South Boston Little League holds opening ceremonies
On Sunday, May 1, the South Boston Little League held its opening ceremonies at Evans Field adjacent to the Murphy Rink. Players, parents, managers, and league officials gathered together to acknowledge the beginning of the South Boston Little League baseball season. The rain held off and everyone had an opportunity to say hello and get pumped up for the 2016 [...]
Softball league opens season
By KAY FORDE On Thursday evening, April 28, the South Boston Girls’ Softball League conducted its opening night ceremony at the Shore Road softball field next to the Murphy Rink. It was cold and a bit windy but the players, managers and parents enjoyed the event. Sponsored by the league, the Sausage Man was on hand cooking hot dogs and [...]
Tierney Center employees perform CPR, save child’s life
By KEVIN DEVLIN We’ve read so many sad stories in the news that many people have become immune to the heartache that people suffer as a consequence. But this story is an emotionally uplifting one with a happy ending that all can empathize with, and cheer, as life goes on. On Tuesday, April 19, Joseph M. Tierney Center site coordinator, [...]
Artists for Humanity announces expansion
By RICK WINTERSON The Artists for Humanity’s EpiCenter will expand by more than twice its current size in less than two years, the South Boston center, city officials and private business leaders announced Monday morning. The reception to announce the expanded EpiCenter Building on A and Second Streets was a joyful celebration. Susan Rodgerson, the founder and executive/artistic director of [...]
Local naturalist to detail South Boston’s ‘unnoticed nature’
By RICK WINTERSON There are two stories here: To begin with, a staunch South Bostonian named Marjorie M. Gibbons endowed an annual series of lectures to be given in her memory at the South Boston Branch Library. These have taken place in the spring of each year since 1981; the 36th Annual Gibbons Lecture is at hand. It will be [...]
Recent exhibition openings and closings in South Boston
By RICK WINTERSON Saturday, April 16, was the closing day for three exhibitions in South Boston. It has become a custom in local galleries to mark these closings with what might be termed “retrospective celebrations.” Medicine Wheel’s Spoke Gallery closed out its most recent show, expertly curated by South Boston’s Kathy Bitetti. The exhibition was named “On the Line.” (It [...]