This year’s tax list issued by the Office of the Collector of Taxes – that is – the list of those who have not paid their taxes which appeared in last week’s Journal, was larger than last year’s. This comes as no surprise. While we hear day to day reports of good corporate earnings...
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Above and Beyond: Great Job, Officers Lopez and LaRosa
Two Revere police officers were recently honored for saving the life of a man trapped in a burning car on Brown Circle last April. Officers Angel Lopez and Louis LaRosa put their lives on the line entering the burning vehicle and extricating the man about to be burnt to death in it. They saved...
Police Briefs 07-06-2011
Monday, June 27 Michael Lewis, 35, of Malden was arrested on one warrant. Tuesday, June 28 Nicole Deconinck, 22, homeless of Revere, was arrested on four warrants. Eric Kramer, 45, of Lynn, was charged with malicious destruction of property over $250. Wednesday, June 29 Scott Harris, 25, of Cambridge, was charged with receiving or...
Obituaries 07-06-2011
Lloyd Marcom Truck Driver, Past Exalted Ruler Revere BPOE Elks Lloyd G. Marcom of Revere died peacefully at home on July 2 following a long and valiant battle with metastatic lung cancer surrounded by the love and affection of his family. He was 73 years old. Born and raised in Rose Hills, Virginia, he...
Go for it: When it Comes to Wonderland, here’s Top Hoping the Developer Thinkss Big
The new parking garage going up at Wonderland is what it took to save an entire mixed use development of gargantuan potential. The Eurovest Company has emerged intact from the national recession. Eurovest is the local company developing the Ocean Avenue acreage, which began its efforts to raise money and to create the proper...
Police Briefs 06-29-2011
MONDAY, JUNE 20 Franklin Echevarria, 24, listed as homeless, was arrested on outstanding warrants. Charles J. Munzing, 58, of Saugus, was arrested on outstanding warrants. TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Brian B. Gahagan, 45, of 524 Park Ave., was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Michael F. Moore, 29, of Boston, was arrested on an outstanding warrant....
Obituaries 06-29-2011
Agnes Murphy Office Manager for DiStasio Dental Associates of Revere Agnes M. (Dillon) Murphy, formerly of Revere, died on June 24 at the Colonial Poplin Nursing Home in Fremont, NH. She was in her 90th year. Born in Chelsea, she was raised and educated in Revere and was a 1939 graduate of Immaculate Conception...
Five Minus One: Bonura Drops Out
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] The crowded Ward 5 race has thinned out a little this week as challenger Joanne Bonura backed out of the race on Tuesday despite collecting her signatures and taking out her papers. Bonura – who lives in the Jack Satter House – cited health/energy issues and funding issues as her...
Carrying On:Revere-Winthrop Pediatrics continues track record of excellent Care
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] Revere-Winthrop Pediatrics at 280 Beach St. has been in practice for more than three and despite a minor name change, it’s still practicing the same thing – excellent care for kids. Dr. Janet Chua has assumed the duties of lead physician in the practice and indicated that they are pretty...
Tensions on the Beach Rise as Business Booms
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] The Revere License Commission delivered a stern warning to Antonia’s on the Beach last week, but steered clear of issuing any discipline for what neighbors say is repeatedly loud music that disrupts their lives. For years, residents of the Beach had little to complain about because Revere Beach wasn’t exactly...
E-mails Sent to the State, City Council Discusses Issue
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] Mayor Tom Ambrosino and City Solicitor Paul Capizzi indicated that Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) has requested information regarding the use of city computers for political purposes and will be requesting more information in regards to the e-mail situation – which allegedly featured several department heads actively using...
Global Planning?
By Seth Daniel [email protected] The Chelsea Creek waterfront in Revere is a forgotten entity for most in the City, but it has garnered some attention lately as one of the long-time oil companies on the Creek has presented a bold new plan. That plan involves bringing in hundreds of millions of gallons of...
Police Briefs 06-22-2011
TUESDAY, JUNE 14 Kevin M. Boyce, 44, of 53 Reservoir Ave., was arrested on charges of illegal possession of a Class D controlled narcotic substance with intent to distribute and violating the drug free school zone laws. Helen Espinoza, 24, of Chelsea, was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the...
Celebrate Good Times: City has Responded to Challenges
During the past ten years, the city of Revere has had a tremendous influx of new residents coming into the city. The population went up by over 5,000. These new residents have placed pressure on police, fire, educational and public health systems and all municipal services in general. To that end, the city has...
Summer Arrives: Things are happening all around us
What is better than the summer arriving in a beach city like ours? We wait for it all winter. We wonder about it and what it will be like – and then it comes, and passes, just like that. Like the snap of a finger. Tuesday was the first day of summer, a moment...
Weathers Named Offensive MVP of Annual Shriners Football Classic
RHS product leads North to victory By Cary Shuman [email protected] Trae Weathers may have his Revere High School diploma in hand, but he’s still representing the football program in glorious fashion. Weathers, an All-Scholastic player in the 2011 season, was selected the Offensive Most Valuable Player for the North team in the Shriners Football...
Obituaries 06-22-2011
Rose DeYeso Lifelong Revere resident Rose M. (Moscaritolo) DeYeso, a lifelong resident of Revere, died at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on June 20 following a brief illness. She was 97 years old. Born, raised and educated in Revere, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, daughter, sister and aunt. Mrs....
Officials Keep a Close Watch on Global Project But much is Still to be Learned about plan
By Seth Daniel [email protected] Federal railroad officials are keeping a close eye on Global Oil’s proposal to bring Ethanol trains to its Revere terminal on Chelsea Creek, but they also said they still don’t know much about the details. “We have been monitoring developments closely and have had meetings with the State Fire Marshal’s...
Retiring RHS Teacher Honored for Three Decades of Service
JFYNetWorks honored David Colella, special education teacher at Revere High school for his 34 years of teaching, recently in a ceremony at the State House. Keynote speaker Tom Vander Ark, a longtime national leader in education reform, commended Colella for being in the vanguard of the technology revolution in education. “Personal digital learning is...
A Head’s Up Discovery Statue Recovered by Revere Police
-By Seth Daniel [email protected] The dank garage on Yeamans Street was littered with beer and soda cans and various vestiges from years past – now in storage and long forgotten. Revere Police Det. Doug Zingali cut the lock on the front of the little storage garage, and entered into the lair late Sunday afternoon....
