The City Council voted former Councilor Peter Napolitano as the new assistant city clerk last week in a solid 10-0 vote that one councilor said was just another back room deal. “I’ve been involved in the City all my life,”…
Author: Seth Daniel
Firefighting in the Blood: Rocco Andreotti Always Wanted to Be a Firefighter
Many young men often don’t want to follow in their same career path of their fathers, but it was exactly the opposite for Everett Firefighter Rocco Andreotti, who like his father before him, has served more than 30 years on…
Taking Control: Council President Matewsky Looks to Bring Order, Renovations to Council
By all accounts, the election of Councilor Wayne Matewsky as the new Council President has brought a clean slate to the City’s legislative body after one of the most technologically, and emotionally, challenging years in decades. After a good start…
Life-Long Everett Resident Celebrates 90 Years
For 90 years, Grace Harris has been representing her City with the utmost faith and…well, grace. Living in her childhood home on upper Broadway since she was 5, Harris celebrated her 90th birthday at the Glendale Methodist Church on Sunday,…
EPS, Teachers Union Meeting This Week about Hybrid-Education Timelines: Vaccine Being Distributed Has Changed the Conversation
The Everett Public School leadership team and the Everett Teachers Association (ETA) are meeting this week to discuss timelines and details of a potential return to a hybrid in-person education model as soon as February, said Supt. Priya Tahiliani. Tahiliani…
First Responders, School Nurses Ready to Get Vaccine This Week
The City moved from busted to flush in a few day’s time last week when it came to vaccinating its first responders for COVID-19, with Everett not being on the list to get vaccine for first responders last week and…
Mayoral Charter Change to School Committee Passes Legislature
The Charter Change Home Rule Petition that would make the mayor a voting member of the School Committee passed both the state House and Senate on Jan. 5, and as of Tuesday was still waiting for Gov. Charlie Baker’s signature…
Schools Looking to Keep Positives of Remote Life as Return Plans Start
As plans begin for a return to in-person schooling potentially this spring in some form, the temptation is to leave all that happened under remote learning behind and plow into normal life and in-person education once again. However, Supt. Priya…
Block Properties Among the First to See Future of the Commercial Triangle
To the initiated, the Commercial Triangle remains a conglomeration of somewhat blighted legacy industrial properties, but more and more developers from outside of the city are catching the vision for the area that Mayor Carlo DeMaria and late Building Inspector…
District, State Leaders Slam Plan to Require 10th Grade MCAS
The MCAS test has been at the back of the line since the pandemic forced schools into different modes of learning, but the state has brought the 10th grade MCAS test front and center with the news it will require…