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In Ms. Emily’s PreK class - Lieutenant Tommy Cherry of Ladder 24 visited his son’s classroom at South Boston Catholic Academy. He was a special mystery reader, showed the children his fire gear and taught them all about fire safety. Ms. Kristen’s and Ms. Molly’s PreK classes were joined by Mrs. Donavan’s and Ms. Rice’s Third Graders for Friday Afternoon Book Buddies! Both Third Grades are paired with a PreK partner to read books and play with them, too. Each week the Third Grade students are so excited to meet with and "teach" their Book Buddies in PreK about reading and the PreK students are so happy to see their Book Buddies. In Ms. Samantha’s PreK class - Boston Police Officers, Allison Lane and Casey [...]

As the school year comes to a close, Excel High School held two events in the past week.  Sports Night took place on Thursday evening, May 31 in the school assembly hall.  The various teams and coaches were called to the stage by Mr. Brandon Arthur and other staff members and presented awards and certificates.  The annual Knight Award for overall excellence was presented to senior Claudia Camacho.  The students and staff gave a hearty round of applause to Headmaster Stephanie Sibley as she ends six years leading the school.  She was presented a framed jersey.  The prom took place on Friday evening, June 1 at Lombardos in Randolph.  Many car-pooled in long dresses and tuxedos, arriving around 7 p.m. for an evening of dinner and dancing [...]

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay awarded more than $55,000 in Better Beaches Program Grants to support more than 40 free beach events and activities on the Boston Harbor region’s public beaches this summer in a ceremony on Boston’s Fish Pier on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017. Among the 27 organizations from Nahant to Nantasket that received grants this year were five with programs in South Boston. BCYF Curley Community Center received $3500 for the Curley Community Center Summer Series, Mass Kiting received $1000 for the 3rd Annual International Kite Surfing Film Festival, South Boston Neighborhood House received $3500 for Family Fun Nights on the Beach and Olliepalooza, Greater Boston YMCA received $2500 for free swimming lessons at Carson Beach, and YES received $1767 for their program Outdoor Adventure: [...]

by Rick Winterson An important issue has been simmering in South Boston for a long time. It was emphatically brought into the open earlier this year of 2017 at a meeting of the South Boston Association of Non-Profits (SBANP). The members of SBANP spoke loudly and clearly that “Trauma” – especially childhood trauma – should become an essential focus of the SBANP mission here in South Boston. You may well ask how much of an effect trauma has on South Boston’s young people. From a non-medical, lay person’s standpoint, an accurate, meaningful answer is “a lot!” Poverty, violence, lack of good parenting, and neighborhood bullying can all be traumatic to children. And no one in South Boston has to be told that we have substance [...]

by Rick Winterson Last Sunday, May 28, the Thomas F. Fitzgerald Post, VFW No. 561 (Veterans of Foreign Wars) conducted its annual Memorial Day ceremony. This involved a solemn laying of the 2017 ceremonial wreath at the South Boston Vietnam Memorial - the nation’s first such memorial – in Medal of Honor (M Street) Park. The event was led by Ed Flynn, Commander of the Post. Occurring exactly 100 years after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, it seemed that this year’s wreath laying was especially significant. World War I was called “The war to end all wars” soon after it ended. In part, this was due to many weapons of war that were used for the first time – gas warfare, the [...]