By Cary Shuman For the Journal Revere High School is a place where dreams can come true. Just ask football captain Manuel “Manny†Velez who has a signed a letter of intent to attend Merrimack College in North Andover. Velez…
Economic Outlook
With a little luck, Revere could experience less heartache than other parts of the country There is the very real likelihood that the effects of the nationwide recession here will be felt much less than in other areas of the…
People & Politics
Dan Rizzo’s St. Patrick’s Day Fundraiser The second annual St. Patrick’s Day Fundraiser held by Dan Rizzo will take place Wednesday March 11 from 6 to 9p.m. at the VFW Mottolo Post, 10 Garofalo Street. It will include a traditional…
Restaurant destroyed, property loss could be as high as $500,000
By Seth Daniel [email protected] After an initial investigation, it wasn’t the fiery buffalo wings that ignited the KFC on Squire Road Monday morning, but rather some cooking ventilation equipment or a clothes dryer. A huge plume of dense, black smoke…
Sandbagged? – Is Sand Sculpting Festival moving to Lynn?
By Seth Daniel [email protected] A winter chill has been put on the city’s biggest fun-in-the-sun festival, the annual New England Sand Sculpting Invitational on Revere Beach, as a shakeup in the organization has one former coordinator trying to take the…
100 highest-paid employees accounted for almost 9 percent of the 2008 budget
By Seth Daniel [email protected] City salaries still outpaced that of Revere workers in private sector jobs, according to the latest salary figures the city released last week, and there are now 71 city employees who make $100,000 or more. Astonishingly,…
