By Melissa Moore While most kids have seen life come to a halt due to Covid 19, a 14 year old Revere teenager found a way to safely keep busy. And busy in a very impressive way! Ollie Svendsen, a…
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Overnight Resident Parking Program to Take Effect Oct. 15: Residents Encouraged to Call Parking Department With Questions
Special to the Journal The City of Revere’s new city-wide resident parking program will take effect October 15 in an effort to maximize availability of parking for Revere residents, while discouraging long-term visitor parking on residential streets and commuter parking…
Revere Counts 2020 Census Team Urges Participation Before Sept. 30 Deadline: Six Mini-Grants Awarded to Local Organizations to Ramp Up Participation
Over the next two weeks, Revere Counts staff and volunteers will ramp up participation for the 2020 Census. Revere’s current response rate for the 2020 Census is 56.1%. The final self-response rate in the City of Revere was 62.7% in…
COVID-19 Update: Inspectional Services Department Increases Enforcement at Large Retailers: Revere’s Positive Test Rate Drops to 5.15%
Special to the Journal The City of Revere’s Emergency Response Team continues to monitor impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and develop policies and procedures to maintain public health and safety for all in Revere. As of September 10, the Revere…
Traffic Commission Approves Pilot Program for Bus Lane
Revere motorists who already are experiencing congestion on Broadway in the morning now will be sharing this roadway with a dedicated bus lane that will run from Revere Street to the Chelsea line starting on September 30. The Revere Traffic…
Conservation Commission Wants to Save Trees at Amazon complex
Following a site plan visit by the Conservation Commission at the end of August, it is back to the arboreal drawing boards for the owners of the Amazon building on American Legion Highway, as the Conservation Commission seeks to save…
Four New Handicapped Parking Spaces at Stadium
At the September 8 meeting of the Commission for Disabilities, the commissioners reported the good news that four handicapped parking spaces have been finished in front of the Harry Della Russo Stadium on Park Avenue. Commissioners also reminded residents that…
Northeast Metro Tech Changes Reopening Plan: District Changes Direction Amid High Numbers of Positive Local Cases
Superintendent David DiBarri reports that Northeast Metro Tech is changing course to follow its fully remote learning plan amid high numbers of positive COVID-19 cases in Revere. The district had initially planned to hold a week of remote learning this…
Revere Public Library Announces Winners of First Creative-Writing Contest
Special to the Journal The Revere Public Library held their first ever creative-writing contest over the month of August. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the library wanted to get the community engaged in something they could do in the safety of…
IKEA Retail U.S Returns $1.4 Million in Unemployment Payments That Will Fund Work Skills Training
IKEA Retail U.S. will return to Massachusetts $1,393,437 million used to pay unemployment benefits of previously furloughed employees, which will fund skill development and workforce training for both adults and youth to further assist the Commonwealth’s economic recovery from the COVID-19…
MSP as Determined as Ever to Bring Taraskiewicz’s Killer or Killers to Justice: $250,000 Reward Is Still in Effect
Special to the Journal Twenty-eight years ago this week, the body of Susan Taraskiewicz was found in the trunk of her car, which had been left outside an auto repair shop on Route 1A in Revere. So much time has…
Car Crashes Into Proctor Ave. Home
Special to the Journal On Monday, Sept. 14, at 11:33 am a box alarm was struck for a report of a motor vehicle into a building with an odor of gas. The working Deputy along with 3 pumpers and a…
MassDOT Advisory: Statewide Exit Renumbering Project Meeting Set for September 24
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing an upcoming virtual Public Information Meeting for MassDOT’s Statewide Exit Renumbering Project on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. This project is converting all existing exit numbers on freeways to a milepost-based…
Apocalypse — Now
The photos of the wildfires in our western states that have incinerated entire communities and that have turned daytime skies to night by their heavy smoke have illustrated the dramatic effects of climate change upon the daily lives of millions…
Donald Trump Is No Winston Churchill
Rage, the new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump, has revealed unequivocally that Trump deliberately has downplayed the lethality of the Covid-19 pandemic from the very beginning of the virus’s detection in the United…
Guest Op-Ed: ‘We’re All In This Together’
By James Evers When we honored our nation’s workers this Labor Day, the Boston Carmen’s Union reflected on the phrase, “We’re all in this together!” that we’ve heard so often since our world changed in mid-March. The phrase has brought…
Obituaries
William Minichello Retired U.S. Customs Inspector and Past Exalted Ruler of Winthrop Elks #1078 Family and friends are invited to attend Visiting Hours today, Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals,…
The Power to Save a Life: Baker, Arrigo Announce New Campaign to Help Highest Risk Communities
Special to the Journal Last Thursday, the Baker-Polito Administration stepped up its targeted initiative to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in communities across the Commonwealth with the highest number of positive cases. This initiative brings even greater focus to…
State Agencies, 13 Communities Find Ways to Cut Construction Costs on Mobility
The MBTA, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), Massport, the City of Boston, the City of Cambridge, the City of Somerville, the Town of Brookline, the City of Everett, the Town of Watertown, the…
