The Revere Commission on Disabilities (COD) held its regular monthly meeting last Tuesday, September 13; On hand for the meeting were chairperson Ralph DeCicco and members Robert Brown, Mario Grimanis, Asmaa Abou-Fouda, and Jason Barone, as well as Revere High…
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Breakheart Reservation To Host Inaugural Fall Family Festival
Join the Department of Recreation at Breakheart on Saturday, Oct. 1. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the first annual Fall Family Festival. Celebrate the season at Breakheart Reservation this fall. This free event will include lawn games, a…
New Exhibition Will Feature NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover at MOS
Special to the Journal The Museum of Science, Boston(MOS), one of the world’s largest science centers, announced the opening of its newest exhibition, Exploring AI: Making the Invisible Visible. Created by the Museum of Science, the exhibition invites visitors to…
RHS Students Present at CHA Academic Poster Session
By Lauren Hayes and Paul Rizzo On September 14, 2022, current Revere High School (RHS) students presented a poster at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Academic Poster Session at the Row Hotel at Assembly Row. The students presented alongside Dr.…
Cambridge Health Alliance Launches State-of-the-Art Robotic Surgery Program
In August, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston’s metro-north communities, launched its robotic surgery program with the da Vinci® Xi surgical robot. CHA now offers many patients the most cutting-edge technology in surgeries…
Dot’s Army Holds Another Successful Cornhole Tournament
By Melissa Moore-Randall The Dot’s Army Annual Cornhole Tournament and BBQ was held recently at Fields at Griswold Park. The sold out included 24 adult teams and 12 teen teams. Winners were awarded trophies and cash prizes. Bent Water Brewing…
Orange Line, Green Line Extension Services Resume on Schedule
Special to the Journal On Monday, September 19, both the Orange Line service and Green Line Union Square service resumed. The MBTA initiated the 30-day full closure of the Orange Line on August 19 to complete five years of improvements…
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Availability of $100 Million for Public Schools
The Baker-Polito Administration announced the availability of $100 million in grant funding for school districts to improve ventilation and indoor air-quality to support healthy learning environments. The grants will be targeted to schools with high concentrations of economically disadvantaged students,…
Northeast Metro Tech Welcomes Comfort Dog
Special to the Journal Superintendent David DiBarri is pleased to share that Northeast Metro Tech has welcomed a comfort dog to its campus. Nor’E is an eight-week-old English black lab who arrived on campus at the beginning of the school…
Get the New COVID Shot Now!
We realize that after two and one-half years of dealing with COVID-19, all of us just want to be done with COVID. But the unfortunate reality is that COVID-19 is not done with us, despite what President Biden suggested in…
Guest Op-Ed: Cardinal O’Malley Statement Regarding Immigration
By Cardinal Seán O’Malley Immigration policies and practices stand as an abiding moral, legal and political challenge to our Commonwealth and our country. We have delayed far too long in developing an effective response to immigrants, migrants, and refugees at…
Letters to the Editor
Children are Parent’s Best Investment Dear Editor, Today’s culture encourages young people to persue a career and to avoid having children. Corporate America supports this view wanting to keep women in the work force. They provide incentives even to provide…
RHS Sports Roundup: RHS Girls Volleyball Now at 7–0; Big Match Tonight With Malden
The Revere High girls volleyball team continued its winning ways this past week, winning all three of its matches to improve to 7-0 on the season. Coach Lianne Mimmo’s squad took care of two of their Greater Boston League rivals,…
Obituaries 09-21-2022
Sandra Ferri Of Revere Sandra (Cutillo) Ferri of Revere passed away on September 11, 2022. The wife of the late Vincent R. Ferri and the cherished loving companion of Al Doucette of Revere, she was the devoted mother of Vincent…
Next Stop Revere Trolley Tour of Revere
Revere Remembers September 11
News Briefs
Christian Flag Event Set for Sept. 21 at City Hall Local faith leaders, including Hal Shurtleff of Camp Constitution, the Rev. Steven Craft of Christian Citizens Ministries, and Pastor Earl Wallace of Liberty Christian Fellowship Church will be the featured…
Revere’s Gianna Gravalese Is the New Afternoon Voice at Kiss 108
By Melissa Moore-Randall Revere native Gianna Gravalese has seen her dream become a reality. Gravelese, daughter of Elaine Doris and Eddie Gravalese, has joined Kiss 108’s Mike V and Frankie V, The VBros afternoon broadcast adding a female perspective and…
Robin’s Nest Wins Top Honors As Northshore Magazine’s Best Gift Shop
Robin’s Nest in Winthrop was recently chosen by the Editors at ‘Northshore Magazine’ as the BONS 2022 Winner for Best Gift Shop on the Northshore! The Editor’s shared this about Robin’s Nest: “A perennial BONS winner, Robin’s Nest consistently…
George Rotondo
Long-time Revere residents were both stunned and saddened to hear the news this week that long-time City Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo had passed away suddenly over the weekend. Mr. Rotondo first served the residents of Ward 4 as their ward councillor…