Revere Beach Americas First Public Beach established in 1896 in Revere, Massachusetts

6th Annual Revere Beach Memorial Remembering those whose lives have been cut short due to alcohol and drugs. Please join us:  Sunday, September 23, 2012 William G. Reinstein Bandstand, Revere Beach 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (rain or shine) You may pre-register a loved one’s name by calling (781) 485-6404 or register in person between 6:00-7:00 p.m. on September 23rd. You are also invited to bring a photo of your deceased loved one to post on the memory wall during the event. Everyday we remember……Let’s spend a moment remembering together.   The 6th Annual Revere Beach Memorial is a candle light vigil remembering those whose lives have been cut short due to alcohol and drugs. The Revere CARES Coalition and the City of Revere is again organizing this touching event for Sunday, September 23, 2012, at the William G. Reinstein Bandstand on Revere Beach (rain or shine). The event begins at …

As the season winds down, it is time to reflect on some of nature’s highlights that kept us by the shore and entertained.

This event will be run by New England’s leading Bocce aficionados Mario Pagnoni is the author of The Joy of Bocce, which Newsweek called “the definitive guide to the sport”. With knowledge culled from playing all over the USA and interviewing the game’s top players, Pagnoni’s book covers the A to Z of bocce… Rules Backyard bocce and tournament play Strategies and techniques Equipment Court construction History of the game Pagnoni will be your event director—on hand to explain the game, demonstrate the techniques and strategies and answer any questions. Joy of Bocce LLC P.O. Box 608 Methuen, MA 01844 Phone: 978-686-8679 Email: BocceGuy@JoyofBocce.com Http://www.JoyofBocce.com Bocce Tourney Info Four players per team with two teammates stationed at each end of the court rolling two balls each. We will use United States Bocce Federation Open Rules. Tourney Director Mario Pagnoni is USBF Eastern United States Sector Vice-President. Games to 12 points …

Here are the winners from the 2012 Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival.

In just nine years the Sandcastle Festival has become one of the best attended, talked about and written about summer venues on this part of the Northeast coast. From a very humble, quiet, somewhat stumbling and fumbling beginning, the festival has grown into a massive event of the first order and as such, all future efforts must be well orchestrated, funded and carried out. Last weekend’s festival attendance was over the top, especially the crowd that came out all day Saturday and culminating with the enormous crowd that filled every portion of Revere Beach for the fireworks display. That crowd was estimated at more than 100,000 people and many an old timer remarked they hadn’t seen a crowd like this at the beach since the 1940’s. Some said the crowd rivaled the 100thanniversary beach extravaganza that brought so many to Revere in the 1990’s. It is the mass of people …

REVERE (CBS) – Half a million people are expected to crowd onto Revere Beach this weekend for the ninthannual sand sculpture contest. The event brings in artists from all over the world, but local man Michael Martelli of Revere is also participating in the event. Martelli is an oil painter by trade, but he says he loves this event even though it’s a lot of work. “The first day is probably the hardest day of the contest, the next three days are sculpting. Today is where you have to move all of the sand, put it into the form, put water with it, pack it all down.  So you end up shoveling like 20 tons of sand, there is like 10 tons there but you have to move it and then you have to put it back. So this is the grueling part,” explains Martelli. Martelli says oftentimes when he …