Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund Grows With New Political Director Juan Pablo Jaramillo The Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund would like to announce the newest member of its team. Juan Pablo Jaramillo will join this week as the…
Category: News
Board of Health Approves Ordinance for Beekeeping
The Revere Board of Health held a brief (about 13 minutes), but productive meeting last Tuesday, December 7, in the City Council Chambers. On hand were chairperson Dr. Nathalee Kong and fellow members Dr. Craig Costanza and Nezha Louaddi. The meeting marked the…
Speech and Debaters Make Return to In-Person Contests for Warrior Showdown
Special to the Journal On Saturday, December 4, five members of the Revere High School Speech and Debate Team competed at the first in-person tournament held by the Massachusetts Speech and Debate League since the winter of 2020. Spirits were…
Applications for Elderly and Disabled Taxation Relief Fund, Water and Sewer Relief Fund Available
Mayor Brian Arrigo announced this week that the applications for grants from the Elderly & Disabled Residents Taxation Fund and the newly established Water and Sewer Relief Funds for Disabled Residents will be available in the City Treasurer’s Office on…
Recognizing an Icon on the City Council: Arthur Guinasso Honored for 34 Years of Service
Ward 3 Councillor Arthur Guinasso, dean of the Revere City Council with 34 years of distinguished service, attended his final City Council meeting Monday night. Colleagues praised Guinasso as one of the longest-serving members in the city’s history. Ward 4…
‘A Man of Faith and Love for the City’ Anthony Zambuto Is Honored by Council
Anthony Zambuto served for 22 consecutive years as a councillor-at-large, winning 11 elections. He served this year as president of the City Council as Revere continued to come back from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Zambuto was universally praised by his…
‘One of the Greatest City Councillors’ Councillor John Powers Honored by Colleagues
Ward 5 Councillor John Powers was once a key aide to Massachusetts Gov. Endicott “Chub†Peabody. He later served commendably as director of recreation in the City of Revere in another part of his lifelong commitment to public service. Monday…
Council Delays Action on Metered Rates Ordinance
The Council’s Ways and Means Subcommittee decided to postpone action on an ordinance amending metered rates for residential buildings and commercial properties based upon the number of units in the buildings at its meeting Monday. Subcommittee Chair Gerry Visconti said…
‘A Beginning of A New Chapter’: Council Honors Jessica Giannino
With her proud family sitting in the front row, Jessica A. Giannino was honored for her contributions to the City Council over the past decade. Giannino, the popular 30-year-old councillor-at-large who was first elected to the Council while a student…
HarborCOV Releases Statement, Asks Community to Stand Against Domestic Violence
Special to the Journal HarborCOV is heartbroken and mourns the loss of a life on December 11, 2021; one life lost to domestic violence is too many. With condolence to the victim, the victim’s family, and the community, we ask…
Start the New Year With a New Career at the MBTA
The MBTA is aggressively hiring new employees to join its dynamic workforce. It takes many people to move over a million trips a day, and the 6,500-person MBTA is redoubling efforts to hire hundreds of open positions – from train…
Celebrating the Holiday Season in Revere
RSCHP Hosts Holiday Party
Lt. Gov Polito Presents MassWorks Infrastructure Program Grant to City
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Ashley Stolba came to Revere Tuesday to present a MassWorks Infrastructure Program design grant of $750,000 to the city that will help reconfigure the area near Redgate’s proposed residential and …
Councillors Cite Lack of Communications from RHS Building Committee
The Revere High School Building Committee, who is working on plans for the construction of a new high school, came under heavy criticism at Monday night’s City Council meeting. Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo led the torrent after requesting that the building…
News Briefs
Omicron Variant Detected in Massachusetts The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that genetic sequencing has identified the COVID-19 Omicron variant for the first time in a case in Massachusetts. The individual is a female in her 20s…
Senate Special Election Set for Tuesday, Dec. 14
Revere residents will head to the polls Tuesday, Dec. 14 to cast their ballots in the First Suffolk and Middlesex District Senate Special Primary Election. Revere School Committee member Anthony D’Ambrosio and Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards are the two…
And Then There Were Two: RHS Building Committee Narrows Down Potential Sites to Two
At a recent virtual meeting of the Revere High School Building Committee, committee members voted 9-1 to narrow down site options for building of a new Revere High School to only two potential sites in the city. At the meeting…
ConsComm Hears of DCR’s Plans for Sullivan Park Makeover
The Revere Conservation Commission held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, December 1. Chairman John Shue and three of his fellow commissioners, Heather Legere, Joseph LaValle, and Robert Cassidy, were on hand for the meeting, as was the commission’s highly-efficient…
McKenna, HYM Team Up for Revere’s Bus Riders
Through the diligent efforts of Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKenna and the generosity of HYM, developer of the Suffolk Downs project, Revere bus riders now have a new bench on Furlong Drive. During her first year in office in 2015,…
