Happenings

The Thomas J. Fitzgerald Post #561 of South Boston (Veterans of Foreign Wars) will host their annual Memorial Day exercise on Sunday, May 28.  Veterans of the post, along with elected officials and the Excel High School JROTC cadets, will gather at the post at 9:15AM (at 715 East 4th Street) and march to Medal of Honor Park and then return to the post for a brief speaking program and lunch.  The public is invited to attend and join us.  "Memorial Day is a day of remembering those veterans who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country," said Ed Flynn, Commander of the Thomas J. Fitzgerald Post VFW.    "Our country will never forget their duty, courage and sacrifice.  We honor them and our Gold Star Families that gave [...]

By Rick Winterson      During this Year of Our Lord 2017, and the next, 2018, World War I (WWI) and all its events will reach the century mark.   Constant nation-to-nation controversy in Europe flared into WWI in 1914.  The incident that began it was the assassination of the Archduke of Serajavo.  Nearly 100 years ago, on Friday, April 6, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for approval to declare war on Germany.  It was granted.  WWI ended 19 months later on Armistice Day (now Veterans Day in the U.S.), November 11, 1918.    As the century mark approaches for this historic conflict, South Boston is preparing to memorialize the part played in that War by the residents and happenings of, in, and around South [...]

Nope, it’s not a fire.  It’s just one of those occasionally brilliant fall sunsets, seen looking up East Broadway to the top of Pill Hill.  These occur when the autumn sun drops below the tree line for a few moments, on an evening before the leaves begin to fall.

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department welcomed 25 former recruits of the Correction Officer Training Academy (COTA) Class 16–02 to the ranks of officers during a graduation ceremony held at the Aloft Boston Hotel in South Boston.   The event was attended by several members of Sheriff Tompkins’ Executive Staff including Superintendent In-Chief Michael Harris, House of Correction Superintendent Yolanda Smith, Deputy Superintendent of the House of Correction Richard McCarthy, Deputy Superintendent of the Nashua Street Jail Cliff Carney, and Assistant Deputy Superintendent and Supervisor of Training Jose Mojica, along with several members of the Training Division and Honor Guard, and the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Department Assistant Deputy Superintendent of Operations Robert Durgin and Director of Human Resources Robert Dillon.   Realizing their collective goal, which [...]

by Rick Winterson   In the late ‘70s, support was increasing in South Boston to erect a formal memorial of some kind, dedicated to those 25 heroic men from South Boston who lost their lives in Vietnam.  It wasn’t only from the friends and relatives of those brave military men – it was a community-wide sentiment.  Concerned residents went to work – washing cars, seeking small donations door-to-door, holding Southie “times”, and so on.  Major donors or government grants were nowhere to be found. And it worked.  Something north of $28,000 was raised; South Boston’s Vietnam Memorial became much more than just a dream.  In the fall of 1981, the Memorial was first dedicated.  Thirty-five years later, on September 18, in the year of 2016, [...]

The South Boston Chamber of Commerce, working in conjunction with South Boston NDC – is pleased to announce that the 17th Annual South Boston Street Festival will take place on Saturday, September 17, 2016. Over the past sixteen years, the festival has grown significantly and has become South Boston’s most highly anticipated events, attracting over 8,000 residents and visitors. Attendance and all entertainment is FREE. This year’s festival will once again feature “The Best of South Boston” including over 100 merchants, restaurants, artists and community organizations, which will fill East Broadway from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Live performances will take place on two stages providing festival goers with live entertainment throughout the day. Call the Southie Shuttle for FREE transportation within South Boston, to [...]