News
Cafe Porto Bello Takes the Pizza Crown
We asked, you answered. The top vote-getter in South Boston Online’s Best Pizza in South Boston poll is … Cafe Porto Bello! What makes the pizza so good? Donna Palermo, who works at the restaurant on East Broadway, breaks it down: The finest Italian ingredients Fresh secret recipe dough And, of course, it’s made with love Eslin Hill, a pizza [...]
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 the West Broadway Community Center. “I’m honored to partner with Mercy on this wonderful Three Kings event,” Councilor Flynn said, noting it’s an important day, [...]
Sports
M Street Park Summer Sports Center Offers Fun, Sports, Camaraderie
South Boston Online stopped by M Street Park (Lee Playground) recently to check out the city’s Summer Sports Center. The Boston Parks and Rec Department offers these free drop-in sports centers around the city from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the week for boys and girls ages 7-14. Each location offers instruction in several [...]
Kicking into High Gear: Former South Boston Youth Soccer Players Revive League
By Ginger DeShaney After learning that president Billy Baker was stepping down from South Boston Youth Soccer after the COVID-19 hiatus, some former players have vowed to revive the league. When Caitlyn Murphy got the blessing from Baker to take the ball and run with it, she recruited Samantha Mackie, Michaela Colvin, and Katelyn Evans. [...]
Running a Business: MyStryde Puts a New Spin on Treadmill Workouts
By Ginger DeShaney A miserable workout led Rebecca Skudder to find her stride … and found MyStryde. While training for a half-marathon back in 2014, Rebecca was supposed to do a running workout on the treadmill because it was cold out. “And I was like, this is miserable,” she recalled. So she took a spin [...]
Lifestyle
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 the West Broadway Community Center. “I’m honored to partner with Mercy on this wonderful Three Kings event,” Councilor Flynn said, [...]
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 and an internship with the Boston Police. Other than her time as a student, graduating with honors from Bridgewater State [...]
Business
Women in Trades: Latisha McQueen
Carpenter Latisha McQueen 50, has built a life around her trade, including having a hand in the new Old Colony Development. Both practical and thoughtful, she is as at home in beautiful buildings, including the Boston Public Library, as in construction sites. “It hasn’t always been easy, but I do love what I do, and [...]
Lilah’s Crystals and Tarot Open on West Broadway
By Carol Masshardt Healing and relaxation are indisputably needed, and If Lilah Evans is correct, there will be a customer base in South Boston just looking for a holistic way to deal with stress. Offering Tarot Card readings, Meditation, Reiki, (transfer energy through palm healing) Chakra (exploring centers of vital energy in the body) are [...]
Editorial
Bill Frew Remembers
Editor’s NOTE: William J. “Bill” Frew is a local writer. His major work is “A Pilot’s Life”, memoirs of flying for the Air Force and TransWorld Airlines. With his permission, we have excerpted a vivid memory Bill wrote about in Book 2, concerning Charles Bazzinotti – now memorialized on South Boston’s Vietnam Memorial, the first [...]
Houses of Worship and the Power of Prayer
Brianne Fitzgerald NP, MPH Governor Charlie Baker has unveiled his plan to begin the process of re-opening the state. The re-opening of individual businesses is significant, but not any more so than the re-opening houses of worship. We are all grateful as we move away from quarantine, and perhaps none more so than those individuals [...]
Happenings
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 Two, SHOWA Boston Institute, and the Boys & Girls Club, the youngsters are getting a taste of international cuisine. Table [...]
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 a couple of us that make the magic happen down there,” Victor said. But ABCD doesn’t present group awards. So [...]
Real Estate
New Notre Dame Education Center Building Planned for 200 Old Colony Avenue.
For Immediate Release March 8, 2018 Notre Dame Education Center and All Saints LLC have an agreement to build a new education facility and 55 units of housing at 200 Old Colony Ave., the present site of the education center today that is directly across from the Washington Village Development site in South Boston. [...]
Open Houses Scheduled
Open Houses Scheduled
Washington Village 235 Old Colony: First Signs Major South Boston Development
Richard Campbell DJ Properties Development plan for Washington Village is a huge project in full swing with the first of eight buildings being built, on a 5acre site, to include over 656 units, and nearly 100,000 square feet of retail shops- largely reinventing the moribund corridor on the corner of Dorchester Street and Old Colony [...]
Broadway – Both Old and New, Both East and West
“Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet …” The Ballad of the East and West" Rudyard Kipling, 1889 by Rick Winterson First, a bit of local history: Way back, Broadway was split into West and East Broadway at Perkins Square; the two east-west segments [...]
Nurture Is 15
"Nurture Salon and Spa, which is located in the heart of South Boston at 127 L Street, celebrated its (very) Happy 15th Birthday last Thursday evening. Nurture’s Proprietor and Lead Stylist Susan Devlin (shown above) is not only an artiste in what she does, she’s also a successful businesswoman. The sur- roundings inside Nurture, the [...]
South Boston Development Update: PART TWO
In South Boston Online’s last issue, we presented PART ONE of an update on major developments in South Boston. That focused on the Waterfront, from Fort Point, where GE is locating their corporate headquarters, to the proposed power plant site development at the eastern end of Summer Street on the Reserved Channel. Now, let’s journey [...]