After reporting only a three percent increase in the COVID-19 infection rate in the North End two weeks ago the infection rate here has increased nearly seven and half percent. According to the latest data released by the Boston Public…
Author: John Lynds
Licensing Board to Conduct Random Inspections at North End Restaurants
After numerous complaints to the city’s 311 hotline the Boston Licensing Board held a mandatory emergency virtual meeting on ZOOM last week that all North End restaurant owners had to attend or face losing their special outdoor seating permits. Earlier…
City Council Passes Mayor’s Budget, Edwards Breaks Ranks With Uber Progressives
With the ongoing racial tension sweeping across the nation and calls for police reform in almost every major U.S. city there was an emotional debate last week in the City Council over Mayor Martin Walsh proposed budget. Since the killing…
Future of North End’s Columbus Statue Uncertain
When Christopher Columbus Park was dedicated by Mayor Kevin White in the 1970s as one of the earliest waterfront parks in Boston, the true history of Columbus’s atrocities against indegenoius people wasn’t common knowledge. . In schools across the country…
Two North Enders Appointed to Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board of Directors
Two North Enders were recently nominated and appointed to the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the non-profit responsible for the management and care of The Greenway. Both Conor Finley and Kirsten Hoffman of the North End were nominated by State Representative…
COVID-19 Update for North End
After a 31 percent spike in two weeks last month the COVID-19 infection rate in the North End has leveled out with very few new cases. . According to the latest data released by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC)…
Baker Recently Tours MBTA Blue Line Work
Last week Governor Charlie Baker used the Maverick MBTA station as the backdrop to his daily Covid-19 press briefing and to highlight the accelerated infrastructure work on the Blue Line that wrapped up Sunday. Baker was joined by Transportation Secretary…
North End Restaurant Owners Await City Guidance for Reopening
Dozens of restaurants line the North End’s Hanover Street and many are tucked down the neighborhood’s side streets and survive on the bustling foot traffic as tourists descend on Boston in the summer months. As the state released its Phase…
Councilor Lydia Edwards Reacts to George Floyd’s Murder and Protests
When District 1 City Councilor Lydia Edwards first viewed the cellphone footage of a Minappolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until he died she had to stop the video several times. “I had to stop it several times, 
COVID-19 Update for North End
As the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline in the city and state, the infection rate in the North End spiked nearly 31 percent in the past two weeks. On Friday the BPHC released its weekly…