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  • BPS Recommendations for Excel High School

    Good Afternoon South Boston Civic Leaders and Community Members, Hope this finds you well. I am reaching out to share details regarding the recommendation to close Excel High School in South Boston. The district’s goal [...]

  • Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

    A  record-breaking 21 scholarships were awarded by the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund at its annual scholarship award ceremony Nov. 29 at the Curley Community Center. Twenty high school seniors and [...]

  • Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

    The Wild One Creative Lounge offers a fresh, engaging, and quiet space for people to connect and create. Located in the basement of Love Child, 364 W. Broadway, The Wild One provides visitors with a [...]

  • Elected Officials Opposition to BlueBikes Expansion in South Boston

    Dear Chief Franklin-Hodge and Commissioner Gove, We are writing to you today to express our concerns and opposition to the expansion of 7-14 BlueBikes stations in South Boston and the South Boston Waterfront. As we [...]

  • 28 Bluebike Stations in South Boston

    A presentation entitled “Bluebikes Open House” took place in the Tynan Community Center.  It was presented by Kim Foltz, the Senior Bike Share & Active Transportation Planner in the City of Boston’s so-called “Streets Cabinet”, [...]

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Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

A  record-breaking 21 scholarships were awarded by the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund at its annual scholarship award ceremony Nov. 29 at the Curley Community Center. Twenty high school seniors and one 8th-grader received the awards that included one non-degree scholarship for a trade school and one $5,000 Scholar-Athlete scholarship given in honor of late founder [...]

December 6th, 2024|

Elected Officials Opposition to BlueBikes Expansion in South Boston

Dear Chief Franklin-Hodge and Commissioner Gove, We are writing to you today to express our concerns and opposition to the expansion of 7-14 BlueBikes stations in South Boston and the South Boston Waterfront. As we understand it, earlier this year, the administration announced 100 new BlueBikes stations throughout the City. South Boston neighbors and civic groups have contacted us to [...]

November 20th, 2024|

Sports

PKL Already a Big ‘Dill’ in South Boston

March 10th, 2023|

By Ginger DeShaney PKL Boston is not just a pickleball facility. It’s a destination. A gathering place. A celebration waiting to happen.  “There’s somebody every day who is celebrating something and you get to be part of those moments,” said Katie Coakley, one of the owners of PKL at 64 C St. “That connection is [...]

All About Community

January 27th, 2023|

By Carol Masshardt Edward “Teddy” Cunniff has been involved with the Murphy Rink for forty-three years, and he is a man at home with both the past, and the opportunities of 2023. On a recent day, there were hundreds of young children and families, some with equal interest in snacks and skates, as Teddy held [...]

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Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

December 6th, 2024|

A  record-breaking 21 scholarships were awarded by the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund at its annual scholarship award ceremony Nov. 29 at the Curley Community Center. Twenty high school seniors and one 8th-grader received the awards that included one non-degree scholarship for a trade school and one $5,000 Scholar-Athlete scholarship given [...]

Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

November 29th, 2024|

The Wild One Creative Lounge offers a fresh, engaging, and quiet space for people to connect and create. Located in the basement of Love Child, 364 W. Broadway, The Wild One provides visitors with a unique creative escape from the ordinary. Guests can indulge in flower arranging, succulent garden creation, bracelet making, and other fun [...]

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Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

November 29th, 2024|

The Wild One Creative Lounge offers a fresh, engaging, and quiet space for people to connect and create. Located in the basement of Love Child, 364 W. Broadway, The Wild One provides visitors with a unique creative escape from the ordinary. Guests can indulge in flower arranging, succulent garden creation, bracelet making, and other fun [...]

“Sushi Guys” Opened

November 7th, 2024|

by Rick Winterson  It’s always a pleasure to welcome new enterprises to South Boston.  One of these, with the picturesque name of “Sushi Guys”, is an example.  Exactly a month ago, Sushi Guys opened for business at 283C Old Colony Boulevard, in a handsome new building along Old Colony on the block between Vinton and [...]

Editorial

Happy Thanksgiving

November 23rd, 2023|

You may not be aware of this, but our American Thanksgiving Day is unique in the world.  This is not to say that other countries are ungrateful for their blessings.  They certainly are grateful.  Instead, we claim that America was the very first nation to set aside an entire Holiday to say “Thanks”. It’s also [...]

American Veterans Day: November 11, 2023

November 11th, 2023|

Today, think of them as “Global Veterans”. Today November 11, all American veterans, living and dead, will be honored.  Thanks will be especially offered to all living veterans, who have served the United State honorably in war or in peace and who are still with us. There’ll be gatherings in veterans’ posts, governmental remembrances, and [...]

Happenings

Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

December 6th, 2024|

A  record-breaking 21 scholarships were awarded by the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund at its annual scholarship award ceremony Nov. 29 at the Curley Community Center. Twenty high school seniors and one 8th-grader received the awards that included one non-degree scholarship for a trade school and one $5,000 Scholar-Athlete scholarship given [...]

Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

November 29th, 2024|

The Wild One Creative Lounge offers a fresh, engaging, and quiet space for people to connect and create. Located in the basement of Love Child, 364 W. Broadway, The Wild One provides visitors with a unique creative escape from the ordinary. Guests can indulge in flower arranging, succulent garden creation, bracelet making, and other fun [...]

Real Estate

Summer Street Pilot Program Open House Meeting Tonight

July 8th, 2024|

SBTAP (the South Boston Transportation Action Plan) has the mission to improve traffic of all kinds in the central area of South Boston.  Last week, SBTAP held a community meeting and presented an initial list of draft recommendations to accomplish this.  Patrick Hoey, the Neighborhood Planning Director from the BTD (Boston Transportation Department) gave the [...]

South Boston Real Estate Recap: Interest Rates Cause Transaction Numbers to Plummet

January 23rd, 2023|

 By Ginger DeShaney  Interest rates are wreaking havoc on the real estate market. In South Boston, real estate transactions in 2022 were down 34 percent from 2021, but at the same time, median prices have increased, said a longtime South Boston realtor. In 2021, there were 933 transactions; in 2022, that number was down to [...]

South Boston Real Estate Market Recap: Year-to-Date Transactions Down but Prices Hold Steady

October 14th, 2022|

 By Ginger DeShaney The third quarter of 2022 held some local real estate market surprises. “Some things even surprised me,” said long-time South Boston realtor Jackie Rooney. “The big change is the number of sales is down 30%.” But the bigger surprise is that prices held through the year's first three quarters, although many of [...]

Dorchester Bay City – 2022 Update

February 1st, 2022|

by Rick Winterson For the past few years, a project entitled “Dorchester Bay City” (DBC) has been in the works – from initial exploratory discussions to the formation of development/construction organizations, and recently followed by the first property usage plans and proposed building designs.  Briefly, the DBC development agent is Accordia Partners, LLC; the DBC [...]

Dorchester Bay City – “Housing and Economic Development”

February 1st, 2022|

The second of four virtual meetings in 2022 concerning the proposed Dorchester Bay City project (the “DBC”) took place via ZOOM on Thursday, January 20, from 6 to 8 p.m.  The two key topics discussed were housing, followed by economic development, with particular emphases on affordable housing and jobs that would become available as DBC [...]

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