Category: News
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…
Everett Rental Relief Program off to Slow Start
The vast majority of the $1.5 million set aside to help renters and homeowners with emergency assistance to pay rent and mortgages has yet to be tapped into, according to an update at the City Council on Monday night. The…
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…
Holiday COVID-19 Surge Hits Everett With More Than 600 Cases Last Week
he numbers of COVID-19 cases in Everett hit a surge last week, hitting what City officials said was the post-holiday surge of cases. For the first time, Everett had more than 600 cases in a week – logging 688 over…
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…
DiDomenico’s Environmental Justice Bill Included in Landmark Climate Change Legislation
Last week, the Massachusetts Legislature passed breakthrough climate legislation that overhauls the state’s climate laws, drives down greenhouse gas emissions, and creates clean energy jobs. The bill, An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy, includes major changes to…
News Briefs
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Update The Department of Unemployment Assistance will begin issuing the additional 11 weeks of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) provided by the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020. Payments of PUA and the additional $300 Federal…