We Need to Do Better than Us Vs. Them Politics Dear Editor, By the time this issue of the Journal prints, the Special Election for State Senate will be over. So this letter is not to advocate for one candidate…
Author: Journal Staff
Guest Op-Ed: Atmospheric Changes Happening in Revere. Part One.
By Kathleen Heiser If you’re as tired as most of our citizens are, with the unpleasant climate in our country, our state, and even in our city, then you might be interested in helping “plant seeds for reconciliation.†Planting Seeds…
Guest Op-Ed: Somehow, Some Way, May This Be a Christmas worth Remembering
By Dr. Glenn Mollette We had difficulties when we were growing up in Martin county, Kentucky but overall, we thought we were doing okay. President Lyndon Johnson came to Inez, Kentucky in 1964 to let us know we weren’t doing…
RHS Sports Roundup
RHS Basketball Teams Ready for Season-Openers The Revere High girls and boys basketball teams were scheduled to open their 2022 seasons last night (Tuesday) against Greater Boston League rival Everett. Both squads then will take on another GBL foe, Somerville,…
Obituaries 12-15-2021
Lisa Daniela Disario She will Always be Loved Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend Visiting Hours on Thursday, December 16 from 9 to 11 a.m., in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals, 773 Broadway (Rt. 107) Revere…
Celebrating the Holiday Season in Revere
RSCHP Hosts Holiday Party
News Briefs
Omicron Variant Detected in Massachusetts The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that genetic sequencing has identified the COVID-19 Omicron variant for the first time in a case in Massachusetts. The individual is a female in her 20s…
Senate Special Election Set for Tuesday, Dec. 14
Revere residents will head to the polls Tuesday, Dec. 14 to cast their ballots in the First Suffolk and Middlesex District Senate Special Primary Election. Revere School Committee member Anthony D’Ambrosio and Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards are the two…
ConsComm Hears of DCR’s Plans for Sullivan Park Makeover
The Revere Conservation Commission held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, December 1. Chairman John Shue and three of his fellow commissioners, Heather Legere, Joseph LaValle, and Robert Cassidy, were on hand for the meeting, as was the commission’s highly-efficient…
The Revere Society of Culture and Historic Preservation (RSCHP) Hosts Annual Holiday Party and Unveils a Revere Beach Painting
Last Saturday afternoon President of the RSCHP Bob Upton and the staff at the Revere Museum hosted their annual holiday gathering, open to the public. This gives many the opportunity to stop by and visit and see Revere’s rich historic…
Closing the Wealth Gap for Revere Entrepreneurs
Special to the Journal The City of Revere’s Small Business Division within the Department of Planning & Community Development has partnered with the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) and JPMorgan Chase to host a small business webinar series in an…
Tumultuous Meeting for Human Rights Commission
The Revere Human Rights Commission (HRC) held its regular monthly meeting last Thursday, December 2, in the City Council Chambers. Chairperson Janine Grillo Marra called the meeting to order and took the roll call of commissioners. Her fellow commissioners on…
Turner Construction Company Supports Revere Veterans With Annual Mac and Cheese “Mac Attack†Drive
The Turner Construction Company Boston team has established a unique way to support local, former servicemen and women and their families by holding an annual macaroni and cheese, “Mac Attack,†donation drive. The 2021 drive was the team’s fourth annual…
Legislature Passes American Rescue Plan Act, FY21 Surplus Spending Bill
On Friday, December 3, the Massachusetts Legislature advanced a $4 billion bill to the governor’s desk that directs federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) surplus funding to assist the Commonwealth’s ongoing economic recovery from the…
735 Households in Revere Received $5.5 Million in Emergency Rental Assistance in FY21
Special to the Journal Since 2013, Metro Housing|Boston has documented the effectiveness of Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT), a homelessness prevention program for households with low incomes that are experiencing a housing crisis. However, the pandemic has changed…
Metro Beaches Commission and Advocates Call for Better Beach Access for People With Disabilities
The Metropolitan Beaches Commission and Save the Harbor/Save the Bay convened a Virtual Public Hearing focused on improving access for people with disabilities on the Commonwealth’s public beaches in Lynn, Nahant, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy and…
RHS Model UN Participates in REVMUN IV Conference
Special to the Journal Twenty-one members of the Revere High School Model UN club recently participated in the REVMUN IV Conference where they acted as members of the Human Rights Council focused on the issue of Human Rights in China.…
Dining/Entertainment Wynn Proposes Along Everett’s Lower Broadway
Special to the Journal Wynn Development DBA East Broadway LLC, has announced that the company has filed plans with the City of Everett for a mixed-use development project along Lower Broadway, located across from Encore Boston Harbor. The initial phase…
Clark Touts Infrastructure Bill at Deer Island
Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark toured the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s (MWRA) Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Tuesday afternoon to help promote the clean water infrastructure provisions in the recently signed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bipartisan infrastructure law…