The Revere Conservation Commission held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday evening, May 4, in the City Council Chamber. Chairman John Shue and commissioners Heather Legere, Ann Raponi, Joseph LaValle, Nicholas Rudolph, and Brian Averback were on hand for the…
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Upcoming Picnic and Pollinator Event at Susan B. Anthony School May 28
Special to the Journal All Revere residents are invited to a Family Picnic and Pollinator Event on Saturday, May 28th, from 11 AM to 1 PM. With Saturday, June 4th as the rain date. The event will take place at…
State Treasurer’s Veterans’ Bonus Division Extends Eligibility Period
The State Treasurer’s Veterans’ Bonus Division announced that the eligibility period for the Massachusetts COVID-19 Bonus for National Guard members has been extended past its initial end date of June 15, 2021. National Guard members activated for additional deployments at…
RHS Sports Roundup
Two More Wins for RHS Boys Track; GBL Title on the Line This Week The Revere Hgh boys outdoor track and field team moved two steps closer to completing an undefeated dual-meet season and clinching an undisputed Greater Boston League…
5k Race in Memory of John T. Diliegro
April Birthdays At Rossetti-Cowan
News Briefs
New Grant Opportunity to Advance District Attorneys’ Safer Communities Initiative The Baker-Polito Administration is pleased to announce a new competitive grant opportunity, which will award approximately $1 Million to support programs that will enhance community safety through crime reduction and…
Celebrating Iftar at the Senior Center
By Asmaa Abou-Fouda and Edward Deveau On Friday April 29th, approximately one hundred Muslim and non-Muslim members of our community came together at the Rosetti-Cowan Senior Center to learn about Ramadan and to participate in the joyful and culinary event…
More Change Coming to Broadway: ZBA Approves Variances to Tear Down Old Moose Lodge, Expand Office Space
Revere residents soon will be seeing change to the landscape on Broadway. The Revere Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), which held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, April 27, in the City Councillor Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber, unanimously…
Board of Health Upholds Fines, Suspensions Under New State Tobacco Law
The Revere Board of Health (BoH) held its regular monthly meeting last Thursday, April 28, in the City Council Chambers. On hand for the meeting were chairperson Dr. Drew Bunker, fellow members Dr. Craig Costanza and Nezha Louaddi, Director of…
Chris Alba is May’s Public Servant of the Month
Special to the Journal Mayor Brian Arrigo this week announced Christian (Chris) Alba as May 2022’s Public Servant of the Month. Chris works in the City of Revere’s Substance Use Disorder and Homelessness Initiatives Office (SUDHI) doing outwork with our…
Arrigo Invites Residents, Community Stakeholders to May 10 Final McKinley School Revisioning Presentation
Mayor Arrigo is inviting both Revere residents and community stakeholders to the final presentation of the McKinley School Revisioning Process on May 10, 2022. Through funding from the MassDevelopment Real Estate Technical Services Program, planners in the City’s Department of…
Thank You and Best Wishes, Kathy Procopio
We wish to take a moment of personal privilege, so to speak, to acknowledge the recent retirement of Kathy Bright Procopio, who worked in the advertising department of the Revere Journal for almost three decades. Kathy was great at her…
Alcohol Is Still #1
Americans have been dying prematurely at unprecedented levels in the past two years from a number of causes. COVID-19 has taken away almost one million of our fellow Americans, with the number still rising daily for the foreseeable future. Fatal…
Is Nuclear War Inevitable In Ukraine — and Beyond?
We don’t want to sound like alarmists, but in our opinion, the escalation both in military weaponry and rhetoric by the Western powers and the Kremlin is bringing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear warfare in Ukraine.…
Guest Op-Ed: We’ve All Gone Mad… and Just Too Far
By Mayor Brian Arrigo “The last hopes of mankind, therefore, rest with us; and if it should be proclaimed, that our example had become an argument against the experiment, the knell of popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth. 
Guest Op-Ed: Celebrate Mother’s Day
By Glenn Mollette Celebrate Mother’s Day anyway you can but don’t miss the opportunity to honor mom. The opportunities pass us by. While mom is alive is the time to do something for her. Too often someone dies and we…
RHS Sports Roundup
Girls Track Rolls to Fourth Straight Win The Revere High girls outdoor track and field team rolled to its fourth straight win of the young season with a 94-33 victory over Lynn English last Tuesday. Captain Carolina Bettero took home…
Obituaries 05-04-2022
Evelyn Ferrante Of Saugus, formerly of Revere Evelyn (Zaccaria) Ferrante, 96, of Saugus, formerly of Revere, passed away at home surrounded by her loving family on April 28. Born in Revere on February 27, 1926 to the late Charles and…
