Special to the Independent Last week, Rep. Joe McGonagle, along with his colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, passed their Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget. Funded at $58 billion, $62 million below Governor Maura Healey’s budget proposal, the House’s…
Month: May 2024
EHS Football Team Will Open 2024 Season Versus Mansfield High
The Everett High School football team will open its 2024 schedule against Mansfield High on Friday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at Everett Memorial Stadium. According to Everett’s second-head coach Justin Flores, the two teams scrimmaged last year and “we…
City of Everett Launches Summer STEM Camp
Mayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce the City of Everett’s Youth Development and Enrichment Department has launched a Summer STEM Camp that will run from Monday, July 1 to Wednesday, July 3, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the…
News Briefs
City Has Begun Flushing Hydrants Throughout the City Flushing will take place Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., until Wednesday, June 12 Everett, MA – The City of Everett’s Water Department will begin flushing water mains throughout the…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Malden Catholic Students From Everett Achieve Honor Roll – Second and Third Quarter Malden Catholic students have completed the coursework required for the second and third quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. The school has three categories for outstanding academic…
College Protesters Should Embrace Being Arrested
Acts of civil disobedience by definition imply that a person knowingly is breaking the law and is willing to accept the legal consequences. When Rosa Parks took a seat at the front of that bus in Alabama and was arrested…
Opponents of Aid To Ukraine Should Watch Franklin
Here’s the plot-line: A world superpower, led by a ruler-for-life who does not tolerate dissent, invades a young sovereign nation, which at one time had been part of the superpower, with a large military force in order to restore the…
EHS Sports Roundup
Boys Track Tops Chelsea, 68-63 The Everett High boys outdoor track and field team earned a tightly-contested 68-63 triumph over Greater Boston League (GBL) rival Chelsea last Thursday. Leading the way for coach Jehu Cimea’s Crimson Tide was sophomore speedster…
Obituaries 05-01-2024
Jean Pietrantonio Head of Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Chelsea Jean M. (Woodford) Pietrantonio, a longtime resident of Everett, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family and beloved pets on Friday, April 26, at…