Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and State Senator Sal DiDomenico are shown above during a walk around Everett’s downtown that Warren made with the senator last week. Warren has been campaigning hard against Senator Scott Brown. Warren has already made visits to many cities towns and neighborhoods since announcing her candidacy last summer.
MASS B.A.D.G.E. officers ,family members and volunteers gathered together at Zion Church with toys that were distributed to needy families in the community. Pictured are John Hanlon, Everett Credit Union Board of Director, Michael McLaughlin City Councilor, Raoul Goncalves, President MASS B.A.D.G.E., Adam Ragucci, City Councilor, Bishop Robert G. Brown, Zion Church Ministries, Marcell...
If the city does not make up a structural deficit in public school financing, the School Committee will be forced to layoff 96 teachers and personnel as well as eliminate $1 million from non-personnel items, according to School Committeeman David Ela. Cuts that deep would irreparably harm public school education here and destabilize the...
A former inspector for the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) pleaded guilty last week to extortion charges and received jail time for using his position of authority to extort money from an Everett business under his jurisdiction. Arthur Hitchman, 41, of Melrose, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Jan. 11th, in Middlesex Superior Court to...
Senator Sal DiDomenico submitted written testimony in support of several foreclosure related bills at a hearing held Wednesday before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. These bills, which are aimed at reducing the amount of foreclosures in the Commonwealth, include S. 865, “An Act to establish a foreclosure mediation program,” S. 673, “An Act...
When Lafayette Middle schooler Samantha Rivera takes her place this Saturday alongside more than 250 other eighth graders from across the state, she’ll be doing what come natural to her. Helping others. Rivera will take part in the state’s Second Annual Day of Service this coming Saturday, Jan. 14th, to honor and celebrate the...
Monday’s funeral for Everett’s Jessica Cormier was quiet and dignified and it was extremely well attended. The court proceeding two hours after she was buried, where her assailant Clarence Earl Berry, 59, of Chelsea, was arraigned for stabbing her to death, was mobbed with friends, relatives and many grieving members of Cormier’s distraught family....
A lifelong Everett resident has received France’s highest decoration, one that dates to Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph A. Cataldo was presented with the Legion d’Honneur (Chevalier) for his exemplary service in World War II during a special ceremony on December 21 at the Chelsea Soldiers Home. Cataldo was among the brave American soldiers who landed...
Mayor Carlo DeMaria asked everyone in city government to work together to leave a proper legacy and to achieve a collective goal in remarks delivered at the inauguration of city leaders held Tuesday night. Speaking before a large crowd of family, friends, political supporters and business associates inside the Frederick Foresteire Center for the...
It would be hard to find two better-qualified choices for the posts of School Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman than those selected Tuesday night by the members of the Everett School Committee. That was the judgment of veteran School Committee Member At Large, Lester S. MacLaughlin, on the selection of Robert Carreiro as Chairman...