Looking more like Iceland than Revere Beach these days, this photo of a giant glaciers and ice floes continue to occupy and block up the Beach, across from Kelly’s, after this winter’s brutal cold and snow. While most everyone knows…
Author: Journal Staff
City Moves Toward Law to Step up Inspectional Services
REVERE – The city has already cleaned up one blighted property on Washington Street and turned it into saleable condominiums, now they are moving to give inspectional services the tools and support to clean up more. Tuesday night the City…
Harvard Students Get Ready to Plan a Redesigned Revere
REVERE – For the next eight weeks 50 graduate students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design will be teaming up with the city to work on the design and development of several areas in the city. Last Thursday Mayor…
Police Briefs 03-11-2015
SHOTS FIRED OUTSIDE SQUIRE LOUNGE Revere Police are investigating three gunshots discharged right outside the entrance to the Squire Lounge early Friday morning. At around 12:41 a.m., police were called to the Squire for gunshots witnessed by several people. Witnesses…
Richard Penta
Richard A. Penta was a vital part of the daily life and city government of Revere. He not only served as the Ward 1 City Councillor for several terms, but he contributed to the betterment of community and the people…
Congratulations Revere Pop Warner
The Revere Pop Warner Junior Patriots youth football and cheerleading organization is highly regarded in Massachusetts and beyond. The Revere cheerleading program has produced numerous national championships as director Carolyn Demers and the RPW staff of coaches have worked hard…
Letters to the Editor
She let us down Dear Editor Our new congressional elected official, Congresswoman Katherine Clark, who represents the City of Revere, has recently verbally attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, suggesting that the Prime Minister keep his mouth shut and…
Sports 03-11-2015
IC JV Basketball champiuons The Immaculate Conception Boys Junior Varsity basketball team finished up a strong season by winning the Middlesex Catholic Elementary School League Championship. After going undefeated during the regular season, the boys entered the playoffs as the…
Obituaries 03-11-2015
Rocco Anthony Jesso Gifted and Much Loved Educator Rocco Anthony Jesso, a Charlestown native, formerly of Revere, died on Wednesday, March 4 after a long illness at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 83 years old. Mr. Jesso was born and…
Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss
Beachmont First Grader Isaac Patente was ready to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a look at ‘The Lorax’ on Monday during the Read Across America celebration throughout Revere Public Schools. Numerous local and state dignitaries, including Mayor Dan Rizzo and…
Vinny Prezioso Making It Big as a Billboard Hit
If pop songwriter and producer, Vinny Prezioso, was stranded by the MBTA in Boston during a blizzard and forced to sculpt himself an igloo for shelter, he couldn’t survive without his acoustic guitar, laptop, and microphone. It would be a…
Police Briefs 03-04-2015
ARRESTED AT SEACOAST A 16-year-old from the Seacoast School was arrested on serious charges after a fight that injured a teacher last Thursday morning. Around 11:47 a.m. a couple of kids got into a fight at the school. A teacher…
We Are One Community
When hateful notes were found in the Shirley Avenue in Revere last week – notes that were threatening to Muslims – the city rallied and responded in an extraordinary way. First of all, the Revere Police responded to the situation…
Congratulations Coach Decristoforo and The RHS Girls Team
We remember the excitement that former Revere High basketball star Richie DeCristoforo and his teammates brought to the city’s sports community in the early 1970s. With coach Buddy O’Neill on the bench, the RHS boys basketball team was a formidable…
Letters to the Editor
“We Got Your Back†Dear Editor: The hate messages that were found scattered around the Revere Beach area and whose purveyors were intending for it to have a chilling effect on members of the Muslim community in Revere and surrounding…
Sports 03-04-2015
RHS girls basketball team falls to Billerica in quarterfinals By Cary Shuman The Revere High School girls basketball team had a doubly tough assignment in the quarterfinals of the MIAA State Tournament Saturday night. Not only was Revere facing Billerica,…
Obituaries 03-04-2015
Anthony Pesce, Sr. Retired Revere Fire Dept. Lieutenant Anthony V. (Tony) Pesce Sr., of Revere, retired Lieutenant Revere Fire Department, passed away on February 15. Tony was a Revere firefighter for over 35 years. He was stationed at Station#5 on…
Mayor, Council Celebrate Revere’s Fiscal Status
REVERE – Standard and Poor’s rating services has given the city of Revere a rating of AA-. Another association has given the city an award for its distinguished budget presentation and the state Department of Revenue has certified the city…
Councillors Want Future Snow Plan
REVERE – It’s been said that this winter is of historical proportions – historic snow, historic cold and historic spending on snow removal. No one has a crystal ball to see if it could all happen again, but if it…
Police Briefs 02-25-2015
Arrest Report TUESDAY, Â FEBRUARY 17 Robert P. Marley, 56, of Lynnfield, was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor (5th offense), negligent operation of a motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle with a…
