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2 weeks ago | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol Masshardt Boston Arts Academy and South Boston’s Brenny O’Brien have proven to be one good fit. She graduated with Honors in Theatre and Community Service, and a proud record of achievement. “When I was 3 years old, I saw a play and said, ‘I’m going to do that.’ I started performing at 4 and had my first professional role at 7, and it has gone on from there,” she said.
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2 weeks ago | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol MasshardtEighteen-year-old Devoney DeBarros, from South Boston, is graduating from Madison Park Technical Vocational School with an impressive record. A Herald-recognized Scholar-Athlete, he will soon graduate with recognition/honors in Math, College Writing, Biology and History. There is more still to know about and celebrate this senior, headed to Wentworth in the fall. “My dream is to make my mother proud,” he said. Devoney seems to know who he is and what matters beyond many his age.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol MasshardtSpoke Gallery celebrated their supporter, long-time board member, champion of many non-profits and writer, actor, scientist and neighbor, Rick Winterson at No Man’s Land on August 22, 2024. The urban landscape, really a swatch of land once ruefully overgrown and neglected just behind the high school, and now transformed, was an enchanted and fitting place to honor Rick with youth writing and art adorning the walls and trees.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
(This series features those who have long connections of over thirty years in South Boston, and those with three years or under.)By Carol MasshardtAcutely aware of history and well attuned to the wonders and challenges of 2024, Edmund Toomey’s life experiences and perspectives could fill a book. But at 85, he prefers a life of privacy and reflection in a neighborhood where he was raised and to which he returned forty-four years ago.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol MasshardtDominique Nelson, can turn an ordinary, imperfect, sun backed sidewalk into a stunning work of art. A twenty-five-year-old, life- long South Boston resident, she is an accomplished artist and teacher with a unique honesty and joy in who she is. The chalk drawings outside her East Broadway home near “H” are only the most obvious of the creations. She began drawing when her wise mother thought she needed to express more, and later at Boston Arts Academy and Mass. College of Art.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol Masshardt(The series will feature 2024 high school graduates from South Boston)South Boston’s Liana Flood can make it look easy. A 2024 graduate of the Dexter-Southfield School in Brookline, she excelled in track and is an editor of the school newspaper and has been a peer tutor. She with graduate with the academic honor of cum laude on June 1.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol Masshardt(The series will feature 2024 high school graduates from South Boston)Many high school seniors are understandably unsure about their future goals, but eighteen-year-old Caleigh Houlihan isn’t one of them. If ever there was a born teacher in the making it is this South Boston native and 2024 Boston Latin Academygraduate. Soon to attend Bridgewater State University as an Elementary Education/Special Education major, Caleigh hasn’t missed an opportunity to prepare.
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May 24, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol Masshardt(The series will feature 2024 high school graduates from South Boston)Thomas, “Tommy” Flaherty, 18, will soon be graduating from Archbishop Williams High School. He has lived in South Boston all of his life, and it seems he knows every street and blade of grass in the community he loves. In the fall, he plans to follow in the footsteps of his older sister, Casey, and join the Coast Guard. “I knew I wanted to do something different and didn’t want to go to college.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol MasshardtIt’s a new name and a new, but familiar owner, Jenna Spaudling, 33, in a reconfigured, but the same space as the popular Broadway Dog Spa. It is a time to congratulate former owner, Michelle McDonnell, who opened on December 16, 2005, and retired at the end of March, and to welcome into her new role, trusted groomer, Jenna. Michelle set a standard for a work ethic and searched for talent over her years. “I can be a micromanager, I know that, but didn’t have to be with Jenna.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
southbostononline.com | Carol Masshardt |Jeanne Rooney
By Carol MasshardtMake no mistake, the forty or so ladies, ages twenties to eighties, own the bowling alley on Wednesday nights from September-April. They come from a variety of jobs, backgrounds, abilities as bowlers, and though some don’t actually recall how they came to join, they surely know why they stay. “It’s the camaraderie,” said Jeanne Hogan, who comes from her healthcare job at Tufts Medical Center. “I have only been coming about three years, but there are some thirty-plus.
