Yearly Archives: 2016

South Boston Citizens’ Association President Tom McGrath is pleased to announce that Kevin Ryan has been chosen to receive the John W. McCormack Award at the South Boston Citizens’ Association’s 136th Annual Evacuation Day Banquet, March 18. “It is an honor for the association to present this award to Kevin for his countless contributions to the betterment of South Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States for well over 30 years,” McGrath said. In 1982, Kevin Ryan moved to Washington, D.C. with the assistance of then Congressman Joe Moakley to work at the U.S. House of Representatives Post Office. In 1983, Moakley appointed Ryan to work as a legislative assistant on the Subcommittee on the Rules of the House. In 1989, after Congressman [...]

South Boston Citizens’ Association president Tom McGrath has announced the association’s 2016 recipients of the James M. “Jimmy” Kelly Shamrock Award for Community Service. One of the 2016 Shamrock Awards will be presented to Patty McCormick, for her selfless efforts in aiding those in need and pitching in at the drop of a hat, for any benefit or worthy cause in the town. Patty is a lifelong resident of South Boston, and for the past 25 years a proud resident of Andrew Square. Patty is a 37 year employee of the South Boston Boys & Girls Club. Her most recent accomplishment at the club is working on the Capital Campaign that resulted in an $11.3 million renovation of the Clubhouse on the corner of “F” [...]

Massachusetts was one of a dozen states that voted in primary elections or caucuses on Tuesday, March 1 - Super Tuesday. The state results were largely as predicted by numerous polls: Donald Trump won the Republican primary and Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary. Locally, this held true as well. Trump and Clinton were overwhelmingly the most popular candidates on the Republican and Democratic ballots, respectively, in South Boston. In South Boston (Wards 6 and 7 in Boston), 8,065 Democratic votes were cast and 2,975 Republican votes were cast in the primary earlier this week. On the Democratic side, Clinton received 51.57 percent of South Boston's Democratic votes, while Sen. Bernie Sanders received 45.63 percent. The remaining percent of Democratic votes went to former Maryland governor [...]

On Thursday, Feb. 11, some of South Boston Catholic Academy’s best and brightest engaged in a tenacious edition of Catholic Trivia before a live studio audience of teachers, peers and parents.  Knowing that “As iron sharpens iron, one person sharpens another,” these 20 students took this small competition to grow in faith, knowledge, and mutual respect of one another (Proverbs 27:17). Four teams, each with a representative from Grades 2-6, faced a flurry of questions about the Scriptures, the Mass, the Saints, and everyone’s favorite topic, Popes Francis and Benedict XVI. Declaring a victor proved to be difficult; each team was filled with poised and intelligent competitors. What was easy to see, however, was the sure joy brought to each participant and spectator, brought together [...]

To fifth grade teacher Ms. Doyle for working for over a year on winning a grant to pilot a history program where the children learn from actual historical figures relaying information in the first person - and to the fifth grade students who remain riveted during these lessons!   To fifth grade student Darius Spriggs in Mr. Durney’s classroom who has been working with Mrs. Wyse on math assessments for his portfolio. Each session Darius gives his best effort to make sure his work is done neatly and correctly. He is a good role model for the other students in the group!   To K2 student Riley Coughlin in Ms. Flores room for trying her best to slow down while [...]

By KEVIN DEVLIN  Recently, the South Boston Neighborhood House - aka the Ollie - started recognizing its youngsters by announcing “Student Spotlight” winners. Young members are recognized for their good behavior, being kind, caring and considerate, sharing, as well as just being good kids overall. Two youngsters are picked during the month and their pictures are hung up in one of the classrooms. Wence Otieno was one of the youngsters recognized for this achievement in February. Wence, 6, is the son of Selesa Obudho. He has an older sister, Aunnie, and a younger brother, Nicholas. He is in the first grade at the Tynan Elementary School in South Boston. His favorite subject is reading (he loves the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) and someday [...]