Local history has shown that when fire hydrants don’t work and fire apparatus is sent to put out a fire, this is the ultimate bad situation. This very situation existed in Chelsea in the days before the Great Fire of…
Category: Editorials
The Bond Brothers Construction Company
Last week, we noted in a news story that Bond Brothers Construction Company, located here for 107 years and led by fourth generation family member Ed Bond, donated $25,000 to the Jimmy Fund. With this editorial, we praise Mr. Bond…
The leadership issue that won’t go away
Representative Stat Smith is a very, very busy man. He is a representative. He is a school committeeman. He is a busy businessman. Being all of the above all the time is an impossibility, obviously. We have urged Smith to…
The perfect summer
Forgive us our obsession with the New England weather and its nuances. However, we are endlessly fascinated by the weather. Watching the weather and measuring its heartbeat is almost as interesting as being inside the chambers of the State House…
Bike path a big boost
Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s willingness to support a Community Development effort to create a bike path for Everett residents is a giant leap forward for residents of this city who feel intimidated by automobile traffic and would like to have a…
Helping out Somerville during an emergency
Following Saturday’s extraordinary downpour of rain, the city of Somerville’s police and fire station as well as its dispatch and 911 center was literally and physically put out of business. The city of Everett expeditiously offered itself as a temporary…
And speaking of the recent rainstorms
The Saturday downpour that doused Everett and the region caused the heated earth, grass, trees, bushes, streets and structures to be cooled off as well as cleaned-off of dust and soot. It was a wonderful downpour for those reasons. To…
A nice idea but a very costly one
The DiMaria Administration recently hired a consulting firm to measure the efficacy and efficiency of combining many – six – public service and safety buildings, including city hall, into one. The ideas was to see if one big complex –…
Everyone is away
The 4th of July holiday was a great success. Hundreds of thousands swarmed for music, food and fireworks and virtually no arrests, no outrageous violence and very little in the way of inconvenience. It was a quintessential American weekend with…
Thoughts on the coming of July Fourth
It is the summer of discontent as we approach the 4th of July holiday. In the 234th year of American Independence, there is a feeling held among Americans that the business life of the land is unnatural, strained, weak, and…