September 2016
17th Annual Street Festival
Since 2000 A.D., South Boston has been blessed with a Street Festival in September. Non-stop entertainment, many civic groups, 100 merchants, and thousands of spectators have made it into a traditional “Southie time”. Last Saturday, [...]
Laboure Center Offers After School Tutoring
Youth Tutoring Youth (YTY) will begin this year on October 11th. Laboure is currently enrolling students in grades 3-5 in their free fun after school program that runs from 3:00-6:00 pm Monday-Thursday. Laboure is also [...]
Simon of Cyrene Breakfast
John Healey entertains the large crowd. State Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry and Sr. Peggy Youngclaus address thecrowd at the annual breakfast.
Massport Helps Kids Back to School
Some 35 children served by South Boston’s Tierney Center started school with a new backpack full of school supplies and new clothes provided by Massport. This is the 9th year that Massport has partnered with [...]
Need Help with a Drug Problem? Call 311. Right Away!
South Boston Online has published a series of articles on the severe drug problems in South Boston – 17 such articles actually, from the fall of last year to the spring of 2016. These [...]
Vietnam Memorial at 35
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 [...]