By Adam Swift In a closely contested race, Patrick Keefe topped Dan Rizzo to become Revere’s next mayor. Keefe came out ahead by 330 votes on the unofficial count, 4,852 to 4,522. There was little love lost between the two…
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State Rep.Giannino Hosts Get Out the Vote Breakfast
RHA Celebrates Launch of Apartment Wi-Fi Program
By Adam Swift The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the City of Revere, and the Revere Housing Authority (RHA) celebrated the launch of the first “Apartment Wi-Fi” program to increase access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet for residents of…
Amazon Makes Generous Donation to RPS’s Sixth, Seventh and Eighth-Graders
Special to the Journal On Oct. 25, Amazon’s K-12 Education Advisor, Joe Munno, stopped Revere Public School’s (RPS) Central Office with a gift. Munno, wheeling a pallet of Amazon delivery boxes filled with hundreds of books, was met at the…
Fire Officials Issue Home Heating Reminder Following Revere House Fire
Special to the Journal A three-alarm fire in Revere last week started with a furnace, prompting a reminder from fire officials to pay special attention to home heating safety. Heating equipment is the top source of carbon monoxide at home…
Debate Team’s Alex Gracias and Salsabil Mendoza Win First Place During Saturday’s Revere Fall Fest Speech Tournament
Special to the Journal On Saturday, Oct. 28, Revere High School (RHS) Speech and Debate Team kicked off the 2023–2024 season at RHS with the first regular-season Massachusetts Speech and Debate League tournament. The tournament, hosted at RHS, featured over…
Senior Center Halloween Party
State and City Officials Announce State-Wide Development Grants at Suffolk Downs
By Adam Swift Last week, Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao, and Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus were in Revere to announce $164 million for 338 grant awards to support local economic…
Officials Alert Residents to Possible Lead Contamination
Special to the Journal Revere City officials are urging residents to remove lead service lines. Some homes may have high levels of lead in their drinking water. The Revere Water Division has performed tests on higher risk properties that may…
EBNHC President and CEO named to Modern Healthcare’s Top Diversity Leaders List
Special to the Journal East Boston Neighborhood Health Center is proud to announce that President and CEO, Greg Wilmot, was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of 2023’s Top Diversity Leaders. “I am deeply honored to be recognized by Modern…
Acting Mayor Keefe Announces Revere Budget Office Receives International Certificate of Achievement
Special to the Journal Mayor Patrick M. Keefe Jr. has announced that the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to the City of Revere…
Link Logistics Donates $1 Million for Community Projects in Ward 1
Special to the Journal Link Logistics will be redeveloping a 44-acre Global Petroleum facility along 1A, creating over 600k square feet of logistics space that will create jobs, remove an eyesore from a key city gateway, and bring a host…
Project Bread Hosts Another Successful Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger
Special to the Journal On Sunday, Oct. 22, over 75 participants of different faiths united both in person and virtually for the annual Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger. Together, they raised $15,000 to support Project Bread’s year-round efforts to prevent…
Northeast Vocational Students Work on Revere Historical Museum for Second Year
Special to the Journal Superintendent David DiBarri is pleased to share that Northeast Metro Tech students have begun a second year of work at the 122-year-old Revere History Museum. Last year students in the Electrical Pathway put their skills to…
Pumpkin Dash @ Revere Beach
City Cuts Ribbon for New DPW Building
By Adam Swift City and state officials joined Revere’s public works employees to cut the ribbon on the new 38,000-square-foot DPW facility on Charger Street on Monday morning. “This is a tremendous day for all of us,” said city Chief…
Revere’s Single Largest Water System Improvement Project Slated To Begin in Spring of 2024
Special to the Journal Last week, the City of Revere’s Purchasing Agent, Michael Piccardi, issued an invitation for public bids for one of the city’s single largest water system distribution Improvement projects, ever undertaken, planned for the Spring of 2024,…
Secretary Tutwiler and Commissioner Riley Visit CityLab High School in Revere
Special to the Journal As part of Massachusetts STEM Week, State Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley paid a visit to CityLab Innovation High School in Revere on Thursday, Oct. 19, to talk about…
Gardner Transportation Company Penalized After Large Fuel Oil Spill Into Rumney Marsh in Revere Damages Natural Resources
Special to the Journal The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced today that it has assessed a $116,458.50 penalty to a Gardner-based shipping and trucking company, for environmental damage following a 2021 release of an estimated 10,000 gallons of…
Revere High School Outdoors Club Awarded Partnership Grant by the Foundation Trust
Special to the Journal The Revere High School Outdoors Club recently announced a new partnership with the Foundation Trust, a private philanthropic organization serving the greater Boston area. The grant of $4,235 will support current and expanding RHS Outdoors Club…
