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Jeanne Rooney is the Editor in Chief for South Boston Online.
16 03, 2016

South Boston’s best bowlers: Sundays at the South Boston Yacht Club

2016-03-16T15:19:28-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on South Boston’s best bowlers: Sundays at the South Boston Yacht Club

By KEVIN DEVLIN The South Boston Special Kids and Young Adults program has a bowling league on Sundays at the South Boston Yacht Club. The members have a ball throwing the bowling balls down the alleys and competing against each other. All of the bowling league members wanted to wish everyone in South Boston a happy St. Patrick’s Day! The program’s annual bowling league banquet is scheduled for Sunday, May 15. Stay tuned for more pictures in May. Pictured at the yacht club (from left to right) are three serious bowlers, Terry, Sean and Jason. Pictured at the yacht club (from left) are three happy bowlers, Richie, Julie, and Suzanne. Pictured (from left) are program volunteers, Jennifer and Kellie, bowling [...]

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16 03, 2016

Annual Senior Salute strikes a celebratory note

2016-03-16T14:49:56-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on Annual Senior Salute strikes a celebratory note

By RICK WINTERSON Each year, the mayor of Boston’s office and the South Boston Citizens’ Association host the annual South Boston Senior Salute in St. Monica Hall. This is a noontime corned-beef-and-cabbage banquet to which all seniors are invited. This event ties into the St. Patrick “season” in South Boston, and is always well attended. This Year of Our Lord 2016 was no exception. Approximately 300 seniors showed up for the feast. It was a complete Irish banquet, including ample coffee and soda bread. Yes, it was the kind that had raisins in it – lots of them – but no caraway flavoring. After all, we didn’t want to start another Irish Civil War. There were many, many raffles, and even a brownie at the [...]

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16 03, 2016

St. Patrick’s Day parade route restored

2016-03-16T15:32:39-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Featured, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on St. Patrick’s Day parade route restored

On Tuesday, March 15, a U.S. District Court judge restored the 2016 parade’s original, longer route, allowing it to end in Andrew Square. South Boston’s Allied War Veterans Council held a final meeting Tuesday evening to assure maximum parade safety. The following morning, the USS McFaul (DDG-74), a guided missile cruiser with GE engines, docked; her crew will march in the parade. By RICK WINTERSON It has been quite a parade week so far. South Boston’s Allied War Veterans Council (by a 9-0 Supreme Court edict in 1994) owns the privilege and responsibility of presenting the annual St. Patrick’s/Evacuation Day Parade in South Boston. But after the council submitted its 2016 parade permit request in April of last year, City Hall’s licensing bureaucracy sat on the [...]

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16 03, 2016

South Boston Catholic Academy students study animals

2016-03-16T14:22:31-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on South Boston Catholic Academy students study animals

Over the past few months, these high achieving students in the Exceptional Learner Program at South Boston Catholic Academy have been working on an inquiry-based project to answer the question: Can these animals live in South Boston? After finding out what their animal eats and drinks, the climate it needs, and other key components to survival, the students made trifold posters and iPad presentations to teach about their animal. If the animal could not live in South Boston, the students had to think critically of adaptations they could make so the animal could live here. The students came up with very creative ideas, so do not be surprised if you see some unusual animals wandering around in South Boston! South Boston Catholic Academy is currently [...]

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16 03, 2016

Shamrock fundraiser packs Carson Place

2016-03-16T14:21:51-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on Shamrock fundraiser packs Carson Place

By KEVIN DEVLIN On Saturday evening, March 6, at Carson Place, close to 500 people attended the annual South Boston Special Kids and Young Adults annual fundraiser. Richie “Fish” Adams was presented with the Sissy Devine Award for his involvement in the SBBK. Adams goes to all the SBBK Monday night meetings, bowls every Sunday with the kids, attends SBBK trips, and is loved by all the kids who “flock around him.” SBBK volunteer Cheryl Flaherty greatly appreciated the support and generosity of all those who attended this fundraiser. “Sissy was a volunteer herself,” Flaherty wrote. “And her family honors her memory by presenting the award to someone who gives tirelessly of their time and really enjoys the kids. The SBBK volunteers show up every [...]

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16 03, 2016

Editorial: The three saints of winter

2018-11-27T13:06:36-05:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Editorial: The three saints of winter

By RICK WINTERSON This will be in part an editorial and in part kind of a social commentary. After our recent weather, you don’t need to be told that spring, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, has arrived. And we have a very special South Boston holiday weekend at hand. However you spend it (even watching a half-amputated parade on Sunday afternoon), St. Patrick’s Day will be a celebration. Last winter, we set a record for snow; this year, we’ve totaled only about half of our usual snowfall in South Boston. But no matter, because we have the assistance of three saints to get us through the wintry cold, darkness and frozen precipitation. The three saints, of course, are Nicholas, Valentine and Patrick. Nicholas, whose feast [...]

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16 03, 2016

South Boston Wins Cunniff hockey tournament

2016-03-17T11:57:52-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Sports|Comments Off on South Boston Wins Cunniff hockey tournament

By KEVIN DEVLIN Last weekend, the 13th annual John Cunniff Memorial Shamrock Tournament was held at the DCR Murphy Rink in South Boston. Four Pee Wee “A” teams – South Boston, the Cambridge Falcons, the Medford Mustangs, and the New England Predators – competed in this coveted tournament. South Boston defeated the New England Predators 1-0 in the championship game. This was only the second time that Southie took home the gold. Milton won in ’03, ‘04, and ’07. Dorchester won in ’05 and ’06. Duxbury won in ’08. Arlington won in ’09. The Conquistadors won in ’10 and ’12. Marblehead won in ’13 and the Terriers won in ’14. The rink was shut down last winter due to the weather and needed repairs. Southie [...]

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16 03, 2016

Cranberry Cafe celebrates 20 years

2016-03-16T14:10:45-04:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Cranberry Cafe celebrates 20 years

Cranberry Cafe turned 20 last Friday, March 11. This thriving, bustling cafe has been serving breakfast, lunches, and as its name implies, coffee - coffee, after Araban coffee. Cathe Walsh founded, owns and continues to operate Cranberry Café at 704 East Broadway. She’s shown above at the cafe’s counter, which is adorned by a Certificate of Recognition from City Hall and Mayor Martin J. Walsh. Cathe intentionally designed Cranberry Cafe to provide an intimate interior inside an instantly recognizable neighborhood landmark. Who knows what pleasant surprises you’ll find in the future, now that Cranberry Café has successfully passed through its adolescent years? -Rick Winterson

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11 03, 2016

Boys & Girls Club celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with annual luncheon

2016-03-14T15:52:13-04:00March 11th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Boys & Girls Club celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with annual luncheon

By RICK WINTERSON The South Boston Boys & Girls Club held its 40th annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon on Friday, March 11. It was an auspicious event – the weather, the location in the Westin Boston Waterfront’s “Laugh Boston Comedy Club,” an enthusiastic sell-out crowd, the upcoming Daylight Savings change, and of course, a corned beef and cabbage feast all combined to make a truly festive event. Twenty-four tables were filled to overflowing. Even the jokes from our elected officials garnered laughter. South Boston Clubhouse member Tara Murphy received a Boys & Girls Club “Youth of the Year” Award from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which was presented to her by Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry and Rep. Nick Collins. She was also the Luncheon’s keystone speaker. [...]

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9 03, 2016

South Boston swimmers participate in Shamrock Splash

2016-03-09T14:25:35-05:00March 9th, 2016|Categories: Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on South Boston swimmers participate in Shamrock Splash

By RICK WINTERSON Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a private, nonprofit that has devoted enormous effort to cleaning up the beaches in and around the City of Boston – coast to coast, from Nantasket to Nahant. And it has worked. The beaches of Boston are clean enough for swimming almost every day of the year, and the beaches of South Boston are the cleanest of all. Last Sunday, the nonprofit held a fundraising event at the Curley Community Center. It was the Harpoon “Shamrock Splash,” a polar plunge emceed by SHSB’s hard-working Bruce Berman, who took the plunge himself. Costumes were the order of the day. The photos above could not capture them all, but you get the idea.  There were lobsters, Picts, colleens, [...]

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