Excel Academy’s Elizabeth Metts receives Milken Educator Award Special to the Times-Free Press This typical Tuesday morning was turned upside down for Excel Academy Charter High School—in the very ...

This month, the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) Executive Director Andrés Holder announced the BCC will be expanding programming and setting up shop right here in East Boston through a partnership with ...

Story by Patrick O’Connor Football practice got underway on Friday, August 25 at Sartori Stadium and continued all last week as the East Boston High School football team gets ready for the new season.

Judging from the first community meeting at the Harbor View Neighborhood Association regarding 1 Short St., at which members sent developer Joe Ricupero and his attorney Matt Eckel back to the drawing ...

By Cary Shuman It is Thanksgiving week and the administrators, teachers, students, and parents at Bradley Elementary School have a lot for which to be thankful. The 300-student school (pre-K-6), led ...

It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2026 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who ourselves are close to three-quarters ...

Gino Ferri His family remains his proudest legacy His family remains his proudest legacy Gino Ferri of Saugus, formerly of East Boston and Winthrop, died on Friday evening at the Beth Israel Deaconess ...

Theresa J. HarrisA woman who was very devoted to her faith who kept God close to her Family and friends attended vising hours on Monday, January 19th in the Vertuccio Smith & Vazza Beechwood Home for ...

Reverend John Kilmartin, F.D.P., a man credited with awaking a parish that was sleepily heading into extinction, has died. Rev. Kilmartin, pastor of St. Joseph-St. Lazarus Church in East Boston passed ...

Christine M. Bossi A woman of faith and grace Funeral services were held for Christine M. (Noyes) Bossi, long time East Boston resident, who died peacefully on Monday, December 8th at the Kaplan ...

For the first time this year a mosquito pool in East Boston has tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). Tests performed earlier this week confirmed a WNV-positive mosquito pool in the neighborhood ...

By John Lynds john@eastietimes.com Some people fight to win and some people fight to lose, so the saying goes. Well, it seems with the Democratic primary just around the corner on Tuesday, September ...