Career Profile: Nursing Professionals in Demand
By Richard Campbell Students searching for a professional career that is near recession proof need look no further than the piping hot nursing field. Massachusetts is projected as one of ten states accounting for half the total job growth in this sector in the nation, with the profession is sitting upon an expected job growth at 16% between now and [...]
Gate of Heaven School Building to Be Demolished
by Rick Winterson By now, you’ll have heard that a decision has been made concerning the Gate of Heaven School building, on East Fourth Street next to the Church. It is to be completely demolished. The demolition will begin this coming spring, and will be completed later in this year of 2018. Most of the “footprint” now occupied [...]
New England International Auto Show Opens
By Richard Campbell The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in the Seaport hosted the 2018 New England International Auto Show with the theme Driving the Future featuring a polished consumer centered vehicle line up with a few extra frills. In the standard issue cars Toyota seemed to own the floor in demonstrations and displays revealing it’s Olympic branded RAV4 and the usual [...]
Your Roving Reporter in England
by the Roving Reporter Your Roving Reporter took a trip to see his grandchildren in England during the “first to the seventh Days of Christmas”. The trip began with the traditional English Boxing Day dinner and celebration on December 26. Boxing Day originated as a way to reward servants who worked serving their masters on Christmas Day itself. [...]
The Snowstorm: A Commentary
by Rick Winterson The recent snowstorm was quite a storm – no doubt about that. It combined three serious and forceful conditions at more or less exactly the same time. The intensity of the snowfall was remarkable – up to three inches of fall per hour on Thursday afternoon, which created essentially white-out conditions. This continued into Friday [...]
South Boston Catholic Academy Grade 4 News!
Students in Grade 4A at South Boston Catholic Academy listened to J. K. Rowling’s detailed and graphic description of Diagon Alley. Students then took what they heard and used it to draw what they imagined Diagon Alley would look like. The 4B students participated in a genre study of Biography. By reading many examples of high-quality biographies and sharing [...]