Special to the Times-Free Press Boston City Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata is hosting a series of Budget Town Halls across District One to engage directly with residents and gather input on budget ...

As our community moves toward the election of its next State Representative, we are fortunate to be presented with several talented and worthy candidates. One individual, however, has earned my ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

East Boston High School Basketball court named after Michael Rubin Story and photos by Bob Marra After graduating from Tufts University in 1978, Michael Rubin planned to go to law school. But first, ...

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 ...

In the small press room in the old Logan Airport Tower, a group of employees gathered last Wednesday for a special event. Sixteen Massport workers from East Boston and surrounding communities working ...

Anyone who knows John White knows he’d rather be out of the spotlight and busy doing his good work on behalf of the East Boston families he’s dedicated his life and career to. In October, Mr. White, ...

The American Red Cross will join community leaders to mark the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings and to pay tribute to the strength and resilience shown by so many with a blood drive ...