Revere residents soon will be seeing change to the landscape on Broadway. The Revere Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), which held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, April 27, in the City Councillor Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber, unanimously…
Month: May 2022
Cogliandro Awaits Videotape of Incident After HRC Meeting
Ward 3 Councillor Anthony Cogliandro said he has not yet received a videotape of a verbal exchange that allegedly occurred following a Revere Human Rights Commission meeting. At the April 25 City Council meeting, a resident claimed that she was…
Board of Health Upholds Fines, Suspensions Under New State Tobacco Law
The Revere Board of Health (BoH) held its regular monthly meeting last Thursday, April 28, in the City Council Chambers. On hand for the meeting were chairperson Dr. Drew Bunker, fellow members Dr. Craig Costanza and Nezha Louaddi, Director of…
MSBA Votes to Send New RHS Into the Schematic Design Phase
Three months after the School Committee, the School Building Committee and the Revere City Council voted to recommend the former Wonderland Dogtrack as the preferred site for a new Revere High School (RHS), the project has hit another benchmark. At…
Revere Public Library Will Host Mother’s Day Tea Party May 6
The Revere Public Library, led by Library Director Diana Luongo and Children’s Librarian Krystee Maniscalco, will host a Mother’s Day Tea Party on Friday, May 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Library. Parents and children are cordially…
Chris Alba is May’s Public Servant of the Month
Special to the Journal Mayor Brian Arrigo this week announced Christian (Chris) Alba as May 2022’s Public Servant of the Month. Chris works in the City of Revere’s Substance Use Disorder and Homelessness Initiatives Office (SUDHI) doing outwork with our…
Arrigo Invites Residents, Community Stakeholders to May 10 Final McKinley School Revisioning Presentation
Mayor Arrigo is inviting both Revere residents and community stakeholders to the final presentation of the McKinley School Revisioning Process on May 10, 2022. Through funding from the MassDevelopment Real Estate Technical Services Program, planners in the City’s Department of…
Thank You and Best Wishes, Kathy Procopio
We wish to take a moment of personal privilege, so to speak, to acknowledge the recent retirement of Kathy Bright Procopio, who worked in the advertising department of the Revere Journal for almost three decades. Kathy was great at her…
Alcohol Is Still #1
Americans have been dying prematurely at unprecedented levels in the past two years from a number of causes. COVID-19 has taken away almost one million of our fellow Americans, with the number still rising daily for the foreseeable future. Fatal…
Is Nuclear War Inevitable In Ukraine — and Beyond?
We don’t want to sound like alarmists, but in our opinion, the escalation both in military weaponry and rhetoric by the Western powers and the Kremlin is bringing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear warfare in Ukraine.…
Guest Op-Ed: We’ve All Gone Mad… and Just Too Far
By Mayor Brian Arrigo “The last hopes of mankind, therefore, rest with us; and if it should be proclaimed, that our example had become an argument against the experiment, the knell of popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth. 
Guest Op-Ed: Celebrate Mother’s Day
By Glenn Mollette Celebrate Mother’s Day anyway you can but don’t miss the opportunity to honor mom. The opportunities pass us by. While mom is alive is the time to do something for her. Too often someone dies and we…
RHS Sports Roundup
Girls Track Rolls to Fourth Straight Win The Revere High girls outdoor track and field team rolled to its fourth straight win of the young season with a 94-33 victory over Lynn English last Tuesday. Captain Carolina Bettero took home…
Obituaries 05-04-2022
Evelyn Ferrante Of Saugus, formerly of Revere Evelyn (Zaccaria) Ferrante, 96, of Saugus, formerly of Revere, passed away at home surrounded by her loving family on April 28. Born in Revere on February 27, 1926 to the late Charles and…
