For as long as anyone can remember. the Nazzaro Center has been hosting North End Against Drugs’ annual Easter Party, and for as long as anyone can remember, the party gets bigger and better every year. By most estimates, this year’s party played host to about 150 children and parents which would make it the biggest yet. Read More…
Seven years ago, the city of Boston joined the national Scripps Spelling Bee competition and announce that it would begin to send a representative to the finals in Washington DC. And right there at the beginning, the Nazzaro Center has been instrumental in seeing that the North End community was included. And so, for the Read More…
For his years of service and commitment to the North End community in general and the youth of the neighborhood in particular, the Nazzaro Center Youth Program paid tribute to Officer Teddy Boyle, long a champion of the younger generation. Wearing various hats including District 1 Liaison to the North End, a board member of Read More…
The Nazzaro Center art students, under the direction of art instructor Josephine Lepore, were participants in this year’s Lions Club International Peace Poster Contest for 2014-15. Overseen by Mary DiMasi and Tyler Keegan, Boston area officials, the Boston Host Lions Club sponsored this contest and more than 50 students of the Nazzaro Center in all age groups over a period of 6 Read More…
The Nazzaro Center has just concluded its annual can drive by amassing an astounding 323 cans and other packaged foodstuffs in just a little over three weeks! This was truly a remarkable exercise in civic enterprise by the 90+ youth members of the center, members who ranged in age from 6-18 years old. Even though Read More…
Mirabella Pool 2014 Registration Sign-ups begin Monday, May 19 at the Nazzaro Center (Pool opens on June 21st for the season) Regular Rates Children under 6-FREE Children (6-12)-$5 ** Young Adults (13-17)-$10 Seniors (62+)-$5 **Adults (18-61)-$15 Guest Pass-$3/day (Must be accompanied by an Adult member) Pool Schedule: General Hours Mon-Fri 11:00 am-8:00 pm Sat+Sun 10:30 Read More…
The Celtics basketball season may be over, but they’re still waging battle against another formidable adversary, more formidable than the Heat, Spurs or Pacers-HUNGER! And they have assembled an All*Star cast to help with a full court press against this relentless opponent. With a starting line-up of ‘Project Bread’, Sal’s Pizza, the Eliot school and Read More…
With literally thousands of 6th and 8th graders across the city trying to place the first step of their future on the most solid footing possible, 13 North End/Nazzaro youth hit the equivalent of the academic lottery by gaining entrance into one of the three prestigious public schools in the Boston school system. But unlike Read More…
The City of Boston, under the supervision of its Centers for Youth and Families department, staged the 7th annual Scripps Spelling Bee regional finals at the Copley Library on Saturday March 22 and once again, the North End and the Nazzaro Center were well represented. Three Nazzaro participants, Domenic Orlando (St. John’s), Jacob Stein (Eliot) Read More…
Thanks to the continued generosity of the Police Athletic League (PAL), 56 members of the Nazzaro Center Ski Club enjoyed the long St. Patrick’s Day week-end skiing Killington Mountain, the “Beast of the East” ski resort in central Vermont. Aided by a most fortuitous two feet of new snow just two days before the trip, Read More…
On February 18, 2014 at 4:00 pm, the Nazzaro Community Center (30 N. Bennet St.) in the Boston’s North End will host Interactive Readings: Stories Alive! Celebrate the Legacy of “I Have a Dream.” More information is shown in the flyer.
For the 7th consecutive year, since its Boston inauguration, the Nazzaro Center has hosted a regional spelling bee for the local North End schools and will be sending two representatives to the Boston finals at the Copley Library on March 22. As the chosen Boston entity to administer the local Bees that ultimately send the Read More…