South Boston Little League holds opening ceremonies
On Sunday, May 1, the South Boston Little League held its opening ceremonies at Evans Field adjacent to the Murphy Rink. Players, parents, managers, and league officials gathered together to acknowledge the beginning of the [...]
Softball league opens season
By KAY FORDE On Thursday evening, April 28, the South Boston Girls’ Softball League conducted its opening night ceremony at the Shore Road softball field next to the Murphy Rink. It was cold and a [...]
Tierney Center employees perform CPR, save child’s life
By KEVIN DEVLIN We’ve read so many sad stories in the news that many people have become immune to the heartache that people suffer as a consequence. But this story is an emotionally uplifting one [...]
Artists for Humanity announces expansion
By RICK WINTERSON The Artists for Humanity’s EpiCenter will expand by more than twice its current size in less than two years, the South Boston center, city officials and private business leaders announced Monday morning. [...]
Local naturalist to detail South Boston’s ‘unnoticed nature’
By RICK WINTERSON There are two stories here: To begin with, a staunch South Bostonian named Marjorie M. Gibbons endowed an annual series of lectures to be given in her memory at the South Boston [...]
Recent exhibition openings and closings in South Boston
By RICK WINTERSON Saturday, April 16, was the closing day for three exhibitions in South Boston. It has become a custom in local galleries to mark these closings with what might be termed “retrospective celebrations.” [...]
South Boston Mites crowned Mayor’s Cup champions
By KEVIN DEVLIN and BOBBY MCGARRELL The South Boston Mites were named the champions of the inaugural Mayor’s Cup street hockey tournament that came to an end in Charlestown on Friday. They’re a talented group of kids [...]
Meet Shawn McDonagh, the Curley Community Center’s new youth worker
By KEVIN DEVLIN I remember this young man when he was a kid playing basketball for the former Saint William’s CYO program in Savin Hill. Then I watched him coach CYO games for Saint William’s [...]
Tynan Community Center hosts April vacation cookout
By KEVIN DEVLIN While children were home from school for April vacation last week, the Tynan Community Center kept many of them happily occupied. On Thursday afternoon, April 21, the Tynan staff held a wiffle [...]
Letter to the editor: Bring back elected school committee members
Lately, all that we are hearing about are racial issues inside Boston Latin and all we see on the TV news is Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson, who chairs the City Council’s Education Committee. Back [...]