Category: Editorials

Congratulations,Chief Doherty

Gene Doherty has retired as the chief of the Revere Fire Department, ending a distinguished 46-year career in the profession. Every day on the job Gene Doherty brought his best and he understood the strong fraternity that is firefighting. At…

Letters to the Editor

Pleased with Mayor Arrigo Dear Editor: Six months into his term, Mayor Brian Arrigo seems to have done everything in his power to keep the promise he made to the voters of Revere, which was to bring accountability to Revere…

Impact of Charter Schools on Revere

By Dianne Kelley, Carol Tye and Paul Dakin As the statewide debate over the expansion of charter schools continues and November’s ballot question to lift the existing cap on charter schools looms, it’s important to consider the impact of charter…

Congratulations,RHS Class of 2016

Graduation exercises for the Revere High School Class of 2016 will be held Thursday evening. For our community, high school graduation time is a city-wide celebration, even for those who do not have children or relatives among the graduates. All…

Letter to the Editor

A piece of Revere’s history Dear Editor: It’s hard to believe that  Wonderland structure is no more. 
When I was growing up in the 1950’s Wonderland and Suffolk Downs were the Disney Worlds of that time. Thousands of people came…

Letter to the Editor

Thanks for the Scholarship Dear Revere Journal: I just wanted to take this time to tell you how thankful I am for this scholarship. It helped me so much with affording my books and other expenses that I could nearly…

Enjoy the Weekend — Safely

We saw a statistic the other day that seemed baffling: The death toll on our nation’s roads and highways once again is on the rise. Last year, there were 38,000 highway fatalities in America. That’s about 100 Americans killed every…

Letter to the Editor

Against flavored tobacco Dear Editor As a Revere parent and staff member of the Revere CARES coalition I care deeply about the health and wellbeing of our youth and I was alarmed to learn from Lacina Onco of the Metro…

Healthy Food Equals a Healthy Economy

by Mayor Brian Arrigo and Andrea Janota, MPH More than one million Massachusetts residents, including over 300,000 children, live in economically distressed urban and rural communities with limited access to markets carrying healthy, affordable foods, such as fresh produce, meat…

A Great Cause

Under beautiful skies, the Wounded Vet Ride with more than 6,000 motorcycles participating went through parts of our community last weekend.  The Ride helped raise funds for four local veterans who were wounded in combat overseas. The idea of the…

Thank You Dan Rizzo

Like so many residents and officials in Revere, year after year former Mayor Dan Rizzo has always been generous to the Community Scholarship Fund that helps Revere High School students with financial aid to further their educational pursuit. This year…

Letter to the Editor

Thanks all donors for the quarter The City of Revere Community Scholarship wants to thank the following Individuals who  made contributions from Jan. 1, 2016 through April, 2016   Leaders     ($100 and above) Dan rizzo   Benefactors ($100.) Robert m.…

The End of An Era

For those of us who grew up in this area a generation (or more) ago, a mid-summer Friday night was not complete without stopping at Wonderland Dog Track to watch Swifty outrun the greyhounds.  You would get into the grandstand…

Great News from Revere Schools

The story in last week’s Journal about Revere High senior Luke Hartnett’s acceptance to MIT and the news that senior Alicia Barry has been admitted to Harvard University, puts an exclamation point on the fine work performed day-in and day-out…