Last week the state Senate approved a nearly $50 billion budget with Senator Lydia Edwards able to earmark $160,000 for Revere-based programs and initiatives as well as another $1 million for a regional ferry. Edwards’ $1 million amendment, by far…
Author: John Lynds
School Committee Votes No on School Choice
Each year around this time the Revere School Committee is required by Massachusetts Law to hold a public hearing to discuss and vote in favor or against the enrollment of non-Revere resident students into Revere Public Schools. Some cities in…
Personnel Subcommittee Meeting Discusses Funding New Positions
At last week’s Revere School Committee Personnel Subcommittee meeting Revere Public School Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly presented the committee with a list of suggested positions that Revere Public Schools hoped to fill as part of the new budget. At the…
Revere High School Picks Freshman Abigail McHugh As New Poet Laureate
Revere High School freshman Abigail McHugh has been writing poetry since she was 11 as a way of expressing her feelings. Now 15-years-old and with several years of writing poetry under her belt Abby, as she’s known at RHS, heard…
Traffic Impact: Summer Tunnel Weekend Closures To Start Next Month
Work to completely overhaul the decaying Sumner Tunnel will begin next month with weekend closures scheduled to begin on June 10 and last for 36 weeks. The work in the tunnel will culminate with a full closure of the Sumner…
MSBA Votes to Send New RHS Into the Schematic Design Phase
Three months after the School Committee, the School Building Committee and the Revere City Council voted to recommend the former Wonderland Dogtrack as the preferred site for a new Revere High School (RHS), the project has hit another benchmark. At…
RHS Holds Focus Groups for New RHS Principal and Vice Principal
Led in part by the Revere Public School Committee’s Student Representative Elni De Jesus, Revere High School held several focus groups with staff, parents and students at the end of March to find out what they are looking for in…
Suspect in Revere Police Shooting Arraigned on Several Charges Monday
The man who shot at Revere Police officers Friday, forcing them to return fire and hit the man in the foot, was arraigned Monday in Chelsea District Court on several charges. District Attorney Kevin Harden announced Daniel Cote, 32, of…
Happy Valley Set to Celebrate 4/20
There are a few dates in the world of cannabis culture and among cannabis consumers that are often celebrated. At adult use cannabis dispensaries Green Wednesday has emerged as the cannabis world’s answer to Black Friday. Christmas Eve is another…
MBTA Reschedules Blue Line Project, Ferry Service Added to Mitigate Service Disruption
The MBTA’s Blue Line project that was originally scheduled to start back on April 2 and continue through this Thursday has been rescheduled and will begin at the end of this month. The Blue Line will now close between Airport…
Suffolk Downs Announces Reopening Of the Track for 2022 Season
After a successful 2021 that saw the historic Suffolk Downs racing oval serving as an interim open space for walking, running and exercising as well as programming for residents and visitors of Eastie and Revere, HYM Investment Group, LLC has…
Program at RHS Getting Seniors Ready for Careers in Education
Revere Public Schools recently launched a district-wide initiative for recruiting more teachers of color in order to diversify the staff and make the schools across Revere more reflective of the city and its population. What RPS administrators found was there…
Sen. Edwards Uses Crown Act to Deliver Powerful Maiden Speech
Last week the Masschausetts Senate unanimously passed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act. The bill prohibits discrimination, which largely impacts Black residents, based on natural and protective hairstyles in places of work and school-related…
Dese to Conduct English Learner Education Review of Revere Public Schools
Next week the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE’s) Office of Language Acquisition will conduct a Tiered Focused Monitoring Review of Revere Public School’s (RPS) ELE (English Lerner Education) program. According to RPS Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly the Office…
TD Bank Opens Branch in East Boston
Last Tuesday, TD Bank officially cut the ribbon on a new branch in Maverick Square next door to La Sultana Bakery. The full service branch will provide another banking option for Eastie residents and customers from the surrounding area. However,…
MBTA Cancels Upcoming Blue Line Disruption
At a community meeting last month the MBTA’s Adam Kamoune announced the T would be closing down the Blue Line for nearly two weeks between Airport and Government Center from Saturday, April 2 to Thursday, April 14 for harbor tunnel…
Women’s History Month: Celebrating With Profiles on Local Women: State Sen. Lydia Edwards
She became the first woman of color to be elected to the District 1 City Council seat when she won in 2017 and recently became the first woman elected to the First Suffolk & Middlesex State Senate seat, a seat…
RHS’s Female Empowerment Movement Targets School Dress Code
In her monthly Revere School Committee report, the committee’s student representative Elni De Jesus said Revere High School’s Female Empowerment Movement (FEM) goal this month was to create a new RHS dress code that better represents the student community. De…
Suffolk Downs Updates Community on Plans to Be an Outdoor Entertainment Venue Through 2025
At a recent community meeting HYM’s Andrew Townsend gave the community a bit more information on HYM’s plans for turning a portion of Suffolk Downs into an outdoor entertainment venue through 2025. With construction set to begin on the Beachmont…
Sen. Edwards Kicks off Re-Election Campaign for 3rd Suffolk Seat
“I swear I’m not a serial candidate,†Senator Lydia Edwards joked Monday night at her campaign kickoff for the 3rd Suffolk State Senate seat. Edwards, who won the special election for the vacant state senate seat back in January, needs…
