News
MEDIA UPDATE: COVID-19 TESTING AND MARIAN MANOR
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marian Manor in South Boston has taken numerous steps to support good hygiene, strong infection control and social distancing, all while providing the highly compassionate, high quality care for which it has long been recognized. Today Marian Manor shared updated data about COVID-19 testing at is South Boston skilled nursing facility. Consistent with [...]
South Boston Convention Center Facility adds 1,000 beds to Massachusetts’ Healthcare System
Union construction workers are answering the call for more hospital beds, converting the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center into a 1,000 bed field hospital in just 3 days. With the state's health care system facing a shortfall of thousands of beds, members from Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 worked around the clock to adapt the convention center's air system for [...]
Sports
Gate of Heaven CYO basketball: Meet the Evans Club
This team is in the Gate of Heaven CYO midget hoop house league. The kids are young and learning the game. They are coached by Edward Flynn. Pictured with the team is the league commissioner, Sean Monahan. The players are Jared Firth, Dylan Picard, Stephen Flynn, Andrew Donovan, Coulter Medeiros, Jaylen, Mullen Burn, Owen Donovan, Ben Fennelly, and Joseph Keating. “These players work well together,” Flynn [...]
Lifestyle
Look Who’s Cooking! Gabe Branch
By Carol Masshardt An artist from Sioux City, Iowa, Gabriel (Gabe) Branch, is also a serious and experienced cook and the new Chef at Gray’s Hall on East Broadway. His creativity and thoughtfulness seem a particularly good match for this popular and mature small plate and wine bar, and it all started when he was [...]
South Boston Street Fest Provides Full Day of Fun
By Rick Winterson The 22nd South Boston Street Fest provided five full hours of non-stop festivities. Between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, more than 80 local artists, merchants, and South Boston organizations of all kinds attracted thousands of visitors from all over South Boston and the surrounding communities. Dozens of booths lined East Broadway [...]
Business
For the love of cookies: Southie woman turns baking hobby into a business
By Ginger DeShaney The timing was perfect for Katie Rausch. Just as she was turning 30 years old (Feb. 5), she transformed her baking hobby into a business. “I’m entering a new decade with a new passion,” she said. “I’m so excited. It feels like the right time.” While stuck at home during the COVID-19 [...]
Cafe Polonia Reopens: Polish Restaurant Under New Management After Hiatus
By Ginger DeShaney After an almost year-long hiatus, Cafe Polonia is open again! The famed South Boston Polish restaurant is under new management with a pair of hard-working Polish brothers at the helm: Marcin, 32, and Damian Biedrzycki, 24. But the small, homey restaurant looks the same, the menu is the same, the cooks are [...]
Editorial
Happenings
GOAL! South Boston Soccer League Kicks Off Season
By Ginger DeShaney It was a full-circle moment for some parents last week as the upstart South Boston Soccer League kicked off its first season with a meet-and-greet and parade at Moakley Park. When Jean Matthews was a kid, she played for South Boston Youth Soccer, which has been revitalized as the South Boston Soccer [...]
Friday Night Lights: Youth Flag Football League Brings Community Together
By Ginger DeShaney The football action was fast and fierce. The cheering was thunderous. The girls and boys were having a blast on the field and parents couldn’t contain their enthusiasm on the sidelines. The electric atmosphere of Friday Night Lights has come to South Boston, thanks to Allison Baker and her hard-working team. Friday [...]