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 [...]
Curing Cabin Fever: Big City Culture on a Budget
By Richard Campbell One of the things we try to do at South Boston Online is search out free events for citizens of the town to attend. Boston is blessed with some of the best cultural organizations in the world, though the price tag for attendance has gone up over the years. While the effort to make culture available freely [...]
CPNA Meeting – Zoning
by Rick Winterson All of the neighborhoods in the more residential areas of South Boston have civic organizations that look out for key issues and the well-being of their residents, as well as fostering social, “good neighbor” activities in their areas. There are seven of these civic organizations; they generally meet monthly. It is January of 2018. South Boston [...]