East-Boston News

The three-year battle between Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the city's firefighters took a dramatic turn today when union firefighters took up positions inside neighborhood firehouses in defiance of City Hall's insistence that their presence there was illegal.

"It's the people's firehouse. We are volunteering to staff these firehouses to make sure the public gets the protection it deserves," said Boston firefighters union President Ed Kelly, who used a department radio this morning to report that "Volunteer Engine 20 is in service." The Fire Department "browned out" three fire companies this morning: ...

C armen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio may be walking the plank today, but both he and his prospective in-laws insist he won't be walking down the aisle anytime soon.

Imam Abdullah Faaruuq and Charles Jacobs argued over the merits of the new mosque in Roxbury after supporters of the mosque presented Jacobs and other protesters with white roses in a gesture of peace.

The federal government accepted Suffolk University into a new program yesterday that would cover the entire bill for enrolled veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Scouting out great cheap restaurants takes me down some strange byways, but I almost never make it to Boston's waterfront.

"When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore!" The late Dean Martin is unavailable to croon for the reception band, but reputed Boston Mafia godfather Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio has been shot by Cupid's arrow and is engaged to be married, the Herald has learned.

Four months ago, Boston EMT Philip Kennard worked frantically in an auditorium at the East Boston Central Catholic School to revive a 6-year-old girl whose heart had stopped during a gym class.

Barbara Ferrer: Boston public-health director. The city Public Health Commission is attempting to convince local businesses to not penalize workers who stay home for seven days either because they have the flu or they have to care for kids with it.

In a landmark property deal that wowed members of the Eastie community this week, Gold's Gym personal trainer Anthony "Skinny Six-Pack" DiBennedetto bought a Maverick Square parking spot for $30 cash - the lowest amount ever paid for a space anywhere in Boston.

The city of Boston expects to lay off more than 550 people at the end of June. Three hundred and sixty-four people in the schools, including 200 teachers, are expected to lose their jobs two weeks from Tuesday, and another 191 people in the public libraries, the police department and at the city's printing office are expected to be laid off as ...

Jimbo says it's not so much the continual typos that get him so much as the near complete lack of any actual reporting in the East Boston Times: ... On the back page is what we've come to expect from the Times: eight static photos of Chamber of Commerce members.

Chris Kulikoski, running against incumbent Sal LaMattina in district 1 says he would work to eliminate Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day as paid city holidays: Boston has a proud history and Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day are certainly part of that history.

Boston Police report arresting a Malden man in East Boston yesterday on charges he bit an officer attempting to arrest him after an alleged drug transaction.

Another Bay State school has been forced to close because of unusually high numbers of absences attributed to a flu-like illness.

Superintendent Carol R. Johnson announced today that the William Blackstone Elementary School in the South End will be closed for seven calendar days because of concerns about influenza.

The economic emergency has claimed another victim. East Boston has been forced to say "ciao for now" to its Italian festival, which has been going on for 14 years.

In a letter sent home with students, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson said Otis Elementary School will close for seven days because of "unusually high levels of influenza-like illness in recent days." "When you have almost half the school out, you have to do something," said Lucia Granado, whose 8-year-old son Alexander was one of ...

The state department of Public Health confirms another 61 cases of swine flu in Massachusetts.

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