The Olympic Games, even in our age of cynicism, divisive social media, and AI, remains an event that is unparalleled in our world today. We still get chills when we watch the opening ceremonies of an Olympics, and we did…
Category: Editorials
Oh Well….
Half the fun of being a fan of a team that has reached the Super Bowl is the build-up to game day. It’s two weeks of non-stop media coverage that eventually climaxes with all of the parties and get-togethers that…
Acclimating to our Local Ice Age
The bitterly cold weather that we’ve been experiencing day-after-day this winter has been oppressive (not to mention costly because of our high heating bills). The daily lows in the single digits, coupled with the strong winds that have brought the…
Go Pats!
It seems like it was just yesterday that Patriot Nation looked forward to our Patriots making it to the Super Bowl almost every year. From 2002-2019, the Pats went to nine Super Bowls in 18 years, winning six of them,…
The Pitt demonstrates a healthcare system on life support
The Pitt, the critically-acclaimed hit series on HBO about an emergency room in a big-city hospital in Pittsburgh that has just begun its second season, is far more than just good entertainment. The critically-acclaimed show also accurately portrays the critical…
This is the SAD-dest time of the Year — so get Outside
With the oppressiveness of a New England winter fully upon us, for many this can be the saddest time of the year — quite literally. The medical community has long-recognized that the shortened days of winter affect all of us…
Guest Op-Ed: A Giant in the Shadows
By Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. I first met Eleanor (Ellie) J. Collar in 1974, when I was a freshman at Revere High School, beginning to find my place in the world. Ellie had already devoted more than two decades to…
Let’s go Patriots!
For those of us who are longtime fans of the New England Patriots, it seems like it was only yesterday that the Pats of Brady and Belichick were the dominant team in the NFL. We were around in the early…
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
For those of a certain age, it is hard to imagine that 2026 will mark 58 years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis while he was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel…
Still time to get flu shots for yourself and your children
An estimated 7400 Americans already have died from the flu this season. Although most deaths occur among senior citizens, young children are the next most-vulnerable group. The tragedy is that almost all of these deaths would have been preventable if…
Thank you, Stranger Things
The long-awaited conclusion of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, finally arrived over the holiday week. It’s hard to believe that it has been more than nine years since the show became a cultural phenomenon when the first season debuted…
Letter to the Editor 1-7-26
A NEW YEARS MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR Dear Editor, Residents, Family, Friends and Neighbors, As we welcome 2026, I want to wish you and your loved ones a safe, prosperous, and healthy New Year. The start of a new year…
Happy New Year
It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2026 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who ourselves are close to three-quarters of a…
Merry Christmas
This is the most wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the popular song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories of Christmases-past. We choose just the right tree, decorate…
The Mass Shooting in Australia: Shocking, but Sadly, not Surprising
This past weekend’s tragic shooting in Australia at a Hanukkah festival once again has demonstrated to the world the pernicious and evil effects of anit-semitism, which is the world’s oldest form of prejudice. Anti-semitism may have reached its peak with…
A Long, Hard Winter Lies Ahead
We didn’t need a weatherman to tell us that the first part of December has been unusually cold. So it was not at all surprising when we recently read that this has been the coldest start to December in our…
Letter to the Editor
A Big BIC Thank You and the Launch of the “Kindness Cabinet” Dear Editor, The Beachmont Improvement Committee (BIC) has debuted its first-ever “Kindness Cabinet,” a new community initiative developed by BIC members Megan and Jason Simmons Herrling to provide…
The MAHA moms are Right about Toxic Waste
As our regular readers know, we have been highly-critical of the so-called Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the least qualified and least knowledgeable person ever to lead the Department of Health and Human…
Happy Hanukkah
The eight-day observance of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, starts this Sunday evening, December 14, and will culminate on Monday, December 22. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days by lighting the candles of the Menorah,…
Remember those in Need on Your Holiday Shopping List
Americans already have been spending a record amount of money thus far this holiday season, spurred on by the extended “Black Friday” (we are using quotes because Black Friday sales began in early November), Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday…