Ryan McGowan had been a successful assistant coach for several seasons before becoming the boys basketball head coach at the Pioneer Charter School of Science of Everett in 2017. Now in his fifth season, McGowan and his team are riding…
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Cambridge Health Alliance Wins Awards Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north communities, has received three awards from Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) for being one of the top practices in Massachusetts for…
Caritas Communities Goes Solar in Everett
Non-profit housing provider Caritas Communities, has partnered with locally-based Sunwealth, a clean energy investment firm, to install solar arrays on two Everett properties housing low-income individuals. Together, these two installations will produce 1,346,598 kWh of clean energy of their lifetime…
The Everett ISD Lends a Helping Others
On Monday, The City of Everett received a call from a disabled resident who had hired individuals to come shovel her home, but after paying was still unable to make it down her handicap ramp in her wheelchair in case…
Everett High School 59-47 Over Revere
Everett Boxers Advance in Golden Gloves Tournament
Three fighters out of the Everett-based Broadway Boxing Club, including a former Everett High football standout, are competing in the 2022 Lowell Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament held at Lowell Auditorium. Gilbert Kabamba, who earned two Super Bowl rings as…
City Council Inquires Into Justice of the Peace Fees Charged by Clerk’s Office
At the January 24 meeting of the City Council, two items generated controversy. The first was an order by Councilor Stephanie Martins asking that the matter of “cash collected as a fee for officiating during work hours at City Hall…
Excellence in the Everett Public Schools
Special to the Independent Highlights from Around the District The Everett Public Schools (EPS) recently completed the exhaustive and intense Tiered Focus Monitoring Review administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. And in a tremendous and thorough exhibit…
School Committee Takes up a Number of Issues
The Everett School Committee discussed a number of controversial items at its January 18 meeting amid the backdrop of the gender and racial discrimination action filed by School Superintendent Priya Tahiliani the day before with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discriminatioin…
Tahiliani Files MCAD Complaint Against City
According to published news reports, Everett Superintendent of Schools Priya Tahiliani has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) alleging racial and gender discrimination. Tahiliani unanimously was appointed as superintendent in December 2019 with a contract that…