December 2023
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 [...]
November 2023
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, [...]
Spotlight: Erin LaMonica
Since May, Erin LaMonica has been employed as the Community Initiatives Coordinator by the South Boston Neighborhood House (the SBNH) on H Street. Erin’s position is funded with a three-year grant to the SBANP (South [...]