New Grant Opportunity to Advance District Attorneys’ Safer Communities Initiative The Baker-Polito Administration is pleased to announce a new competitive grant opportunity, which will award approximately $1 Million to support programs that will enhance community safety through crime reduction and…
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Celebrating Iftar at the Senior Center
By Asmaa Abou-Fouda and Edward Deveau On Friday April 29th, approximately one hundred Muslim and non-Muslim members of our community came together at the Rosetti-Cowan Senior Center to learn about Ramadan and to participate in the joyful and culinary event…
More Change Coming to Broadway: ZBA Approves Variances to Tear Down Old Moose Lodge, Expand Office Space
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…
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…
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…
Council Approves New Appointments to City Boards
A Historic Donation
Traffic Commission Tackles Busy Agenda
The Revere Traffic Commission held a regular meeting last Thursday, April 21, in the City Councilor Joseph A. Del Grosso Council Chambers at Revere City Hall. City Planner Frank Stringi chaired the meeting that was attended by fellow members City…
News Brief
John T. DiLiegro Foundation Hosts First Annual 5K This Sunday, May 1,the John T. DiLiegro Foundation will host the First Annual John T. DiLiegro Foundation 5K to benefit Glioblastoma brain cancer research. The run will take place beginning at 8AM…
Arrigo and the Revere DPCD Distribute $380,000 in CDBG Funds to 38 Small Businesses Throughout City
Over the next few weeks, Mayor Brian Arrigo and The City of Revere Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) will distribute $380,000 in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to 38 small business owners who operate in the City of…
Cogliandro: Let’s See the Videotape on HRC Matter
Ward 3 Councillor Anthony Cogliandro wants to see the videotape of a verbal exchange between Revere resident Gina Castiello and a member of the Revere Human Rights Commission that allegedly occurred following an HRC meeting on Dec. 2, 2021. Cogliandro,…
License Commission Grants License for Park N Go Operation
The Revere License Commission took up a full agenda of items at its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, April 20, in the City Council Chamber. Chairman Robert Selevitch and fellow commission members Daniel Occena and Linda Guinasso were on hand…
