East-Boston News

"The life of the artist is seeing possibility where other people don't," says Madeleine Steczynski, an East Boston artist and activist.

An East Boston man was hospitalized yesterday after being shot on Christmas Eve as he left a holiday party in Chelsea, police said.

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Boston Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a large blue bag in East Boston Wednesday night.

At about 7:20pm, on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, officers from Area A-7 responded to a radio call to investigate a premise in the area of 89 Princeton Street in East Boston.

John Forbes could face 25 years in jail. It was a sparkling Saturday in August, and John M. Forbes pushed his Two Guys Slush cart into Piers Park, hawking watermelon ice to the children gathered for Eastie Pride Day.

John M. Forbes - a neighborhood liaison taped by the DEA inside his City Hall office discussing an OxyContin deal with a federal mole and offering the man a city job - has been deemed by the feds a "close associate" of Anthony W. Cristallo, 40, a convicted murderer from East Boston.

New allegations arose Monday against a Boston city employee accused of selling drugs.

The Globe's Farah Stockman offers readers a remarkable profile of Gene Sharp , the 81-year-old author who lives in an unassuming townhouse in East Boston -- and has helped shape non-violent protests against tyrannical regimes around the world.

District A-7 reports a man getting into his car at 294 Bremen St. managed to escape with only a bullet in his back seat when two guys tried to stick him up.

The feds haven't subpoenaed any city property used by John M. Forbes - Mayor Thomas M. Menino 's East Boston liaison - but city attorneys have secured his computer and other resources, a City Hall source said.

John M. Forbes, Thomas Menino's 31-year-old liaison to East Boston, was arrested this morning on charges that he was dealing dope in his neighborhood.

Ita s arguably the biggest news to hit this little corner of Boston in decades. It was announced last week that President Barack Obama has chosen the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center as the recipient of $12 million in stimulus money to build a brand new, state-of-the-art facility in Maverick Square.

As we gather with friends and family during the holiday season, we are reminded of how fortunate we are.

Share + Dec 17, 2009 3:56 pm US/Eastern A Boston City Hall employee faces decades in prison and over $1,000,000 in fines after being chargedA with distributing Oxycontin and marijuana, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

East Boston's Neighborhood of Affordable Housing , which has a significant presence in Chelsea, is getting set for its 22nd Annual Dinner Meeting and Holiday Party just as Governor Deval Patrick signs a new law to secure long-term affordable housing preservation efforts.

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Share + Comments Dec 10, 2009 12:17 pm US/Eastern Reporting Sera Congi MATTAPAN Community health centers across Massachusetts are getting a major boost from the federal government.

For the first time in three years, taxes for single-family homes in Boston are set to rise as the city tries to make up for declining property values, officials said today.

Boston Police are looking for a 14-year-old autistic boy who was last seen Tuesday going to an after-school program in Central Square in East Boston.