-By Phil Orlandella A new exhibit featuring a giant Anteater named “Jockamo” a one-year-old will open at the Franklin Park Zoo starting Saturday, April 2 inside the Tropical Forest. Giant anteaters are the largest known species of anteater reaching between…
Author: North End Regional Review Staff
Library Closing Sunday not Befitting of a Great City
The trustees of the Boston Public Library have submitted a budget for the coming year which includes closing the Boston Public Library in Copley Square on Sundays as a money saver. According to the library trustees, it costs $243,000 annually…
Spring Cleaning
The city begins its annual post winter street cleaning extravaganza this week. Everyone is reminded to pay close attention to postings and to signage indicating where street cleaning is to occur and at what time. To do any less is…
Radiation from Japan
Forgive us if we are less than buoyed with good feeling by hearing from our public officials who check such things that radiation from the badly damaged Japanese nuclear reactors has been found in rain that has recently fallen in…
Obituaries 03-29-2011
Keith Reeves Rodney Insurance executive, public servant and avid sailor. Keith Reeves Rodney of Boston, insurance executive, public servant, and avid sailor, died March 6 at his home in the North End of esophageal cancer. He was 67 years old.…
NE mounts Clean Streets Awareness
-By Phil Orlandella Spazzare! (to sweep) is a public awareness campaign to draw attention to the need for cleaner streets was announced at NEWRA’s monthly meeting by new committee chair David Grant of Battery Street. The public relations promotion has…
NBSS Seeks Move to North Street Site
–By Phil Orlandella North Bennet Street School has apparently out-grown its facility and is seeking to play Monty Hall and make a deal with the City of Boston to purchase the defunct printing plant and district 7 police station on…
Spring is Here? Think Again
-By Joshua Resnek When it began snowing about 1:30 p.m. Monday, thoughts of spring were obliterated. That’s New England for you, shattering dreams of warmth and ease at the end of a long winter. It has been, by all accounts,…
New Parking Meters Cause for Rejoicing
How many occasions in a lifetime have we parked our automobiles on a Boston street at a metered space only to find that we did not have quarters to put into the meter? We would stand there searching our pockets…
Khaddafi and Libya
Col. Khaddafi is a monster tyrant, the king of his people is a fool, a lunatic babbling on and on and kept in power by brute force. His kingdom’s military installations are now being systematically destroyed and any hopes that…