Mayor Brian M. Arrigo announced the appointments of Maritsa Barros as the first Chief of Talent and Culture for the City of Revere and Claudia Correa as the new Director of Human Resources. Maritsa Barrospreviously served as Framingham’s inaugural Chief…
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Senator-Elect Lydia Edwards to be Inaugurated January 20
Senator-Elect Lydia Edwards will be sworn in to the Massachusetts Senate on Thursday, January 20th at 12:00 pm. Members of the Edwards family will join the Senator-Elect in person. Due to COVID-19 protocols, the event will have extremely limited in-person…
Baker-Polito Administration Files $5 Billion General Government Bond Bill
The Baker-Polito Administration filed legislation seeking $4.991 billion in capital funds to support core improvements that will enable the Commonwealth to continue delivering critical state services to the people of Massachusetts. The proposal, titled An Act Financing the General Governmental…
Mayor Michelle Wu: Grace Under Pressure
The job of mayor of a large American city never has been easy, but these days the challenges facing our public officials who lead our major metropolitan areas are greater than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a confluence of…
Lydia Edwards becomes Senator-Elect Edwards following election
Yesterday, voters in Revere and the rest of the First Suffolk & Middlesex district went to the polls and elected City Councilor Lydia Edwards to serve as their next state senator. Once sworn in Edwards will become the first woman…
2021 Year in Review
The old expression, “The more things change, the more they remain the same,†certainly seemed to sum up the year 2021 in Everett. The news at the beginning of the year was that COVID was devastating the Everett community with…
Arrigo Targets ARPA Funds for Revere Homeowners
Special to the Journal In a letter to Revere taxpayers, Mayor Arrigo announced the City of Revere ARPA Housing Assistance Program – an ARPA-funded initiative to grant $250 payments to owner-occupied properties to address rising housing costs. The program will…
RHS Building Committee Expected to Chose New High School Site Next Month
Earlier this month the Revere High School Building Committee voted to narrow down site options for building of a new Revere High School to two potential sites in the city. At last Tuesday’s Revere School Committee meeting Brian Dakin, a…
News Briefs
Postal Service Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day Post Office locations nationwide will be closed on Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec. 25, and New Year’s Day, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. All Post Office locations will be open, and regular mail…
Three Community-Based Organizations Receive Grants Through Raise up Revere Fund
Special to the Journal Last week, Mayor Arrigo and representatives from both Amazon and United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley presented three grant awards to community-based organizations who continue to go above and beyond for Revere residents. The…
Obituaries 12-22-2021
Beverly Daigle Former Bartender at DeMaino’s Restaurant and the ITAM Post Family and friends are invited to attend Visiting Hours on Thursday, December 23 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals, 773 Broadway (Rt.…
‘Tis the Season for Giving — and Never Has the Need Been More Urgent
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.†— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. With Christmas fast approaching, most of us will be rushing about — either to the stores and malls or on-line…
Letter to the Editor
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…
Lt. Gov Polito Presents MassWorks Infrastructure Program Grant to City
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Ashley Stolba came to Revere Tuesday to present a MassWorks Infrastructure Program design grant of $750,000 to the city that will help reconfigure the area near Redgate’s proposed residential and …
And Then There Were Two: RHS Building Committee Narrows Down Potential Sites to Two
At a recent virtual meeting of the Revere High School Building Committee, committee members voted 9-1 to narrow down site options for building of a new Revere High School to only two potential sites in the city. At the meeting…
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…
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…
Edwards Endorsed by State Senators and Representatives
Special to the Times Recently, Lydia Edwards was endorsed by a group of State Representatives and State Senators, joining the long list of elected officials who support her campaign for State Senate representing the First Suffolk and Middlesex District. View…
Guest Op-Ed: Real Estate Trends — November 2021
By Maureen Celata Just as predicted in my September 2021 article the real estate market is showing signs of price adjustments and some inventories are sitting on the market a little bit longer. Prices are slightly lower than their peak…
Board of Assessors Discuss New Tax Rate With City Council
Revere Board of Assessors Chair Dana Brangiforte and Assessors John Verrengia and Mathew McGrath appeared at a City Council hearing Monday night to discuss the adoption of the proposed Fiscal Year 2022 tax rate. Brangiforte said the proposed new residential…
