board of Health issued a resolution late last…
City Debit Card Program Gets Leg Up from Radical Politics
Who says radical socialists don’t have a heart? Apparently no one in Chelsea, as anonymous donors supporting the fringe-idea of a Universal Basic Income for all people stepped up to help fund two months of food payments for the upcoming…
Comprehensive Housing Initiatives Look to Stem Oct. 17 Eviction Tidal Wave
The coming Saturday has been a date marked on the calendar for many State Legislators – including State Sen. Sal DiDomenico – and dozens of community advocates who have been fearing for months a tidal wave of evictions from renters…
Gentle Slope Upward in COVID Cases Seen at CHA Everett
The break in COVID-19 cases at CHA Everett hospital has subsided, with a “gentle slope” upwards that has the hospital cautiously implementing protocols that were successful during last spring’s surge, but at the same time assuring there is not a…
Anthony Caggiano Announces Candidacy For Northeast Regional School Committee
Special to The Record Anthony Caggiano has announced that he will be candidate for the Revere seat on the Northeast Metropolitan Regional School Committee in the Nov. 3 election. Caggiano is a graduate of Revere High School (Class of 1976)…
News in Brief
Food Distribution Update Food distribution is now thru October 30. Beginning on October 13, food pantries moved to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the following locations: •Monday: Learning Center (Hawthorne St.). •Wednesday: Washington Park…