Leader Herald Staff
If you are an Everett or surrounding area resident with a young athlete who has a penchant for baseball, or an aspiring athlete that wants to learn a new sport, the Everett Rec Center and Everett Little League are offering preseason clinics beginning this month.
Continue reading “Baseball in winter at Everett Rec Center”There’s an article in the 1/10/2024 Everett Independent about blah blah ‘new high school.’ I didn’t read it. “Building Momentum for a New High School” was enough to make me vomit.
Why is this getting so much ink? Why has this taken over from the issue of overcrowding in both the high school and 4 K-8 schools? That problem didn’t magically get solved, and now we can move on to the next one. Anyone who thinks – no need to name names – the overcrowding issue can wait ten years is an idiot.
Anyone who lets themselves be diverted from the overcrowding issue by talk of a new high school (blah, blah ‘old h.s. building can be used as a middle school’ – ya, TEN YEARS from now) is morally bankrupt and ethically challenged. YOU go ahead an abandon students for an additional ten years (on top of the four that are already past), I don’t have the stomach for that. Plus I actually LIKE children.
Why aren’t we talking about rehabbing Pope John? Even talk of modules has ceased with, you should note, no pictures of what the mayor described basically as ‘not tin cans. They’re nice.’ never mind any numbers for just the purchase of the tin cans much less an estimate of the whole project.
Continue reading “Where did the overcrowding go?”Crimson Tide boys basketball snapped a four-game win streak with a 47-46 loss to Arlington High School in the opening day of the Malden Catholic Holiday Tournament that took place over winter break. First-year head coach Gerard Boyce said his team gave Arlington a ‘Christmas gift’ but overall he believes the the Crimson Tide played tough in the annual holiday exhibition. The tournament run for the Tide included a year-closing 62-38 win over Arlington Catholic. The Tide are 5-1 on the season with a matchup scheduled for Wednesday, January 3rd (7PM) at Cambridge Rindge & Latin (4-1).
The Lady Tide were dealt a 57-37 home loss to visiting Acton-Boxborough High School over winter break. They will pick things up in the new year with a Thursday, January 4th (7PM) trip to Revere High School for the crosstown rival game against the Patriots.
If you watched the final play of the thrilling Rose Bowl Game between Alabama and Michigan, you might have noticed a familiar young guy on your screen.
That young talent in the backfield was Everett High alumni Mike Sainristil, who has continued his storied college football career by helping the Wolverines get to the biggest game of the year with the 27-20 win over Alabama.
Sainristil, who is a senior playing in the defensive secondary, finished with 4 tackles including two for a loss.
The win gives Michigan (14-0) its best record in school history.
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There is always a great deal of wonder and discussion about the New Year and what it will bring.
Many of us also make resolutions for the New Year.
There are also those who just want the holidays to pass by and to be done with, who find a great measure of relief when all is said and done with Christmas and New Years.
On New Year’s Eve afternoon until midnight in Times Square, most television stations broad- cast live fireworks displays from China, India, Thailand, New Zealand, Quatar, Australia, Singapore, London, Paris, Madrid and on and on.
By the time midnight came along for the ball to drop in Times Square, many of us had been worn out by all the fireworks displays.
Some folks we speak with are happy the holidays are finally over.
Others wish they’d never end.
Tuesday was back to normal here in Everett.
Normal is better, we think.
Continue reading “Around the city…”Leader Herald Staff
What does 2024 hold for the mayor and for the administration at city hall?
Much of the same that has come before with some minor changes here and there.
What does 2024 hold for the mayor and for the administration at city hall?
Much of the same that has come before with some minor changes here and there.
There will be no revolution.
The mayor is in control.
He has been in control for two decades and it seems unlikely at this point that anything is about to change the situation. The mayor calls all the shots. He is largely unchallenged by the city government.
Only the rising tide of public speakers allegedly causes him to be annoyed.
The public speakers, who decry just about whatever the mayor does, are not going away anytime soon.
In fact, their numbers are growing and their impact has grown.
Three or four years ago, there were no public speakers making weekly dissertations to the city council and to the school committee at the beginning of every meeting.
When the public speakers show up, a pretty good crowd of Everett residents and supporters show up in the gallery with them. ECTV no longer shows the gallery in their broadcasts. But the raucous cheering and speaking in opposition to being told not to speak by public officials is noted by the viewing public. Many meetings dissipate into shouting matches with pub- lic speakers begging the city government to respond and the city government waiting for the public speaking to end without commenting or seeming to care.
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