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20 03, 2025

The Neighborhood House’s 2025 Benefit and Auction Gala Draws Near (March 28)

2025-03-20T10:16:29-04:00March 20th, 2025|Categories: Education, Featured, Happenings, Lifestyle|0 Comments

By Rick Winterson The South Boston Neighborhood House is holding its Annual Benefit and Auction gala Friday, March 28 from 6-10 p.m. at the Seaport Hotel. You are invited to attend “the House is Where the Heart is” event to dine, drink, dance, and do good for the community.  In Executive Director Kathy Lafferty’s words, it’ll be a real gala. Many of you know about the gala’s Live Auction that occurs every year. This year's nine Live Auction items include concerts, sporting events, and private dining that is nothing short of elegant. And the 2025 Silent Auction is already underway – just log onto the www.sbnh.org website and go to the auction link. You can then bid electronically on any of these Silent Auction items or you can [...]

7 03, 2025

Councilor Flynn Calls for City and Boston Police Oversight for TNCs (Uber/Lyft)

2025-03-07T07:18:15-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: Education, Featured, News|Comments Off on Councilor Flynn Calls for City and Boston Police Oversight for TNCs (Uber/Lyft)

At this week’s Boston City Council meeting, Councilor Ed Flynn filed an order for a hearing to discuss the regulation on Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) by the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department (BPD), following an alleged sexual assault on a young woman in a rideshare last week in South Boston. Although TNCs are currently regulated at the state level under the MA Department of Public Utilities, Councilor Flynn called for the City of Boston and Boston Police Department to provide oversight at the municipal level, including a personal registration and fee to operate, fingerprinting, and an extensive background check. Discussions on prohibiting out-of-state operators is warranted, as well as TNCs being placed under the purview of Boston Police - similar to taxis [...]

17 02, 2025

The Cannabis/Marijuana Buffer Zone

2025-02-17T10:14:46-05:00February 17th, 2025|Categories: Business, Featured|Comments Off on The Cannabis/Marijuana Buffer Zone

Recently, South Boston Online read in Boston’s media that a move was afoot to reduce – or perhaps even eliminate – the buffer zone between authorized shops legally allowed to sell “cannabis”, which is actually “marijuana”.  This buffer zone is supposed to measure at least one-half (0.5) mile between any and all such shops. Several more variances from this restriction have been requested from City of Boston authorities by potential vendors.  We were told that around the Downtown area, the City of Boston has allowed three such variances. Perhaps a few facts should come next: Cannabinoids are a large (over 100) family of hemp plants, one of which contains THC. CBD is “cannabidiol”, which is sometimes confused with THC.  CBD comes from other, low-THC hemp [...]

7 02, 2025

Important New VERTEX Painkiller Is Approved

2025-02-07T10:17:01-05:00February 7th, 2025|Categories: Business, Education, Featured, Lifestyle, News|Comments Off on Important New VERTEX Painkiller Is Approved

By Rick Winterson  Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a worldwide biotechnology corporation. It was founded 35 years ago in Cambridge.  It has now established its global headquarters on Fan Pier in South Boston’s Seaport District. In addition, Vertex has international headquarters in London along with commercial branches and research sites in continental Europe, Australia, Latin America, the Middle East, and other points in North America.  More specifically, in its location at 50 Northern Avenue, Vertex is an integral part of South Boston’s Innovation District.  And Vertex has been truly innovative. In January of this year, Vertex announced that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) had just approved a recently developed Vertex product – it’s a new type of painkiller Vertex has named “Journavx.” According to trade/technical journals [...]

30 01, 2025

Condon kids learn life lessons through boat building

2025-01-30T19:36:40-05:00January 30th, 2025|Categories: Education, Featured, Happenings, Lifestyle|Comments Off on Condon kids learn life lessons through boat building

By Ginger DeShaney In a remarkable hands-on experience, a group of Condon Community Center kids built a 10-foot row boat from scratch, learning not only the art of crafting a boat but also gaining valuable life lessons along the way.  These young builders – Jacob Davis, 11; Charlie Brea, 9; Naib Yohannes, 10; and Marcus Lacaussade, 11 – worked tirelessly over the course of several weeks to build the boat they named the “Billy Allen” in honor of an amazing Condon coach who was promoted to a different community center. They even brought it to a boat show! Under the guidance of instructor Tim Smith from Community Boat Building, the kids learned how to safely handle tools, measure and cut materials, and assemble the boat [...]

8 01, 2025

BPS Recommendations for Excel High School

2025-01-08T12:53:23-05:00January 8th, 2025|Categories: Education, Featured|Comments Off on BPS Recommendations for Excel High School

Good Afternoon South Boston Civic Leaders and Community Members, Hope this finds you well. I am reaching out to share details regarding the recommendation to close Excel High School in South Boston. The district’s goal is to continue to provide high quality learning environments for every child, and high quality teaching environments for every educator. Yesterday, BPS shared recommendations for select closures and mergers impacting a total of 6 schools including Excel, identified through a rigorous, transparent, data-driven, process: This includes 2 high school closures, 1 elementary school closure, 1 merger of two elementary schools, and the conversion of 1 high school from a degree-granting school into a program. These recommendations will be presented to the Boston School Committee on January 22, 2025. We expect [...]

6 12, 2024

Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

2024-12-06T10:03:29-05:00December 6th, 2024|Categories: Education, Featured, Happenings, Lifestyle, News|Comments Off on Sports Hall of Fame Awards Record-Breaking 21 Scholarships

A  record-breaking 21 scholarships were awarded by the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund at its annual scholarship award ceremony Nov. 29 at the Curley Community Center. Twenty high school seniors and one 8th-grader received the awards that included one non-degree scholarship for a trade school and one $5,000 Scholar-Athlete scholarship given in honor of late founder and Board leader Ed Buccigross. Since its inception as a nonprofit in 1995, the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund has awarded 270 students with scholarships totaling $466,000. The success is due to the support of the Boston community, vital sponsors, and local Boston businesses and organizations. Congratulations to the 2024 award winners! LEFTERIS MARKOS. It’s one thing to organize an event, it’s [...]

29 11, 2024

Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

2024-11-29T17:43:42-05:00November 29th, 2024|Categories: Business, Featured, Happenings, Lifestyle|Comments Off on Unleash Your Inner Artist! The Wild One Brings Creative Fun to South Boston

The Wild One Creative Lounge offers a fresh, engaging, and quiet space for people to connect and create. Located in the basement of Love Child, 364 W. Broadway, The Wild One provides visitors with a unique creative escape from the ordinary. Guests can indulge in flower arranging, succulent garden creation, bracelet making, and other fun crafts, making it an ideal destination for a casual outing or a meaningful gift-making session. There will also be seasonal projects on select dates. “Love Child has always been about connecting people in the community,” said owner Colleen Dunleavy. “We wanted to figure out a way to make being creative more accessible.” While South Boston has a ton of restaurants and bars, The Wild One offers something different. It’s a [...]

20 11, 2024

Elected Officials Opposition to BlueBikes Expansion in South Boston

2024-11-20T10:20:19-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: Featured, News|Comments Off on Elected Officials Opposition to BlueBikes Expansion in South Boston

Dear Chief Franklin-Hodge and Commissioner Gove, We are writing to you today to express our concerns and opposition to the expansion of 7-14 BlueBikes stations in South Boston and the South Boston Waterfront. As we understand it, earlier this year, the administration announced 100 new BlueBikes stations throughout the City. South Boston neighbors and civic groups have contacted us to convey that they do not see the demand that would require expansion on that scale, especially when all new Article 80, Large and Small project, multi-family proposals are required by the City to have BlueBikes stations on site. As our offices have said many times to Boston Transportation Department (BTD) staff in both internal and community meetings, it is critical that the city be mindful [...]

19 11, 2024

28 Bluebike Stations in South Boston

2024-11-19T09:09:46-05:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: Featured, News|Comments Off on 28 Bluebike Stations in South Boston

A presentation entitled “Bluebikes Open House” took place in the Tynan Community Center.  It was presented by Kim Foltz, the Senior Bike Share & Active Transportation Planner in the City of Boston’s so-called “Streets Cabinet”, along with her crew of three assistants.  More information about the Streets Cabinet can be obtained on the Boston.gov internet. The objectives of the Bluebike Open House were three in number: 1.- Present information on the need to expand; 2.- List potential sites for new Bluebike rental stations; 3.- Ask for opinions on the best places in South Boston for these stations to be installed. The Open House presented diagrams of 28 possible new Bluebike stations in South Boston.  Fourteen locations were in the residential/small business area of South Boston; [...]

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