2016 a Good Year at BPD Station C-6; Three Key Issues in 2017
by Rick Winterson Every key organization that serves the public should have goals for the coming year. Our own Station C-6 at 101 West Broadway near B Street is no exception. Station C-6’s Commander is Capt. Joseph Boyle; he views 2017 as an opportunity to address three key Community Policing areas: Quality-of-Life Issues, Property Crime, and Violent Crime. [...]
City of Boston Credit Union
City of Boston Credit Union Celebrates New Member Campaign with Kevin Chapman (City of Boston Credit Union, Boston, MA) – Recently City of Boston Credit Union kicked off a new advertising campaign featuring actual members as the talent. The members and their families were invited to a screening party at the Hard Rock Café, Boston emceed by the Credit Union’s [...]
South Boston Catholic Academy News
Spanish class at South Boston Catholic Academy is much more than learning the Spanish language, it is also about exposing the children to different Hispanic cultures, showing them how the Spanish varies from one region to another and from one country to another and colorful traditions, games and festivities that occur in Hispanic countries, children learn the differences we have [...]
Walking For Lovey
The first annual Stephanie Uftring Memorial Scholarship Walk took place on Saturday, November 5. Over one hundred walkers showed up at the Columbia Yacht Club to participate in this event while honoring the memory of this lovely lady. Stephanie Uftring was a lifelong South Boston resident who lost her battle to Colon Cancer in 2014. She was only 48 years [...]
Veterans Day Solemnly Observed
South Boston is a neighborhood that values its veterans. Highly. In a literal sense, there were Veterans Day observances all over South Boston. The Thomas J. Fitzgerald Post (VFW, #561) made its annual march, which formed up promptly 9:30 a.m. last Friday morning, November 11. Led by pipers, this march concluded at St. Brigid Church, where a Memorial Mass for [...]
MAYOR WALSH CELEBRATES VETERANS DAY AT THE GRAND OPENING FOR PATRIOT HOMES IN SOUTH BOSTON
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today joined Congressman Stephen Lynch, the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation and Caritas Communities, Inc. to celebrate the dedication and ribbon cutting for Patriot Homes in South Boston. The more than $12 million redevelopment of the former City of Boston D6 police station will create 24 new affordable apartments for veterans. "Our veterans who have [...]