Italian market slated to open in downtown Waterville
by Amy Calder A passion for Italian food a love of downtown are the impetus for Holy Cannoli owners Candace and Tom Savinelli and Mayor Nick Isgro to combine their culinary expertise and open a high-end Italian market on Main Street. The market is expected to open in December in the former Barrels Community Market space next to...
Cranston's Taco Announces Strategic Partnership with Italian Manufacturer
By Mark Schieldrop Cranston's Taco HVAC has entered into a strategic partnering agreemwith with Italian-based Askoll, a manufacturer of pumps used in a variety of industries. The two companies will collaborate on research and development for new circulator pump designs, the company said in a release. The deal will help Taco i...
Laura Indolfi Wins MIT Descience Fashion Competition
MIT's Media Lab put up a one-of-a-kind fashion show in October. The runway competition Descience Fashion Show combined the creativity of designers with the vision of molecular biologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, climatologists and scientists from a variety of disciplines. This year saw two Italians among the finalists. Italian bioma...
For the Love of Figs
by Gina Fava "How many figs do you have on your tree?" This is all I hear during harvest season in my family. Over the past few years, my husband, Jamie, and my father, and my brother, Tony, each acquired fig trees for their yards. Since the first year of cultivating them, these men relentlessly compete over quantity. Among their...
Obituary: Filomena (Gesualdi) Zelano, Longtime Communicant of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church
Obituary from Campbell Funeral Home. Filomena (Gesualdi) Zelano, 89, beloved wife of the late Luigi Zelano, died Monday, March 9, 2015 at Beverly Hospital. Born in Panni Foggia, Italy, she was the daughter of the late Carlo and Maria (Calitri) Gesualdi. She was raised in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1960, settling in Beverl...
Boston’s Towering Presence: Developer Don Chiofaro
by Nicola Orichuia "But what if you could?" Sitting in their Belmont home, Don Chiofaro and his wife, Diane, considered her question as they contemplated his notes for a 1.8 million square foot development project that would one day become International Place. It was 1981, and the challenge was bigger and more audacious than...
Infortuni Occupazionali e Ritorno al Lavoro: un Confronto tra l'Esperienza USA e quella Italiana
Monday, November 17 | 7:30 - 9:30 pm | MIT - Center for International Studies Building E40-496 (Muckley Building) 4th floor 1 Amherst Street, CambridgeInfortuni Occupazionali e Ritorno al Lavoro: un Confronto tra l'Esperienza USA e quella Italiana Monica Galizzi e' specializata in economia del lavoro ed ha partecipazioni nei settori della...
Meriano's Cannoli Truck: A Family's Sweet Mission
By Leeanne Griffin Andrea Meriano knew precisely how she wanted her Cannoli Food Truck to look, even borrowing her niece's crayons to sketch the exact design with hot pink and leopard-print trim. The truck's color scheme would also be reflected at her family's brick-and-mortar bakery, which was moving from Guilford to Madison. But...
Weekly Story: He Discovered Money
“ONLY a few months ago he was a dishwasher. A man untaught in finance shows Wall Street and the greatest financiers in the world that they are pikers. Whether Ponzi’s bubble bursts or not, the American people will have to take off their hats to a man as clever as he is.” So the Rochester Times-Union sums up a good deal of the nation-wide e...
Italian company plans to invest $6 million in Lewiston plant
The Italian owners of a Lewiston facility that makes high-tech storage, picking and distribution systems plan to invest $6 million in the plant, which could lead to dozens of new jobs. A spokesman for Modula, owner of the System Logistics plant, said the investment signals a long-term commitment to the area and comes as the company has seen a...
Il Décor Brings Cattelan Italia to Boston
This summer, the downtown furniture boutique Il Décor introduces original designs from the noted Italian manufacturer Cattelan Italia. Il Décor is thrilled to bring this elegant and affordable collection to Boston. These original designs capture the simplicity of domestic life without sacrificing grace or quality. Cattelan Italia's skilled craftsma...
Temporary Job Posting at Consulate General of Italy in Boston
E' indetta una procedura di selezione - che si svolgerà attraverso un colloquio - per l'assunzione di un impiegato a contratto temporaneo da adibire ai servizi di Assistente amministrativo nel settore consolare per la durata di sei mesi. Possono partecipare alla selezione i candidati con i seguenti requisiti:1. abbiano, alla data del prese...