Author: Independent Staff
DiDomenico and Advocates Unveil Legislation To Expand Language Access in Government Agencies
Special to the Independent Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico joined a collection of policymakers, immigrants-rights activists with the Mass Speaks Coalition, and directly-impacted individuals to unveil his Language Access and Inclusion Act, which would dramatically expand the availability of non-English…
DiDomenico Joins Mothers Out Front Rally For Climate Justice
Foresteire’s Trial Underway
The jury trial of former Everett School Superintendent Frederick Foresteire got underway this past Monday in Malden District Court. Foresteire is facing multiple counts of indecent assault & battery and simple assault & battery for his alleged actions involving three…
News In Brief
DeMaria Announces Upcoming Events in Celebration of Black History Month Mayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce upcoming events to celebrate Black History Month. The month of February is recognized as Black History Month across the United States. It calls…
Local Students in the News
Dorvil Named to Assumption University’s Dean’s List Assumption University has announced that Gwen Dorvil, of Everett, Class of 2023, has been named to the University’s Dean’s List for the spring 2022 semester. Students named to the Dean’s List must achieve…
Malden Catholic Welcomes Cardinal O’Malley for Catholic Schools Week
By Marianne Salza Malden Catholic High School welcomed Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, in celebration of their Catholic Schools Week liturgy on February 1. “I am delighted I could be here to mark this important week,” Cardinal O’Malley…
McGonagle Meets With City and DCR for “Greening the Gateway Cities” Campaign
Last week, Rep. Joe McGonagle met with the City Conservation Agent Tom Philbin as well as staff from the Department of Conservation and Recreation to explore DCR’s “Greening the Gateway Cities” campaign, “an environmental and energy efficiency program designed to…
No Child Should Live in Deep Poverty
We wish to voice our support for a bill sponsored by Everett State Senator Sal DiDomenico, the Assistant Majority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate, that seeks to accelerate the timetable for lifting children in our state out of what is…
Boston Magazine Article Is Must Reading
This month’s Boston Magazine features a lengthy article about our city entitled, “The Mayor, the Muckraker, and the Bombshell North of Boston.” The gist of the article, according to the sub-headline, is that a local newspaper (not us) “…..spent years…