Parade of Nations participants proudly show off their cultural colors and their flags during last Saturday’s 4th Annual Multicultural Festival at Sacramone Park. The Festival is a melting pot of Latino and Central American cultures – among many others –…
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Old News Is Not News (And Neither Are Rumors)
We received an e-mail this past week from one of our readers to which we feel compelled to respond. The email is as follows: “Hi…just trying to figure out why your latest newspaper would NOT include any information about Mayor…
Health Connector Announces Navigator Grant
The Massachusetts Health Connector recently announced the Joint Committee for Children’s Health Care in Everett is one of fifteen (15) organizations across the Commonwealth that will receive grants and serve as Navigators, community-based experts available to help people sign up…
GBL-NEC Football Jamboree a Success
Everett High School’s first GBL-NEC football jamboree was a huge success as the event, matching four schools from each league, drew a large crowd to Everett Memorial Stadium Friday night. Of course, the Crimson Tide made it a successful showing…
MGC Adopts Flexible Rating Process in Licensing Hearings, to Begin Monday
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) is getting set to begin the evaluations of both Region A casino applications next Monday in a complex, but deliberate, process that is likely to last one week or, perhaps, more. Like the previous slot…
Wynn Offers MBTA $6 Million For Land to Build Access Road
Wynn Resorts has offered $6 million cash to the MBTA for the purchase of three parcels of land on Lower Broadway that would allow the potential casino the ability to create an access road from Rt. 99. The two-acre parcel…
Summer City Works Participates In Community Service
Recently over 100 of Everett’s youth, who are attending the City Works summer camp, assisted the Everett Beautification Committee in building flower beds and planting flowers outside of the Samuel Gentile Recreation Center. Camp members and counselors planted the flowers…
Right on Course: Brodeur Has TPC Boston Ready for PGA Playoff Event
The Deutsche Bank Championship (DBC) is this weekend and Tom Brodeur, golf course superintendent at Tournament Player’s Club [TPC] Boston, has the course ready for the world’s best golfers. “The course [condition] for the tournament is not a lot different…
Old Friends
Former Ambassador to the Vatican and Mayor of the City of Boston, Raymond Flynn joined by his lovely wife Kathleen took time in their busy schedule to meet with their old friend State Representative Wayne A. Matewsky. The Flynn’s were visiting the…
Everett Community Health Partnership: Everett Community Health Partnership to Hold Event to Build Support for Commercial Urban Agriculture Expansion Project
In March of this year, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) awarded the Everett Community Health Partnership (ECHP) one of nine Urban Agriculture grants to explore the development of commercial urban agriculture in Everett. With this grant funding, ECHP,…