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By adamg - 7/13/21 - 9:56 pm
Dressed up like old time bathers at Revere Beach

BD Riccio captured a trio of Revere Parks and Rec workers today helping to celebrate Revere Beach's 125th anniversary as the nation's first public beach.

By adamg - 6/30/21 - 9:38 pm
Rainbow over the water in Revere

Never mind a double rainbow, Cat Queen saw a triple rainbow over the water from Revere this afternoon.

More rainbow shots: Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/21 - 9:12 pm
Plover with eggs on Revere Beach

Adam Balsam reports that on a trip to Revere Beach today, he got lucky and was able to spot a nesting pair of piping plovers. Read more.

By adamg - 6/19/21 - 3:49 pm
Lots of Necco wafers

Nap Citizen reports the Revere Market Basket has plentiful stocks of the traditional New England flavored chalk today.

By adamg - 4/11/21 - 11:14 am
Fish gargoyles at Revere Beach

But until then, these two fish will have to keep watching people eating roast-beef sandwiches and fries on one of the pavilions at Revere Beach.

By adamg - 4/8/21 - 6:39 pm
Seagull with a bagel

A seagull tried to figure out how to down half a bagel at Revere Beach this afternoon.

By adamg - 3/27/21 - 2:34 pm
Sunrise on Revere Beach

Matt Frank isn't usually up at the crack of dawn, but he was this morning and headed over to Revere Beach for some photos.

By adamg - 2/5/21 - 9:01 pm

WBZ reports the snor'easter washed zillions of clams up onto Revere Beach, providing an all-you-can-eat buffet for area gulls. The station cautions the clams are not good eatin' for people, though - they might be contaminated.

By sfpd5812 - 1/17/21 - 1:55 pm

This goes back to the early to mid eighty's.
At the bottom of Revere Beach where rte 145 turns towards winthrop.
there is a rotary. At the time I believe it was under MDC territory.
In the center of that rotory was a rowboat filled with flowers.
can anyone find a photo of it? I have been unsucessful.

By adamg - 12/8/20 - 8:54 am

WCVB reports a fire on Thornton Street in Revere early this morning killed one person - and that a young girl had to jump to safety.

By adamg - 11/17/20 - 9:32 am

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced today it's seeking court orders to vacate some 108 drug convictions that involved evidence certified as illegal drugs by Annie Dookhan, a chemist at the state labs in Jamaica Plain convicted in 2013 of just making stuff up. Read more.

By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm

The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.

By adamg - 9/25/20 - 9:44 am
The new Suffolk Downs

The new Suffolk Downs. Chelsea Creek, existing fuel tanks at the top. See it larger.

The BPDA board approved developer HYM's plans to transform the old Suffolk Downs race track over two decades into a new community on the East Boston/Revere line that will ultimately mean 10,000 apartments, condos and single-family homes and enough office, retail and hotel space to provide 25,000 new jobs. Read more.

By adamg - 8/20/20 - 4:07 pm
Packed Blue Line substiution bus

Boston Pedestrian shows us the absence of social distancing this afternoon on a shuttle bus brought in to ferry Blue Line riders between Wonderland and Orient Heights after signals came down with Covid-19 or something and stopped working.

By adamg - 7/27/20 - 8:57 am

State Police report a 20-year-old man was shot outside the Twist and Shake ice-cream shop, 82 Revere Beach Blvd., around 10:10 p.m. on Sunday. He was taken to Mass. General, where he was pronounced dead. State Police say it looks like the shooting came after an argument.

By adamg - 7/8/20 - 11:32 am

A federal judge ruled today that Revere's policy on car towing - to notify the car's owner but not any companies that might have financed it -and the state law the policy relies on, is unconstitutional and so it owes Honda the full value of a car the city had towed then let a private tow company sell without first notifying the car maker's financing wing. Read more.

By adamg - 7/1/20 - 6:17 pm
Swastikas on a car in Revere.

Revere Police today announced they've arrested Jason Pagliuca, 38, of Revere on charges he sprayed swastikas on the sides and hood of a Muslim resident's car on Lantern Road on June 11 - and then sprayed "White Power" on the road near the car. Read more.

By adamg - 6/19/20 - 6:30 pm

Update: Arrest made.

Moroccan American Connections in Revere reports that early on June 11, Revere Police found a car with swastikas spray painted on the hood and both driver and passenger sides of the car, with what looked like an interrupted attempt to spray a fourth on the trunk. "White power" was spray painted on the street near the car.

By adamg - 5/27/20 - 11:15 pm

State Police report a 17-year-old from East Boston was stabbed in a fight between two groups of youths at Eliot Circle at the southern end of Revere Beach around 7:45 p.m.

State Police say he was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in critical condition.

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