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by Rick Winterson   There’s little or no question that South Boston is an extremely desirable neighborhood to live in.  We have become America’s urban hometown.  What makes South Boston so special?  Perhaps taking a look at the recently completed month of June will help answer that question. June, 2106, was (as always) sandwiched between late May, which featured events like the opening of the Lawn on D and the solemnities of Memorial Day itself, and the weekend of the Fourth of July, when the Esplanade festivities took place and the Queen Mary 2 docked at Black Falcon.  Well, this is a marvelous framework for any month, but it is not the month of June itself. So, South Boston Online will confine our comments to [...]

The boarding of the Provincetown II began at 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday evening, July 6; it embarked for the evening promptly at 7.  The occasion:  the 2016 Annual Boys & Girls Club Cruise – a South Boston fundraising tradition.  This Cruise is named in honor of a departed Clubhouse Angel:  It’s now called the Mary Binda Memorial Harbor Cruise You might recall the temperatures in Boston last week.  They were blistering, peaking into the 90s on occasion; the weeknights, even after dark, weren’t much better.  But an easterly sea breeze made the Cruise ever so much better.  A Massport fireboat greeted the Provincetown II with 500 gallon per minute sprays.  The dancing was non-stop and enjoyable without anyone getting overheated – not that one would [...]

   A critical but often neglected need in all organizations is an orderly, planned succession  -   determining who replaces whom – and when.  As of last Friday, July 1, Jake Bombard now serves as the Executive Director of South Boston’s Laboure Center.  His highly regarded predecessor, Sr. Maryadele Robinson, will continue performing outreach duties at Laboure.  Best of all, this orderly succession assures that Laboure will continue to benefit from the talents of both individuals.   by Rick Winterson   It is a pleasure for South Boston Online to write about the recent change in leadership at South Boston’s Laboure Center on the southwest corner of D Street and Broadway.  Jacob (”Jake”) Bombard, himself from South Boston, assumed the position as the Laboure Center’s  Executive [...]