Martignetti a Baseball Giant Volunteers make the North End Athletic Association click. They are the heart and soul of the non-profit community organization that has been providing programs for North End residents for over 50 years. One of those volunteers,…
Category: Editorials
The 2012 Fourth of July
This year’s Esplanade Fourth of July celebration will likely be one of the largest in recent years. The combination of great music and fireworks, hundreds of thousands of people joining together and entertainment beyond compare – and all of this…
A Time to Punish and a Time to Forgive
Recent news that the North End’s Sal DiMasi has been diagnosed by prison doctors with stage four cancer is sobering and depressing at the same time. It is more depressing than sobering. It makes the tragedy and the reality of…
More Police or Not?
There seems to be a split decision among those in the neighborhood who attended the monthly Public Safety meeting with Boston Police Captain Thomas Lee about whether or not more police presence is needed in the North End. Major crime…
Crime Watch or Not?
There is a bit of interest in the neighborhood being expressed by North End residents for a Neighborhood Watch. In the first instance, such an organization gives those who want to participate the opportunity to work with neighbors and the…
The Celtics
For Celtic’s fans, Sunday night’s victory over the Heat and LeBron James was a win to savor. Now its back to Miami where the Celtics face a very big challenge. Nearly everyone counted them out when they were down 2-0…
Miracle of Miracles
The expanded K-8 Eliot School announced two weeks ago by the School Department and pushed for by Mayor Thomas Menino and the Eliot School Family Council comes as great news to this neighborhood. The Eliot School, under the direction of…
The Summer of 2012
It is impossible to know what awaits us at the beginning of another summer of our lives. With Memorial Day past us, the mystery of the coming summer is upon us in full force. The death last week of Robin…
The Weekend in Review
The crowds were bigger. The lines were longer. The parking was more difficult but the feeling all in all in the North End was that this is a neighborhood to relish and to enjoy, with everyone mixing together, with virtually…
NEWRA Flirts with Relevancy Following Shaky Meetings
Last week’s often contentious North End Waterfront Residents’ Association meeting devolved from something supposed to be mirroring a fair and organized forum into something unfair, disorganized and so blatantly personalized by some of the parties present there, that NEWRA officials…