City Councilor Anthony DiPierro has been formally endorsed by The Everett Police Superior Officers Association (NEPBA Local 95) for his re-election as Everett’s Ward Three City Councilor. The elected board representing all Supervisors within the Everett Police Department unanimously voted…
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Middlesex County Restoration Center Secures $1 Million in State Funding
The Middlesex County Restoration Center Commission today announced it has secured $1 million to fund the fourth year of a four-year pilot program designed to study and establish a restoration center in Middlesex County. The center would help support ongoing…
Annual Everett Art Walk Now Open
The third annual Everett Community Art Walk is officially open. This temporary art exhibit will be on display throughout various city locations through November 6th. Visitors are invited to participate in a city-wide month-long art scavenger hunt to explore the…
News In Brief
DeMaria to Host Second Hale Park and Central Ave Park Community Meeting Mayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce that he will be hosting a second community meeting at Hale Park on Glendale Street on Tuesday, October 12 at 6pm…
DiDomenico and Senate Colleagues Pass Student Nutritional Legislation
Senator Sal DiDomenico and his colleagues in the Massachusetts Senate recently voted to pass Senate Bill 298, An Act to promote student nutrition, which would ensure that more children in Massachusetts have access to nutritious school meals. This legislation would require…
Developer Selected for Chelsea Soldiers’ Home Domiciliary Project
The Baker Polito Administration announced the designation of Pennrose, LLC., as the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea domiciliary campus redevelopment partner. This designation follows a competitive bid process that included request for proposals (RFP) and an extensive developer selection process involving…
Progressives Are Trump’s New Best Friends
As our regular readers know, we have been fully supportive of everything that entails the Progressive agenda in Washington, from the Green New Deal to tax increases on the wealthy and everything in between. If anything, we’d like to see…
School Masking Is Not a Parental Matter
According to an interview in the Boston Globe, a member (who is a medical doctor) of the unpaid COVID-19 advisory panel to Gov. Charlie Baker made this statement regarding masking by children in public schools: “Regardless of science, and there…
Sober October: Now More Than Ever
We all know that the pandemic has not been great for either our physical or mental health. One of the strongest indicators of this is that overall alcohol consumption increased by 14 percent among Americans in 2020 and 23 percent…
Guest Op-Ed: Vision and Experience Bringing Positive Change to Everett
By Mayor Carlo DeMaria There is growing excitement in Everett about all the positive changes that we will be able to realize with new, clean development in critical business areas in our City. The changes are the result of the…