More than 100 Everett High School seniors will be heading off to college next year, the recipients of John and Abigail Adams Scholar awards. The scholarship provides free tuition to any Massachusetts state college, university or community college. For the…
Category: Editorials
For an Everett Football Player It Doesn’t Get Better Than Notre Dame
Last week’s announcement that Everett High School football standout John Montelus has accepted a scholarship and offer to play Notre Dame football at the legendary Indiana University is as big as a local sports story can get. Notre Dame football…
Residency Requirement Step in Right Direction
Everett city jobs ought to be for Everett residents. This makes good sense because if you work and live here and send your kids to school here and shop here – well, Everett becomes a better place because of all…
Congressional District Change Brings Rep. Capuano to Everett
In January, 2013, Everett’s Congressman will no longer be Edward Markey. Because of the most recent redistricting, Congressman Michael Capuano will officially take over as Everett’s man in Washington. Markey, of course, has served the city with great distinction. He…
School Choice
One of the reasons the Everett School Committee votes against school choice is simple. There aren’t enough seats for Everett’s public school students let alone seats for those from other communities who wish to send their children here. There is…
The Early Warmth
There is nothing, we repeat, nothing, quite so delightful and satisfying as the early heat visiting us in April. There was more early heat early on in March, which was also satisfying beyond belief. What we are facing with this…
The 2012 Football Banquet
The 2011 Everett High School football team celebrated one of the greatest seasons of all time. The banquet held April 1 at Anthony’s in Malden was representative of that winning season in nearly every way. It was a celebration befitting…
New Bleachers at Rec Center a Necessity
It is fairly incomprehensible that extended discussions have been taking place about replacing the worn and worthless and frankly unsafe bleachers at the Everett Recreation Center. Last week, City Services Operations Manager Peter Pietrantonio gave the Board of Aldermen an…
Easter and Passover
Everett, Easter and Passover are one this weekend. While nearly everything about our lives has changed over the decades, Easter remains what it was and what it might always be, perhaps the most significant Christian holiday which marks the resurrection…
Eleanor Honey Kennedy
Everett has lost one of its finest ladies with the death recently of Eleanor Kennedy. One of ten children who was born here of Irish immigrant parents, Mrs. Kennedy came to know this place and to love it. Her passing…