From now until June 6 the non-profit group Recovery Thoughts will be holding a clothes drive. Spring cleaning is here so please donate what you will not be keeping to addiction programs in the community such as Facebook-based Recovery Thoughts. …
Month: April 2015
Councillors Call for Heroin Overdose Task Force
Recognizing there is an epidemic in their own backyard, two councillors have called for the formation of a Heroin Overdose Task Force. Councillors Jessica Giannino and Brian Arrigo have banded together to make the issue of opioid abuse one that…
Winthrop Ave. Bridge Slated to be Replaced
The MBTA and Pan-AM Railways (formerly B&M Railroad) will be replacing the bridge on Route 145/Winthrop Avenue over the railroad tracks in Stage 1 of a larger project. Some work is being done now. On May 29 at 8 PM…
Meeting on FlightCar Seeks Land in Revere Set for April 27
A San Francisco-based rental car company is planning on bringing a branch of its company to Revere. A public hearing regarding the application of a special permit will be held Monday evening, April 27 at 6 PM at the City…
Police Briefs 04-22-2015
Monday, April 13 NO ARRESTS REPORTED Tuesday, April 14 Maria Gonzalez, 31, of Chelsea, was charged with shoplifting over $100. Wednesday, April 15 NO ARRESTS REPORTED Thursday, April 16 Francisco Pagan, 23, of 26 Agatha St., was arrested on three…
Revere Through Years
10 years ago April 20, 2005 State Senator Jarrett Barrios said this week that if Middlesex County D.A. Martha Coakley decides to run for Attorney General, he will seek Coakley’’s D.A. post. The current Atty. General, Tom Reilly, recently announced …
Revere High JROTC Aids Senior Residents
Last Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Dan Rizzo held a pizza party and recognition ceremony for the Revere High School Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) members that participated in the Snow Angel Program. We would like to join the Mayor in…
For Kids Only Afterschool Celebrates Milestone
When Deborah Kneeland Keegan founded For Kids Only 30 years ago, not even she could have forecast the success that her after-school program would attain and the national model it would become for other programs of this kind. Keegan was…
Sports 04-22-2015
RhS sports Roundup RHS softball team starts with 3-1 mark The long-delayed, but much-anticipated, 2015 season for the defending Northeastern Conference North Division and MIAA Division 1 North champion Revere High softball team got off to a busy start…
Obituaries 04-22-2015
Italia Natalie Price Of Everett Italia Natalie (Imbimbo) Price of Everett passed away April 16. She was the beloved wife of the late Charles J. Price; loving mother of Nancy Butera and her husband, Vinny of Revere, Cheryl Elleh and…
Guinasso Is Longest Serving City Council Member … Ev’a
REVERE – As of Monday night, Ward 3 Councillor Arthur Guinasso has been the longest serving city council member in the history of Revere, serving 29 years, three months and 13 days. He surpassed councilor Joseph DelGrosso who served 29…
Colm Bohill:Beloved Member of the Independent Newspaper Group
There was never a time when one could not laugh with him, nor a moment that passed when he was short of the perfect word to describe any situation. That’s how friends, family and co-workers most remember Colm Bohill, 69,…
Officials Planning for Next Year’s Snow
REVERE – There are still some signs of the seven feet of snow that got dumped on the city this past winter and officials are looking ahead to next winter. Monday night the City Council subcommittee on Public Works tossed…
Police Briefs 04-15-2015
House Breaks: (3) Vera Street; Bradstreet Avenue; and Bellingham Avenue. Commercial Breaks: (0) Motor Vehicle *Thefts/Breaks: (1) VFW – Marshall’s Motor Vehicle Accidents: (30) Brown Circle (3); Mahoney Circle; Copeland Circle; Squire Road; Yeamans Street; Beach Street; Sachem Street; Squire…
Congratulations to Revere’s Fulbright Scholar, Sarah Chaves
We congratulate Revere High School teacher and lifelong Revere resident Sarah Chaves on her receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. This is a prestigious and noteworthy award for Ms. Chaves. She will use this scholarship to study in the Azores next year.…
Mayor Stands up for Revere after an Historic Winter
We agree with Mayor Dan Rizzo that President Barack Obama should have declared a disaster for the entire historic winter that dropped more than 100 inches of snow on the Greater Boston area, including the City of Revere. Instead the…
Sports 04-15-2015
RhS sports Roundup Palermo fans 13, softball team wins opener, 3-1 “Good things come to those who wait,†the good nuns of the Sisters of St. Joseph always told us, and for the Revere High softball team, the delay in…
Obituaries 04-15-2015
Saul Elliot Katz Of Revere Saul Elliot Katz of Revere died on April 4. A US Air Force veteran of the Korean War, he was born, raised and educated in Revere and was a graduate of Revere High School. Prior…
Rizzo Disappointed with Obama’s Limited Snow Disaster Declaration
Mayor Dan Rizzo joined the growing ranks of state and local officials who were gravely disappointed with President Barack Obama in granting a far narrower disaster declaration for last winter than expected – and shorting Revere and other cities and…
Chaves Named First Fulbright Scholar in History at RHS
When Revere High School (RHS) teacher Sarah Chaves opened her e-mail during a planning period last month, it was the happiest moment of her life – yet it recalled one of the lowest points of her life. Chaves, 26 and…
