17th Annual Boston Marine Corps Honor Run 5K to honor Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo
A Run to Honor … An Honor to Run Race date: Saturday, May 5, 2018 The 17th Annual Boston Marine Corps Honor Run will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2018 in honor of Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Arredondo of Randolph, MA. More than 1,500 people - including active-duty military, veterans from all branches of armed services, and [...]
Fort Point Business Community Tours IDB
by Rick Winterson South Boston Online was invited to take part in a recent tour of the newly entitled “Innovation and Design Building”, now commonly known as the “IDB”. The tour was arranged and sponsored by the Friends of Fort Point Channel (the FFPC), headed by Rachel Borgatti, its Executive Director. Early on Thursday morning, April 12, approximately [...]
REVIEW: House of Siam Reaches 20
by Rick Winterson His full Thai name is Banjongyuvayong Yuvayongdee, but he is known around here as Joe Thailand, although he could now be called Joe America since receiving his U.S. citizenship seven years ago. A still youthful looking Joe Thailand has been a Boston restaurateur for 33 years, starting with his first House of Siam in Copley Square [...]
Café Porto Bello: Still the Best Italian Deal in Southie
By Richard Campbell After reviewing some of the new guns in the South Boston restaurant scene, I was recently tempted back to an old favorite: Café Porto Bello. Friends beg me to go there whenever they visit South Boston, and over the years I’ve tasted most of the standards on this menu. Café Porto Bello is cozy and the staff [...]
Excel Women’s Groups Visit P&G Gillette
by Rick Winterson To be sure, Gillette here in South Boston is now owned by Procter & Gamble, a large corporation more frequently called “P&G”. That results in the combined corporate title “P&G Gillette”, which South Boston Online will use in the rest of this article about a visit to their headquarters. There’s a group of female students at [...]
Chapel/Cemetery 200th Committee Meets
by Rick Winterson Momentum (and excitement) for observing the 200th Anniversary of Father Francis Anthony Matignon’s death is growing. This was increasingly obvious at the most recent Anniversary Committee meeting on April 12. To briefly review, Fr. Matignon served as the Catholic priest for Boston and all of New England from the late 1700s until his death on [...]