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RHS teacher and budding author Nancy Barile.
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opular Revere High School teacher Nancy Barile is getting ready to publish a book but it’s not the type of book one would believe your average teacher would create. Instead of a murder mystery, love story or mathematical algorithms, think leather jackets adorned with metal clothespins, spiked hair-dos, and metal-studded bracelets all to the tune of thrashing guitars and screaming vocal-driven music
ANARCHY IN PHILLY: Nancy Barile and friend in her punk rock days in Philadelphia. (Photos courtesy of Nancy Barile)
– you may get the picture. Surprisingly, it’s an autobiography about her punk rock days as a teenager in Philadelphia. Wait, Philadelphia – okay, now we’re shocked. This is Pat’s country! Hold My Coat? Not in Philly: The True Story of a Female Punk Pioneer from 1976 to 1982 is the working title of Barile’s book set to be published by DiWulf Publishing House. “This is not quite the book I thought I would publish,” Bari-
le joked. “But I am really excited about it.” According to Barile, she’s still writing the book but is close to completing. No release date has been set but she expects it will be out by the end of the year or early 2019. Barile fell in love with the punk rock music scene of the Sex Pistols, Ramones to The Clash which dominated the
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YM Investments Group met with the city council to discuss plans for a zoning map amendment for the Suffolk Downs Overlay District. At the January 22 city council meeting, Tom O’Brien of HYM addressed the council with respect to a proposal for a zoning amendment. The Suffolk Downs Overlay District includes the Beachmont portion of the 160acre site including Tomasello Drive, to Winthrop Avenue and down Washburn Avenue. O’Brien stated his number one priority for the Suffolk Downs site is to make it a mixed-use development. “We want to make it a place where people walk, shop, work, eat a meal; it’s got to be mixed-use,” O’Brien said. “We need to create great open space and parks. We also want to create neighborhood retail, which means restaurants, not big-box retail like Target.” O’Brien said there will also
Three years later, no bathrooms, concession stand at Griswold Field By Sara Brown
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s the late Tom Petty once sang, “The waiting is the hardest part” and for the last two years, baseball and softball players and their families have been waiting to buy a hot dog and use the bathroom for two years – and that’s not right, according to some city council-
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lors. At the January 22 city council meeting, ward councillors Patrick Keefe and Charlie Patch presented a motion requesting an update on Griswold Field (formerly St. Mary’s Baseball Field) and Councillor-at-Large Steven Morabito presented a motion requesting that the Mayor put out to bid the con-
struction for the restrooms and concession stand for the fields. Since the fields have opened, very late in 2016, there have been no bathrooms or concession stands for the children. The original plans for the stateof-the-art baseball and softball fields called for bathrooms and a concession stand but, back in 2016, city councillors were in-
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formed by Argus Construction of Bedford that the fields would not only be delayed, but would not include a concession and bathrooms. The contract was awarded to Argus in 2015 but construction that year was hampered by flooding of the fields. A year
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be plenty of green space on the East Boston side including exercise trails, dog parks and ballparks. In Revere, there will be a landscaped amphitheater. In terms of commercial development, Beachmont Square will feature neighborhood retail. Belle Isle Square will be created at the Suffolk Downs MBTA stop that will also include neighborhood retail. Beachmont will also have an Innovation Station as a place to attract more startup businesses and entrepreneurs. “This could create jobs in a place that will have a significant amount of commercial influence,” O’Brien said. “This sets the table for the city.” The building heights vary from 50 feet to 200 feet up. On the corner of Winthrop and Washburn avenues, 50 feet is the maximum height allowed. Ward 2 Councillor Ira Novoselsky said he was concerned over the proposed
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