Mystic Valley Elder Services (MVES) was recently awarded a $100,000 sustaining grant over a 4-year period through Cummings’s Foundation “$100k for 100” program. The grant was awarded to MVES in support of its Elder Independence Fund, a 21-year program that…
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Mayor Carlo DeMaria Deserves the Credit for the Resort/Casino
Seven years ago on a cold November afternoon, Steve Wynn came to Everett at the invitation of Mayor Carlo DeMaria to look at a possible site for a casino. The land was an old industrial site on the Mystic River…
Our National Disgrace at the Border
Hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texas where they had been detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday, — The New…
Guest Op-ed:Celebrate Your Community on Independence Day
By Quint Studer As I go about my work of helping communities revitalize and reinvent themselves, I often get to see the best of America and I’m reminded that the foundations that built this country are still just as important…
Obituaries 06-26-2019
Robert Sena Retired salesman Robert T. “Bobby” Sena passed away Saturday evening, June 22 at the Cambridge Health Alliance Hospital in Everett surrounded by his loving family. He was 80 years old. Born and raised in Revere, the son of the…
EHS 2019 Graduation
McGonagle and State House Colleagues Pass $1.9 Billion Transportation Funding Bill
Rep. Joe McGonagle, along with his colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature passed a House Bill 69, authorizing $200 million for Chapter 90 funding to help municipalities complete road, bridge and infrastructure improvement projects. The bill also includes $1.5 billion for…
Encore Facts and Fun: Tidbits to Know About Encore on Opening Day
By Seth Daniel and Lauren Bennett Carousel at Front •The carousel in the front atrium is a jaw-dropping centerpiece to the front door of the building, framed in glass on three sides and having the waterfront in the background. The…
Another Sad Sign of the Times
The news that North American right whales — considered to be the second-most endangered marine mammal in the world — have been migrating further north into Canada in just the past two years because of a shift in their traditional…
Guest Op-ed: What a Roller Coaster the Past Seven Years Have Been
By Mike McLaughlin I will never forget that cold Monday night in November of 2012 as I walked out onto the sidewalk of City Hall to talk with our Fire Department, who was picketing out front at the time. I would…