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Jeanne Rooney is the Editor in Chief for South Boston Online.
27 04, 2016

South Boston Mites crowned Mayor’s Cup champions

2016-04-27T14:11:23-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Sports|Comments Off on South Boston Mites crowned Mayor’s Cup champions

By KEVIN DEVLIN and BOBBY MCGARRELL The South Boston Mites were named the champions of the inaugural Mayor’s Cup street hockey tournament that came to an end in Charlestown on Friday. They’re a talented group of kids and Coach Bobby McGarrell was proud of their performance. “Southie played tremendous,” McGarrell said, “with a great display of teamwork and effort. They imposed their will on each opponent and controlled each game from the opening faceoff.” Starting off, Southie defeated the Parkway Bruins, 6-1, in a resounding victory. The Southie team then cruised to victory against the South End team, 11-0. Next up was the unbeaten West Roxbury squad. Southie prevailed 6-3. In the championship final, Southie played West Roxbury again (who were their bracket winners). Southie jumped all [...]

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27 04, 2016

Meet Shawn McDonagh, the Curley Community Center’s new youth worker

2016-05-04T16:07:47-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on Meet Shawn McDonagh, the Curley Community Center’s new youth worker

By KEVIN DEVLIN I remember this young man when he was a kid playing basketball for the former Saint William’s CYO program in Savin Hill. Then I watched him coach CYO games for Saint William’s and also manage Little League teams at McConnell Park which is located adjacent to Savin Hill beach. After talking with him last week, it only solidified the positive impression I’ve held about him and know he’ll do a great job as the Curley Community Center’s new youth worker. His name is Shawn McDonagh. McDonagh grew up and still lives in Savin Hill. He is one of seven children and the father of two. He attended Don Bosco, but when the school closed he went to Trinity Catholic in Newton, which [...]

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27 04, 2016

Tynan Community Center hosts April vacation cookout

2016-04-27T14:10:33-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Happenings, Sports|Comments Off on Tynan Community Center hosts April vacation cookout

By KEVIN DEVLIN While children were home from school for April vacation last week, the Tynan Community Center kept many of them happily occupied. On Thursday afternoon, April 21, the Tynan staff held a wiffle ball tournament at the center’s gym. And while kids were competing in the wiffle ball tournament inside, others played Frisbee, Cam Jam and other games in the schoolyard area. Staff cooked hot dogs, sausages and hamburgers, and distributed ice cream, chips and drinks to the participants. The food was donated by the Tynan Council. The wiffle ball finals pitted Jonathan Walsh, Matt Hogan, and Cormac Lafferty, against Sean Collins, James Arlauskas, and Danny Potember. The game was tied 1-1 at the end of regulation play and went into extra innings. [...]

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27 04, 2016

Letter to the editor: Bring back elected school committee members

2018-11-27T13:06:36-05:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Letter to the editor: Bring back elected school committee members

Lately, all that we are hearing about are racial issues inside Boston Latin and all we see on the TV news is Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson, who chairs the City Council’s Education Committee. Back in the day, before they eliminated the elected school committee, issues such as this current one would have been dealt with by members of the elected school board. Parents would have applied pressure and the elected members would have held court. Parents back then had a voice, either on the original five-member citywide committee or the 13-member district/citywide committee. Today, Boston has a mayoral appointed Boston school committee. I see them on BNN-TV all the time, but when it comes to issues such as the ones at Boston Latin, it [...]

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27 04, 2016

Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

2016-04-27T14:10:00-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

Michaela Bavis welcomes you to Dew Luxe’s new location at 376 West Broadway, which she opened last weekend. The Best-of-Boston Dew Luxe is situated between E and F Street, next to the Lith Club on the left and the new Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation on the right. West Broadway has come alive again! The offerings at Dew Luxe are quite eclectic, so there really are two excellent reasons to make it a destination shop of your own: First, to get a good, general look at all that the newly spacious Dew Luxe offers; second (and more specifically) to go leather – shoes, handbags, and even elegant pet accessories. -Rick Winterson

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27 04, 2016

Boston Shines clean-up planned for South Boston this weekend

2016-04-27T14:09:39-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: News|Comments Off on Boston Shines clean-up planned for South Boston this weekend

As part of an annual effort to beautify the streets of Boston in time for the spring season, Mayor Martin J. Walsh has asked for Boston residents’ to participate in Boston Shines, a citywide initiative to clean the neighborhoods across the city. Boston Shines will bring together thousands of volunteers, including businesses, community groups and residents to clean up after the winter season. “The people of Boston take tremendous pride in their neighborhoods and over the next three weekends we will reach every corner of the city to make Boston even more beautiful,” said Mayor Walsh. “Boston Shines represents the great work that we can accomplish when we work together to improve the quality of life for our residents. I thank all the volunteers in [...]

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27 04, 2016

A run to honor, an honor to run: 5k remembers Massachusetts Marine

2016-04-27T14:09:15-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on A run to honor, an honor to run: 5k remembers Massachusetts Marine

The 15th Annual Boston Marine Corps Honor Run will be held Saturday, May 7, in honor of Marine Sgt. Daniel Vasselian of Abington, Mass. More than 1,500 people - including active-duty military, veterans from all branches of armed services, and local law enforcement groups - will gather at South Boston’s Carson Beach to run in honor of Sergeant Vasselian, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2013. This popular 5K road race, produced by Boston-based Conventures, Inc., is held to raise awareness for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Sgt. Daniel Vasselian was killed in action on Dec. 23, 2013 during Operation Enduring Freedom while assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He served [...]

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27 04, 2016

Signs of the real spring in South Boston

2016-04-27T14:08:56-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |Comments Off on Signs of the real spring in South Boston

By RICK WINTERSON The arrival of spring in South Boston is definitely spun out gradually (and graphically) by the northerly path of the sun, as sunsets become more or less centered upon Broadway for a couple of weeks. And with our main thoroughfares pointing west, accompanied by views from Dorchester Heights, the spring sunsets here are definitely worth a look. A long look. (Just don’t stare; it’s bad for your eyes. Use a polarizing filter, or glance at the setting sun quickly and only occasionally.) These sunsets happen in mid-April, almost a month after the vernal (spring) equinox on or around March 21. Perhaps they are rewards for what we did 240 years ago on that fateful Wednesday morning, April 19, 1775 - the first [...]

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27 04, 2016

OWLL performs staged reading at Franklin Park Zoo

2016-04-27T14:08:43-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on OWLL performs staged reading at Franklin Park Zoo

By RICK WINTERSON On With Living and Learning (OWLL) brings together underrepresented women and girls with teaching artists and human service professionals. Leadership workshops result in theater performances that focus on social justice issues. These serve as passageways to transforming and developing a community’s future. Mary Driscoll, the founder of On With Living and Learning. (Photo by Rick Winterson) OWLL was founded by Fort Point’s Mary Driscoll. A recent performance of “Humanity not Statistics”, written by Mary and directed by Tasia O. Jones, took place in a novel site – the Tropical Forest Pavilion at the Franklin Park Zoo. This was a staged reading, in collaboration with Sisterhood on the Move and Samuel Hurtado of South Boston en Accion, in memory of Marvin [...]

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27 04, 2016

Community members gather to learn about proposed Starbucks

2016-04-27T14:08:23-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |Comments Off on Community members gather to learn about proposed Starbucks

The crowd outside of 749 East Broadway (northwest corner of its intersection with L Street) early Monday evening was awaiting a meeting with the owner of a proposed new Starbucks at that location. Four Starbucks are located in South Boston now: three on the Waterfront and one at 11 West Broadway by Broadway Station. Ten or more other coffee shops are already located a few blocks from the L and Broadway intersection. In general, those gathered were firmly against opening a Starbucks there, due to potential traffic problems, a lack of neighborhood notification, and no perceived need for yet another coffee shop. No license has been granted yet. That’ll tentatively take place in City Hall on the morning of May 4. -Rick Winterson

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