At the Senior Social this past week Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Carolyn Lightburn, Director of Human Services, and Dale Palma, Director of the Council on Aging graciously accepted the donation of a new AED defibrillator from The Rotary Club. The Rotary, with the assistance of Everett Co-Operative Bank and Cataldo Ambulance Services, Inc. made the...
Everett State Representative Stephen “Stat” Smith has agreed to plead guilty to civil rights violation, after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges of voter fraud against Smith last week. As part of the plea agreement with prosecutors, Smith has already agreed to give up his seat as State Representative, effective January 1, 2013. He...
Leaders of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Local 143, Everett’s firefighters union, last week pointed to a recent finding by the Department of Labor Relations (DLR), that the city admitted that it had acted improperly during negotiations with the union over the past summer, after the city admitted to its actions in a...
The Everett Board of Aldermen will take up a fairly brief agenda next Wednesday, the day after Christmas, but there are a couple of items of note that we wouldn’t want to get lost in the holiday bustle. Here’s a peek at the agenda for Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Medford opposing casino development due...
Superintendent of Everett Public Schools Frederick Foresteire said this week that the district is hoping to move back into the former Devens School at the beginning of February, once renovations of the schools are completed. The Devens Schools had been declared a surplus school building by the city a decade ago, and remained unused...
Another holiday season is here and, as you are reading this, it almost will be over. All of the preparations and plans we’ve made in anticipation of the seasonal events soon will come to fruition and will become just another memory in our photo albums and DVD files. Most of us will mark the...
The Everett High girls hockey team came out on the short end of a 9-3 decision Wednesday evening against Marblehead. Despite the final score, the contest was a close one for most of the game. Marblehead jumped out to a 3-1 advantage at the end of the first period and maintained a two goal...
Etta Davis Of Everett Etta (Dunston) Davis died on December 16. She was the beloved wife of the late Jesse Davis and loving mother of Vanessa Davis and Linda Davis, both of Worcester, Marilyn Watkins of Wilmington, Joseph Davis of Everett and the late James King; sister of Maryland Mobley of New Jersey and...
On Monday, December 17 members of the Everett Fire Department, under the leadership and tutelage of firefighter Stephen Bruce, organized, created and delivered 100 Holiday food baskets for local Everett families. The food baskets, once filled, were available for pickup by the pre-identified families. “We enjoy helping out the community, but especially during this...
