Sharing a Love of Reading
For South Boston’s Linda Chiaramonte, it started a dozen years ago when she spotted a flyer at the library. Literation’s, a program designed to help students reach reading proficiency by fifth grade was seeking volunteers [...]
Celebrating Three Kings Day, Community
City Councilor Flynn and South Boston En Accion Host Event City Councilor Ed Flynn and South Boston En Accion Executive Director Mercy Robinson celebrated Three Kings Day with a well-attended community supper Wednesday evening at [...]
Senator Collins Announces Appointments to the SBCDF
Senator Nick Collins recently selected LTC Tim Murphy, MANG and Mrs. Haley (Dillon) Walsh to his appointed seats on the South Boston Community Development Foundation (SBCDF). “Tim and Haley know the community well having participated [...]
Mary Ellen McCormack $2 Billion Redevelopment Project
WinnCompanies and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) announced that work will begin in 2024 on the $2 billion redevelopment of the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex under a two-phase master plan to build 3,300 [...]
Naa-Jauh Benton: Emerging Leader
At twenty-three, Naa-Jauh Benton, a graduate student at Tufts University, is determined to combat inequities. She had a strong start working in her teen years at the SB Action Center, and the Condon Community School [...]
SB Sports Hall of Fame Awards Scholarships
The South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund awarded a record-breaking 16 $2,500 scholarships as well as the inaugural Ed Buccigross $5,000 Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Grant recently at the Curley Community Center. The Board [...]
Boys & Girls Club Explores Japanese Cuisine in Unique Collaboration
Most of the preteens in the after-school program at the Edgerley Family South Boston Boys & Girls Club had never tried Japanese food … much less cooked it. But through a collaboration of Table for [...]
Victor Baldassari: A Community Champion and the Heart of Kickoff for Kids
By Ginger DeShaney When Victor Baldassari was told he was being considered for an ABCD Community Heroes Award for his work with Kickoff for Kids, he asked if it could be a group award. “There's [...]
Over Thirty Years and Under Three: Jane Crump
(A series of profiles of neighbors who have long lived or are recent to South Boston by alternating weeks) Jane Crump, born in Indiana and raised in Weymouth, moved for love to South Boston in [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
You may not be aware of this, but our American Thanksgiving Day is unique in the world. This is not to say that other countries are ungrateful for their blessings. They certainly are grateful. Instead, [...]