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,…
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Revere Roundup
Boys basketball team drops its last two games The Revere High boys basketball team was unable to overcome a slow start in its game with Salem last week, spotting the Witches a 25-10 lead after the opening period, and eventually…
Revere and the Stimulus Bill
By Joshua Resnek The Stimulus Bill is going to take the rough edge off the recession. It is not going to end the recession, which is more likely than not going to dog us for quite some time to come.…
Fire at KFC – Restaurant will be back and better than ever
An old friend went up in flames Monday morning when the Kentucky Fried Chicken location on Squire Road was destroyed by fire. First indications point to the fact that the company will rebuild on the site and that it will…
Police Briefs
Attempted armed robbery A man well known to police was apprehended last Monday, February 9, after being fingered for having allegedly tried to rob a man with a knife near Wonderland. Around 2 a.m. last Monday morning, a man was…
Arrest Report
Monday, February 9 Nicholas Jones, 20, of Lynn, was arrested on one warrant and charged with violating the knife ordinance. Tyron Minardi, 26, of Eastie, was charged with armed robbery while masked and receiving stolen property. Tarik Temmar, 32, of…
Obituaries
Donald Jedry, 71 Of Oregon, formerly of Revere Donald “Donnie” Lewis Jedry of Oregon City, Oregon, formerly of Revere, died on December 1, 2008, after a brief illness. He loved fishing, traveling and happy hour with his many friends in…
Obituaries
John ‘Chuck’ Coppola, 73 Founder of Coppola Construction, real estate developer, restaurateur John “Chuck” Coppola of Ipswich, formerly of Revere, died on February 4. He was 73 years old. Mr. Coppola was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. He…
Following in Their Shadows
This year on Groundhog’s Day, the workers of Revere saw shadows of their own in the form of over 40 Revere High School (RHS) students participating in the Interact Club’s Annual Job Shadowing Day. Organized by beloved teacher David Colella,…
Police Briefs
House Breaks: (6) 331 Revere St. #1; 137 Hichborn St. #2; 495 Boulevard #302; 5 Oak Island Road; 23 Fairfield St. #2; and 193 Rice Ave. #2. Commercial Breaks: (4) 250 Revere St. (St. Anthony’s); 1 Orr Square; 65 Nahant…
Retirement at Paul Revere
Longtime Paul Revere School Principal Nick Quarantiello will retire at the end of this year according to Superintendent Paul Dakin. The well-liked principal will, unfortunately, retire one year prior to the new Paul Revere School being completed. Dakin said he…
Seacoast Yearbook Donation
Mickey “Say No to Drugs” Casoli recently presented the Seacoast Academy and its principal, Tom Misci, with a donation to help defray the costs of yearbooks for the alternative school.
City Council expense funds cut?
There is apparently a move underway for the city council to cut the amount of money they each receive for expenses – and maybe by as much as $200 a month. The councillors are getting into the spirit of the…
Safe Chambers – Brothers return home after separate overseas deployments
Paul and Carolyn Chambers should be quite proud of their three sons’ service to the country. Jamie Paul Chambers and Jared Chambers returned in January from their United States Army National Guard deployment in Afghanistan. Their older brother, Jesse Chambers,…
Eye-opening plans
Mayor Ambrosino is apparently planning a number of cost cutting and cost saving moves that may include closing city hall on Fridays and holding city council meetings – in fact – all meetings during the day so city hall doesn’t…
The librarian
When word spread around the city earlier this week that an indictment was going to be announced, or that an investigation was underway of a city employee that it was the Revere Public Library librarian. And yet it was, shocking…
What to think?
Just in case you are a taxpayer wondering about the waste at the city yard and seeming lack of interest of nearly everyone in elected public office to do anything meaningful about it, try this on. The city government is…
Get in line
No matter how many times we write about the mayor’s race coming up and its endless, almost infinite possibilities, there is a certain amount of pleasure derived in trying to handicap a race that might never happen. We will again…
The $7.00 tunnel fare
There is general outrage over the $7.00 tunnel fare the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is trying to impose on commuters. The doubling of the fare has local politicians almost out of their minds at the effrontery of the MTA, which is…
The Revere connection with Senator Wilkerson
A Revere man is apparently the government’s main witness against Senator Diane Wilkerson, who was recently arrested and charged with bribery. She has since stopped campaigning for re-election and has said she will shortly be stepping down from her seat.…
