Author: Journal Staff

Police Briefs 04-29-2020

Weekly Crime Report Friday, April 17 0024: Officers responded to a report of a noise disturbance on Thornton St. 0130: Officers responded to a report of a breaking & entering into a building on Bellingham Ave. 0247: Officers responded to…

Guest Op-Ed: Jail Should Not Equal Death

By Christopher Westfall COVID-19 has prompted our communities to widely adopt two practices to limit the spread of the virus: handwashing and social distancing. Yet Massachusetts not only discourages these public health precautions for incarcerated people, but also often makes…

Science Matters

By Jack Clarke  Either science matters or it doesn’t. Policy makers can’t have it both ways and selectively apply it only when it advances a political agenda. Science should inform and drive public policy not the other way around –…

Obituaries 04-29-2020

Richard Waugh, Sr. President of Waugh’s Garage Funeral Services were held privately due to the ongoing COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, for Richard A. “Dickie” Waugh, Sr., who passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 21 at the Elmhurst Healthcare in Melrose from natural…

COVID-19 Cases Approaching 700

Special to The Journal The City of Revere’s Emergency Response Team continues to take proactive steps to slow community transmission of COVID-19 and prepare for further spread of the virus. As of April 19, the Revere Board of Health has…