17th Annual Street Festival
Since 2000 A.D., South Boston has been blessed with a Street Festival in September. Non-stop entertainment, many civic groups, 100 merchants, and thousands of spectators have made it into a traditional “Southie time”. Last Saturday, September 17, was no exception. The entertainment deserves special mention, including the Woods School of Irish Dance, Ultimate Self Defense, and Miss Linda’s School of [...]
Laboure Center Offers After School Tutoring
Youth Tutoring Youth (YTY) will begin this year on October 11th. Laboure is currently enrolling students in grades 3-5 in their free fun after school program that runs from 3:00-6:00 pm Monday-Thursday. Laboure is also hiring youth for our Teen Leader tutoring positions. We are interviewing academically talented teens ages 15-18 who are interested in working with children in the [...]
Simon of Cyrene Breakfast
John Healey entertains the large crowd. State Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry and Sr. Peggy Youngclaus address thecrowd at the annual breakfast.
Massport Helps Kids Back to School
Some 35 children served by South Boston’s Tierney Center started school with a new backpack full of school supplies and new clothes provided by Massport. This is the 9th year that Massport has partnered with programs in South Boston and East Boston to support families at the start of school year.
Need Help with a Drug Problem? Call 311. Right Away!
South Boston Online has published a series of articles on the severe drug problems in South Boston – 17 such articles actually, from the fall of last year to the spring of 2016. These articles have been somber and even outright tragic in nature. But now, another way to obtain help is here. The City of Boston, led by [...]
Vietnam Memorial at 35
by Rick Winterson In the late ‘70s, support was increasing in South Boston to erect a formal memorial of some kind, dedicated to those 25 heroic men from South Boston who lost their lives in Vietnam. It wasn’t only from the friends and relatives of those brave military men – it was a community-wide sentiment. Concerned residents went to [...]