Three months after the School Committee, the School Building Committee and the Revere City Council voted to recommend the former Wonderland Dogtrack as the preferred site for a new Revere High School (RHS), the project has hit another benchmark. At…
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Revere Public Library Will Host Mother’s Day Tea Party May 6
The Revere Public Library, led by Library Director Diana Luongo and Children’s Librarian Krystee Maniscalco, will host a Mother’s Day Tea Party on Friday, May 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Library. Parents and children are cordially…
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
Turco Will Seek Re-Election as State Rep.
Jeff Turco has announced that he will be a candidate for re-election to the state representative seat in the 19th Suffolk District this fall. Turco was sworn in by Gov. Charlie Baker on April 7, 2021, after winning a special…
A Historic Donation
Viscay Offers Plans for ARPA Funds Distribution Travel and Tourism Office to Be Launched
The Revere Sand Sculpting Festival is already in a class by itself, annually drawing one million visitors to the city, before the pandemic wreaked havoc on all public events over the past two years. But there is more exciting news…
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…
Popeye’s Restaurant Hopes to Land on Squire Road
“Chicken sandwich, anyone?†And thus, began well-known Revere attorney Gerry D’Ambrosio’s presentation about a new fast-food restaurant being proposed at 304 Squire Road. “I’m here tonight on behalf of Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, the applicant in this matter,†said D’Ambrosio. “We’re…
City Planner Stringi Briefs Council on New State Zoning Act
City Planner Frank Stringi informed the Council of Revere’s status in relation to the adoption of Section 3A, which is the new State Zoning Act. “The purpose of Section 3A is to encourage MBTA communities (such as Revere) to adopt…
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…
Council Approves Three Motions from Rotondo
The City Council approved three motions offered by Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo at Monday night’s meeting. Rotondo motions were as follows: • A request that Mayor Brian Arrigo provide the City Council with all demographic data points by census block; •…
