Photos: The 2016 St. Patrick’s Day parade
The 2016 St. Patrick's Day parade was on Sunday, March 20, 2016. The parade, organized by the Allied War Veteran's Council, was the traditional, three-mile route, rather than a proposed, abbreviated route. Photos by Rick Winterson and Kevin Devlin
‘We walk with Jesus’: Outdoor Way of the Cross travels through South Boston
By SUSAN DOUCET Leading a congregation of umbrella-toting parishioners, Peter Harrington, Maria Celeste Lara, Julio Lara, Phil Allison and Andrea Pena took turns carrying a large, wooden cross as they walked the streets of South Boston on Friday morning. The cross bearers, members of various South Boston churches, were just a few of the community members who commemorated Good Friday [...]
GE announces Fort Point property for its headquarters
By SOUTH BOSTON ONLINE STAFF General Electric is moving to Fort Point. GE announced the new location of its headquarters in a statement Thursday. The company will move to Necco Street, near Fort Point Channel and Summer Street. “The property is under agreement to be purchased from P&G and sits at the edge of its 44 acre South Boston campus—at [...]
South Boston Citizens’ Association holds Evacuation Day banquet
By RICK WINTERSON Officials from the South Boston Citizens’ Association local elected officials, mayors from Ireland, parade officials from the Allied War Veterans Council, South Boston sponsors of the banquet, guests of honor and SBCA award recipients, officers and crew members from the visiting USS McFaul (DDG-74), and many tables of honored guests gathered at the Convention Center last Friday, March [...]
The Casper Clan: Siblings enjoying sports, life in South Boston
By KEVIN DEVLIN Every time I have the opportunity to meet great parents and tremendously polite kids, I feel my life enriched, and the need to write their story, not an undertaking, but simply a pleasure. And this story isn’t any different, as I present the Casper Clan: Patricia, Frank, and Julia. Patricia, 8, is in the second grade at [...]
Sullivan’s Insurance Club captures men’s league hoop title
By KEVIN DEVLIN On Tuesday, March 15, at the Tynan Community Center gymnasium, the Sullivan Insurance Club defeated Sal’s Club, 54-42, to capture the 2016 South Boston Basketball Association winter league championship. In the end, too much height and offensive firepower stood in the way of Sal’s “Young Guns” to win it all. In the first half with the game [...]