The Revere Democratic City Committee met and endorsed for U.S. Senate, MA 16th Suffolk House Seat, and Suffolk Register of Probate primary races Roughly thirty members of the 39-member Revere Democratic City Committee met on August 12 to weigh in…
Month: August 2020
Philip Russo Announces Candidacy for 16th Suffolk District State Rep.
Philip Russo has announced his candidacy for the State Representative race. The following is his statement: My name is Philip Russo and I am writing to let you know I am running for the 16th District State Representative Office. Due…
Northeast Metro Tech Announces Fall Reopening Plan
Superintendent David DiBarri announces that students will follow a hybrid teaching model this fall for the start of the 2020-21 school year. The reopening plans combines recommendations and guidelines from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for all…
Older Adults Need to Take Caution With Prolonged Sun Exposure
During these warm summer days, we enjoy being outside more than ever. However, those of us who are sun worshipers put ourselves at risk long before there was much talk about the connection between sun exposure and skin cancer. For…
Northeast Metro Seeking Cooperative Education Opportunities for Students
Superintendent David DiBarri reports that Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School is currently seeking cooperative education employment opportunities for students. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has released initial guidance for career and technical education schools for reopening…
In Final Stretch to Primary, Markey Campaign Sees Tsunami of Grassroots Contributions
With two weeks to go before the final day to vote in the primary, the Ed Markey for U.S. Senate campaign is reporting $1.84 million in donations in the period from July 1 to Monday. The campaign received 38,697 individual…
MassDOT Develops New Mobility Dashboard to Monitor Impact of COVID-19
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing the release of the new MassDOT Mobility Dashboard. This dashboard is another resource for members of the public to visualize, analyze, and monitor data collected by MassDOT to better understand the effects of…
RMV Announces 2020 Low Plate Lottery
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has announced that applications for the 2020 Low Number Plate Lottery are now being accepted online at Mass.Gov/RMV using the Online Service Center. Applicants must apply by September 6 and, if selected for a low number…
RBC Recognizes Seaview Towers
The Revere Beautification Committee (RBC) has presented its “Beautiful Home†award to the Seaview Towers condominium located on the Boulevard. This is the first time that this award has gone to a condominium building. The building owners must be very…
Petrillo Receives Beautiful Home Award
The Revere Beautification Committee (RBC) has presented its “Beautiful Home†award to Antoinetta Petrillo of Venditto Road. To begin to describe the landscaping of this property is very difficult as one does not know where to begin. So I will…
‘Putting’ Artistic Expression into the MBTA Fence on Ocean
One by one, neighborhood by neighborhood, Strategic Planning and Community Development Project Manager Elle Baker and Mayor Brian Arrigo are making Revere more beautiful. One week after collaborating with Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKenna on plans to build a community…
Remote Learning Day Camp (RLDC) Launches at Revere Karate Academy
The Revere Karate Academy will be helping the community by providing a remote learning camp for those parents who need to work. There will be a place for parents to bring their children, where they can complete their remote learning…
BHCC Receives $250,000 Grant from JPMorgan Chase
With a generous $250,000 investment from JPMorgan Chase, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) launched the Career Pathways Impact Project (CPIP) this past year. CPIP seeks to equip traditionally underserved students with the tangible skills required to navigate the labor market,…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will fail. Trump’s…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…
Guest Op-Ed: A commitment to Transparency
By Joe Gravellese, Candidate for State Representative My campaign was recently endorsed by Act on Massachusetts – an organization dedicated to increasing transparency in our historically secretive state government. They endorsed me in part because I am one of dozens…
Guest Op-Ed: Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins Statement on Bail and the Bail Fund
By DA Rachael Rollins (The following statement is in regard to the release of a convicted sex offender and rapist in Dorchester through the efforts of the Massachusetts Bail Fund in July. The DA’s office has brought charges against the…
Guest Op-Ed: School Reopening Plans
By Thomas Scott and Robert N. Baldwin, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) Across the Commonwealth, school districts are beginning to announce their plans for the start of the 2020-2021 school year. Some communities are choosing not to reopen school…
Letters to the Editor
Supports Ed Markey Dear Editor, As we get closer to Massachusetts’s Democratic Senate primary, we must consider what is on the line for Revere. The last few, trying months, our country and community have gone through make one fact clear:…
Star and Sun: Catherine Elam Completes Successful Cheering Career at Coastal Carolina
Sport fans know that Division 1 is the highest level in NCAA competition. Revere can lay claim to one of those exceptional athletes who reached the top echelon in her sport. Catherine Elam, who began cheerleading in the Revere Pop…
