Author: Journal Staff
News Briefs
AG Healey Advises Public About 2022 Minimum Wage Increase Attorney General Maura Healey is reminding employees and employers that the state’s minimum wage increased to $14.25 per hour beginning Jan. 1. The AG’s Office has also made available its wage and…
Public Servant of the Month: Cathy Bowden Is January’s Public Servant of the Month
Special to the Journal Mayor Brian Arrigo announced Cathy Bowden as January’s Public Servant of the Month. Cathy has worked in the City of Revere for more than 30 years –today, she works as the City’s Treasurer/Collector. Cathy was chosen…
Local Student Earns Academic Honors
Soni Graduates from University of the Cumberlands University of the Cumberlands is proud to congratulate Monica Soni of Revere on completing their Master of Science in Information Technology. The university wishes Monica all the best in their future endeavors. Well…
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Release of the 2021 Ocean Management Plan
The Baker-Polito Administration announced the release of the final 2021 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan. Authorized by the Oceans Act of 2008, the ocean plan protects critical marine habitat and important water-dependent uses, and sets standards for ocean-based development. Under the…
Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Reconciliation Report Released
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts today released a report from KPMG, LLP summarizing the findings of a reconciliation project that examined the finances of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development commissioned KPMG to…
Wellness, Not Weight Loss: Advice for Starting the New Year off Right
Special to the Journal For many of us, New Year’s resolutions like quitting smoking, getting organized or losing weight are sweeping lifestyle changes, which often fail after a few days or weeks. At the Center for Weight Management and Wellness…
Police Activities League Hosts Holiday Hoops Tourney to Close Out 2021
The Revere Police Activities League hosted a Holiday Hoops Basketball Tournament on Monday Dec. 27, at the Revere High School Fieldhouse. Freshman and Junior Varsity teams from Malden High School, Hamilton- Wenham High School, and Revere High School (Somerville High…
If COVID-19 Has a Brain, It’s Much Smarter Than Us
We don’t pretend to be experts in biology — and maybe we’ve been watching too many science fiction movies these days — but the ability of the COVID-19 virus to mutate (or shape-shift, in the lingo of sci-fi fans) in…
On the Bright Side…..
The lengthening of the daylight hours is imperceptible at first. The least amount of daylight occurred on December 22, clocking in at nine hours, seven minutes. But by the end of this week, January 8, we’ll have nine hours and…
Guest Op-Ed: Develop a Plan for 2022
By Glenn Mollette Proverbs 29.18 “Where there is no vision the people perish. “Everyone needs a strategy. You may be 25 or 85 years in age. Who cares? Probably the only one who cares about your age is you. Your…
RHS Sports Roundup
RHS Girls Defeat Danvers in Tourney The Revere High girls basketball team turned in a solid, two-way performance to earn a 42-35 victory over Danvers in the consolation game of the North Reading Holiday Invitational tournament last week. The triumph…
Obituaries 01-05-2022
Ralph F. Menier, Sr. Retired American Airlines Flight Engineer Funeral Services were conducted on Friday, December 31 in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals for Ralph F. Menier, Sr., who passed on December 27 after a long illness at…
2021 Year in Review
The old expression, “The more things change, the more they remain the same,†certainly seemed to sum up the year 2021 in Everett. The news at the beginning of the year was that COVID was devastating the Everett community with…
Arrigo Targets ARPA Funds for Revere Homeowners
Special to the Journal In a letter to Revere taxpayers, Mayor Arrigo announced the City of Revere ARPA Housing Assistance Program – an ARPA-funded initiative to grant $250 payments to owner-occupied properties to address rising housing costs. The program will…
ZBA Takes up Variance for “Special Delivery†on Christmas Eve
Special to the Journal The Revere Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday evening in the Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber at which the board considered six applications for variances. Chairman Michael Tucker and…
Yes, Let’s Ring Out the Old and Ring in the New
We often quote a verse from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ring Out Wild Bells†when we write our annual New Year’s editorial. But after reading the poem in its entirety, we are printing the whole thing, because it sums up —…
RHS Sports Roundup
RHS Basketball Teams Compete in Holiday Tourneys The Revere High boys and girls basketball teams are competing in holiday week basketball tournaments this week. Coach David Leary and the Patriots, whose contest with Greater Boston League rival Lynn Classical last…
Obituaries 12-29-2021
Maria Schindler Labor and Delivery Nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for 40 Years Funeral Services and Interment will be held privately for Maria R. (Farrell) Schindler who died on Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25, after being stricken at her home…
