EPS Receives Grant to Assist with Youth Sports and Activities
The Everett Public Schools’ sports program gained additional help with a grant of $4,000 from the Reebok Foundation and its nonprofit BOKS. Ward 5 School Committee Member Marcony Almeida-Barros helped facilitate the grant after meeting with the leadership of BOKS and connected them to the EPS administration to apply. The grant award provides assistance with physical activities at both the English and Everett High Schools.
The organization leads a free physical activity program designed to get kids active and establish a lifelong commitment to health and fitness. Many kids today need to be more active to avoid the continued prevalence of childhood obesity. Among the myriad issues facing our education system, obesity may not seem like a top issue, but its health implications are undoubtedly impacting students’ ability to learn.
Michael T. Kearney built a legendary career in sports across multiple communities including Revere, Malden, Chelsea, and Everett.
Mr. Kearney, a popular youth coach in Revere sports, most notably as an assistant on Lou Cicatelli’s RHS staff for more than a decade, died on Feb. 25. Mr. Kearney, who had been living in Everett for several years, was 91.
A terrific football player at Malden Catholic High School and Northeastern University, Mr. Kearney above all loved coaching kids.
“We are saddened by this loss to our football program and our community,” said Cicatelli. “Mike was a staunch supporter and a coach for many years. He helped us with the running backs at Revere High School and I know he helped out coaching in other Revere sports as well. Just a nice, nice guy who was as knowledgeable about football as they come and a tremendous person to have around inspiring and being a positive influence for our student-athletes.”
An Everett Teen s Club For Discussing Race Catches On We Get To Celebrate Our Blackness : An Everett Teen s Club For Discussing Race Catches On
Anne Laurie Pierre poses for a portrait in her bedroom in Somerville, Mass. on February 20, 2021.
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An Everett Teen s Club For Discussing Race Catches On
An ambitious student and three-sport athlete, Anne Laurie Pierre has taken full advantage of the many offerings available at Everett High School, but she thought something was missing a space where Black students can talk about being Black.
“A lot of us, when we learn about our history in school, think that our history starts at slavery, but it actually doesn t,” said Pierre, who is chronicling her senior year with GBH News as part of our COVID and the Classroom series. “We have way more history and we have successes and we have oppressions. We have both sides.”
The City of Chelsea lost one of its greatest native sons with the passing of jazz great Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea this past week at the age of 79.
Chick Corea (whose nickname “Chick” derived from the nickname “Cheeky” that an aunt, who would pinch his cheeks, had given to him when he was a youngster) was born and raised in the city, attending the Williams School and Chelsea High School, though he graduated from Everett High in 1959 when his parents bought a house in that city in the middle of his junior year in high school.
Chick Corea’s immense musical talent was nurtured from a very early age by his father, Armando, who himself was a jazz musician, and continued through his years in the Chelsea school system.
The overnight snowstorm, whatever its dimension, will be an expensive one, according to City Manager Jay Ash. The city’s snow removal budget was wiped out in the last storm about two weeks ago and stood at $95,000 spent so far…