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Bike path a big boost
Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s willingness to support a Community Development effort to create a bike path for Everett residents is a giant leap forward for residents of this city who feel intimidated by automobile traffic and would like to have a place of their own to ride their bicycles. He is ordering that a bicycle... »
Helping out Somerville during an emergency
Following Saturday’s extraordinary downpour of rain, the city of Somerville’s police and fire station as well as its dispatch and 911 center was literally and physically put out of business. The city of Everett expeditiously offered itself as a temporary safe harbor for the Somerville dispatch and emergency services lines. This is how municipalities help one... »
And speaking of the recent rainstorms
The Saturday downpour that doused Everett and the region caused the heated earth, grass, trees, bushes, streets and structures to be cooled off as well as cleaned-off of dust and soot. It was a wonderful downpour for those reasons. To those of you who got flooded out – we’re sorry. »
A nice idea but a very costly one
The DiMaria Administration recently hired a consulting firm to measure the efficacy and efficiency of combining many – six – public service and safety buildings, including city hall, into one. The ideas was to see if one big complex – the former senior high school building on Broadway – could be made into one big... »
Everyone is away
The 4th of July holiday was a great success. Hundreds of thousands swarmed for music, food and fireworks and virtually no arrests, no outrageous violence and very little in the way of inconvenience. It was a quintessential American weekend with nearly all of us taking full advantage of the Monday holiday. Monday opened warm and very hot. The... »
Thoughts on the coming of July Fourth
It is the summer of discontent as we approach the 4th of July holiday. In the 234th year of American Independence, there is a feeling held among Americans that the business life of the land is unnatural, strained, weak, and ineffectual. Government’s best effort to make up for the failings and the excesses of the nation’s... »
Talking about priorities
If you asked most residents of Marblehead if they’d ever live in Everett they’d reply with a no. Marblehead and Everett are two places essentially different from one another in many, many ways. But when it comes to the kids – the public school kids – Everett comes out on top in the spending department. Last week,... »
Graduates of the Class of 2010
The Everett High School Class of 2010 faces tremendous challenges as the young people set forth in this new chapter in the continuing story of their lives. They are going off to college, into the armed forces or into the workplace. Everything is about challenges for these graduates – and the challenges have never been greater... »
The new football field
The new artificial turf field at Everett Memorial Stadium is nearing completion. And what a moment that will be for this city and for this city’s athletes. When that field is ready and open, it will become a 24/7 possibility for football and soccer players, when before it could barely be used because the turf always... »
Chasing down water Users who don’t pay
For many, many years in this city it was a well known best kept secret that many of the city’s major water users had meters that didn’t record the true level of water use and in some instances, major users by-passed their water meters relying on the city’s inability to read the meters correctly... »
