[email protected] Twenty-five businesspeople and a sprinkling of politicians joined mayoral candidate Dan Rizzo at a noontime lunch Tuesday afternoon for a discussion about the future development of Broadway. During brief remarks before introducing Rizzo to the business group, local developer…
Month: June 2011
Sick Time: Long-standing Employee Benefit has Cost the City Thousands of Dollars over the Past Decade
For the past decade, the one common denominator from year to year within City government has been budgets that are consistently short. Every year, it seems the state hits the City financially in one way or another, leading to cuts…
Boulevard Family Settles Suit with City, State in Overzealous Home Search
The City and State Police have recently settled a federal Civil Rights case with a family from Revere Beach Boulevard that came as a result of what appears to be an overzealous home search during the initial investigation following the…
Dozens of RHS Students Alleged to have Cheated on Physics Test
Some 60 Revere High School (RHS) students have been caught up in an exam scam that was perpetrated through text messages – the first large cheating controversy at RHS in quite some time. Some 320 total students took the compromised…
Go for it: When it Comes to Wonderland, here’s Top Hoping the Developer Thinkss Big
The new parking garage going up at Wonderland is what it took to save an entire mixed use development of gargantuan potential. The Eurovest Company has emerged intact from the national recession. Eurovest is the local company developing the Ocean…
Police Briefs 06-29-2011
MONDAY, JUNE 20 Franklin Echevarria, 24, listed as homeless, was arrested on outstanding warrants. Charles J. Munzing, 58, of Saugus, was arrested on outstanding warrants. TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Brian B. Gahagan, 45, of 524 Park Ave., was arrested on an…
Obituaries 06-29-2011
Agnes Murphy Office Manager for DiStasio Dental Associates of Revere Agnes M. (Dillon) Murphy, formerly of Revere, died on June 24 at the Colonial Poplin Nursing Home in Fremont, NH. She was in her 90th year. Born in Chelsea, she…
Five Minus One: Bonura Drops Out
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] The crowded Ward 5 race has thinned out a little this week as challenger Joanne Bonura backed out of the race on Tuesday despite collecting her signatures and taking out her papers. Bonura – who lives…
Carrying On:Revere-Winthrop Pediatrics continues track record of excellent Care
–By Seth Daniel [email protected] Revere-Winthrop Pediatrics at 280 Beach St. has been in practice for more than three and despite a minor name change, it’s still practicing the same thing – excellent care for kids. Dr. Janet Chua has assumed…
Tensions on the Beach Rise as Business Booms
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] The Revere License Commission delivered a stern warning to Antonia’s on the Beach last week, but steered clear of issuing any discipline for what neighbors say is repeatedly loud music that disrupts their lives. For years,…
E-mails Sent to the State, City Council Discusses Issue
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] Mayor Tom Ambrosino and City Solicitor Paul Capizzi indicated that Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) has requested information regarding the use of city computers for political purposes and will be requesting more information in…
Global Planning?
By Seth Daniel [email protected] The Chelsea Creek waterfront in Revere is a forgotten entity for most in the City, but it has garnered some attention lately as one of the long-time oil companies on the Creek has presented a bold…
Police Briefs 06-22-2011
TUESDAY, JUNE 14 Kevin M. Boyce, 44, of 53 Reservoir Ave., was arrested on charges of illegal possession of a Class D controlled narcotic substance with intent to distribute and violating the drug free school zone laws. Helen Espinoza, 24,…
Celebrate Good Times: City has Responded to Challenges
During the past ten years, the city of Revere has had a tremendous influx of new residents coming into the city. The population went up by over 5,000. These new residents have placed pressure on police, fire, educational and public…
Summer Arrives: Things are happening all around us
What is better than the summer arriving in a beach city like ours? We wait for it all winter. We wonder about it and what it will be like – and then it comes, and passes, just like that. Like…
Weathers Named Offensive MVP of Annual Shriners Football Classic
RHS product leads North to victory By Cary Shuman [email protected] Trae Weathers may have his Revere High School diploma in hand, but he’s still representing the football program in glorious fashion. Weathers, an All-Scholastic player in the 2011 season, was…
Obituaries 06-22-2011
Rose DeYeso Lifelong Revere resident Rose M. (Moscaritolo) DeYeso, a lifelong resident of Revere, died at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on June 20 following a brief illness. She was 97 years old. Born, raised and educated in Revere,…
Graphic Boomer Tell All Memoir – The Evening News with Walter Cronkite
The Evening News with Walter Cronkite evokes a time, the years 1967-1971, and the shift in ideals and experience through the closely observed eyes of Jack Krivitsky. He goes off to college in 1967 straddling two worlds: the upper middle…
Lord Stanley, Meet Captain Chara
One of our photographers grabbed this historic shot Thursday morning of Boston Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara exiting the charter plane at Logan Airport while hoisting the Stanley Cup into the air. A small group of fans were there to cheer…
Officials Keep a Close Watch on Global Project But much is Still to be Learned about plan
By Seth Daniel [email protected] Federal railroad officials are keeping a close eye on Global Oil’s proposal to bring Ethanol trains to its Revere terminal on Chelsea Creek, but they also said they still don’t know much about the details. “We…
