Cranberry Cafe celebrates 20 years
Cranberry Cafe turned 20 last Friday, March 11. This thriving, bustling cafe has been serving breakfast, lunches, and as its name implies, coffee - coffee, after Araban coffee. Cathe Walsh founded, owns and continues to operate Cranberry Café at 704 East Broadway. She’s shown above at the cafe’s counter, which is adorned by a Certificate of Recognition from City Hall [...]
Boys & Girls Club celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with annual luncheon
By RICK WINTERSON The South Boston Boys & Girls Club held its 40th annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon on Friday, March 11. It was an auspicious event – the weather, the location in the Westin Boston Waterfront’s “Laugh Boston Comedy Club,” an enthusiastic sell-out crowd, the upcoming Daylight Savings change, and of course, a corned beef and cabbage feast all [...]
South Boston swimmers participate in Shamrock Splash
By RICK WINTERSON Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a private, nonprofit that has devoted enormous effort to cleaning up the beaches in and around the City of Boston – coast to coast, from Nantasket to Nahant. And it has worked. The beaches of Boston are clean enough for swimming almost every day of the year, and the beaches of [...]
Letters to the editor: Residents respond to parade route change
Following the announcement at the end of February that this year's St. Patrick's Day and Evacuation Day parade did not receive approval from the city for its intended and traditional three-mile route, South Boston Online readers reacted with speed and strong words. Below are a series of letters to the editor - nearly all of them against the abbreviated parade [...]
Kevin Ryan to receive John W. McCormack Award
South Boston Citizens’ Association President Tom McGrath is pleased to announce that Kevin Ryan has been chosen to receive the John W. McCormack Award at the South Boston Citizens’ Association’s 136th Annual Evacuation Day Banquet, March 18. “It is an honor for the association to present this award to Kevin for his countless contributions to the betterment of South Boston, [...]
Carefree Sunday afternoon at Bowlarama
By KEVIN DEVLIN In celebration of Evacuation week festivities in South Boston, on Sunday, March 6, enthusiastic bowlers journeyed up to the South Boston Bowlarama on East Broadway to enjoy an afternoon of bowling and fun with friends. This annual bowling event, free to the adult-public, is sponsored by the South Boston Citizens’ Association. Representatives from the association - Cheryl [...]