East Boston Times-Free Press

The 146th commencement took place at Sartori Stadium on Friday morning, June 12. The graduates, boys in blue and girls in yellow lined up adjacent to the stadium and filed in to take their seats on the aluminum bleachers facing a staging area set up for the happy occasion. Welcoming all and serving as Master of Ceremonies was EB High graduate Dave Arinella. This year,...

By Marianne Salza

East Boston Central Catholic School (EBCCS) held its Eighth Grade Graduation Mass and Exercise on June 6, at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, with main celebrant, Father Tom Domurat, who has known some students from as early as birth and since they entered EBCCS as angels. The pastor compared the joyfulness of graduations to Chinese food: sweet i...

ZUMIX has been selected as one of 150 nonprofits to receive funding through Cummings Foundation’s annual grant program, which awarded $35 million this year. Chosen through a competitive review process that drew a record 959 applicants, the East Boston-based organization will receive a total of $240,000 over three years to support its award-winning creative youth devel...

Former state representative Carlo Basile and his older brothers, Alex, Anthony, and Paul, will hold a rededication ceremony Saturday for the newly renovated observatory at the Madonna of the Universe Shrine that will honor the memory of their mother, Teresa Basile, who passed away on March 26, 2026.

Mrs. Basile immigrated from Italy to the United States of ...

Juneteenth, which has been a national holiday since 2021, marks the day when the Union Army entered the city of Galveston on June 19, 1865, and formally freed those who still were being enslaved in Texas.

As the Union Army advanced through the South in the final months of the Civil War, Confederate slave-owners in states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, and ...