Peter Chianca

1 week ago | boston.com | Peter Chianca

Music Remember those 43 record stores we included in last year’s Boston.com ultimate local record store guide? It wasn’t enough.

2 weeks ago | boston.com | Peter Chianca

Local Obituaries It is with heavy and deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Joseph Richard Saccone, Sunday, April 6, 2025 surrounded by his loving family at Boston Medical Center after a tragic motor vehicle accident at the young age of 18. Son of Joseph C. Saccone and Nicole L. Saccone of East Bridgewater, Mass. Born in Brockton, Mass. on December 1, 2006, Joseph grew up in Whitman and attended Duval Elementary School and moved to East Bridgewater in 2019, and was eagerly...

4 weeks ago | boston.com | Peter Chianca

A lot of Boston.com readers seem to be in agreement about one thing concerning the middle class in Massachusetts: There ain’t no such thing. “There are only two classes in the U.S.: Oligarchy and 99%,” wrote Ribert of Dedham. Tony from Carlisle offered more specifics: “If you can live on your savings and investments without selling your labor, you are upper class. If not, you are working class.

1 month ago | boston.com | Peter Chianca

As a longtime resident of Georgetown, Massachusetts, I was as surprised as anyone to discover that the reported new owner of the Boston Celtics, William Chisholm, grew up in my little town. (Population 8,454.) Apparently Chisholm, the managing director and co-founder of Symphony Technology Group, hightailed it out of there before I moved in back in 1999, or I’m sure I would have run into him in Crosby’s Market by now.

1 month ago | boston.com | Peter Chianca

Achieving middle class status was once the personification of the American dream. Unfortunately, it seems that these days the middle class in Massachusetts is a lot less “middle” than it was back in the 1950s. According to a new study by financial technology company SmartAsset, Massachusetts is now the most expensive state in the country for middle-class living, overtaking New Jersey.