Annual Senior Salute strikes a celebratory note
By RICK WINTERSON Each year, the mayor of Boston’s office and the South Boston Citizens’ Association host the annual South Boston Senior Salute in St. Monica Hall. This is a noontime corned-beef-and-cabbage banquet to which all seniors are invited. This event ties into the St. Patrick “season” in South Boston, and is always well attended. This Year of Our Lord [...]
St. Patrick’s Day parade route restored
On Tuesday, March 15, a U.S. District Court judge restored the 2016 parade’s original, longer route, allowing it to end in Andrew Square. South Boston’s Allied War Veterans Council held a final meeting Tuesday evening to assure maximum parade safety. The following morning, the USS McFaul (DDG-74), a guided missile cruiser with GE engines, docked; her crew will march in [...]
South Boston Catholic Academy students study animals
Over the past few months, these high achieving students in the Exceptional Learner Program at South Boston Catholic Academy have been working on an inquiry-based project to answer the question: Can these animals live in South Boston? After finding out what their animal eats and drinks, the climate it needs, and other key components to survival, the students made trifold [...]
Shamrock fundraiser packs Carson Place
By KEVIN DEVLIN On Saturday evening, March 6, at Carson Place, close to 500 people attended the annual South Boston Special Kids and Young Adults annual fundraiser. Richie “Fish” Adams was presented with the Sissy Devine Award for his involvement in the SBBK. Adams goes to all the SBBK Monday night meetings, bowls every Sunday with the kids, attends SBBK [...]
Editorial: The three saints of winter
By RICK WINTERSON This will be in part an editorial and in part kind of a social commentary. After our recent weather, you don’t need to be told that spring, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, has arrived. And we have a very special South Boston holiday weekend at hand. However you spend it (even watching a half-amputated parade on Sunday [...]
South Boston Wins Cunniff hockey tournament
By KEVIN DEVLIN Last weekend, the 13th annual John Cunniff Memorial Shamrock Tournament was held at the DCR Murphy Rink in South Boston. Four Pee Wee “A” teams – South Boston, the Cambridge Falcons, the Medford Mustangs, and the New England Predators – competed in this coveted tournament. South Boston defeated the New England Predators 1-0 in the championship game. [...]