EV Vol. 33, No.9 -FREEEVE ER TT Your Local News & Sports Online in 6 Languages! Scan & Subscribe Now! ADDOCCO TEAT www.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday Nine local fi refi ghters graduate from Firefi ghting Academy Graduates of Class #318 represent 20 Mass. Fire Depts. 617-387-2200 Friday, March 1, 2024 Mayor informs City Council new fi re chief search will remain internal Councillors push back against Nat’l Grid over river path access By Neil Zolot C ity Councillors learned that training for the evalEverett Fire Department graduates: Shown back row, from left to right: Samuel Kelley, Robert Concannon, James MacLaughlin, Liam McCain, and Douglas Hill; Shown front row, left to right: Mario Rivera, Laura Marchese, Phillip DaSilva, and Carmine DeMaria. (Courtesy photo) Special to Th e Advocate S tate Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine and Massachusetts Firefighting Academy (MFA) leadership announced the graduation of 35 fi refi ghters from the 50-day Career Recruit Firefi ghting Training Program, including nine from Everett. “Massachusetts firefighters are on the frontlines protecting their communities every day, and today’s graduates are needed now more than ever,” said State Fire Marshal Davine. “The hundreds of hours of foundational training they’ve received will provide them with the physical, mental, and technical skills to perform their jobs eff ectively and safely.” “Massachusetts Firefi ghting Academy instructors draw on decades of experience in the fi re service to train new recruits,” said MFA Director Eric Littmann. “Through consistent classroom instruction GRADUATE | SEE PAGE 10 SINCE 1921 Messinger Insurance Agency 475 Broadway Everett, MA 02149 Phone: 617-387-2700 Fax: 617-387-7753 NEW COMPETITIVE AUTO RATES AND BENEFITS AVAILABLE ACCIDENT FORGIVENESS DISAPPEARING COLLISION DEDUCTIBLE 11% DISCOUNT WITH SUPPORTING POLICY 10% COMBINED PAY IN FULL DISCOUNT AND GREEN DISCOUNT 10% GOOD STUDENT DISCOUNT Celebrating 100 years of excellence! Monday thru Friday: 8am to 6pm Saturdays 9am to 1pm! Check out our NEW website! www.messingerinsurance.com uation process for a new Fire Chief will include exercises in handling situations, dealing with employees, problem solving and community and media relations exercises, at their meeting on Monday, February 26. “It seems like we’re moving along,” Ward 2 Councillor Stephanie Martins said about the process – conducted by the Assessment Center and overseen by Parow Consulting for the City – that will yield a new Chief in May or June. In the meantime, Deputy Chief Joseph Hickey has been named as Acting Chief, after Sabato LoRusso returned to his position as Administrative Deputy Chief. Hickey was named to the position, in part, because of his seniority and is applying to be appointed permanently. The Councillors also received an update from Mayor Carlo DeMaria and Human Resources Director Terri Ronco on the process to fi nd a new Police Chief due to the pending retirement of Chief Steven Mazzie from the poSEARCH | SEE PAGE 4 Could Everett’s Jonathan DiBiaso be coming back to Boston College? By Joe McConnell F ormer Everett High School (EHS) Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso has been on the Vanderbilt University coaching staff since February 2021, where he has served as an off ensive analyst. Previously, he was a graduate assistant at Boston College for three years. While with the Eagles, DiBiaso assisted the off ensive staff in film breakdown, practice preparation and all game plan and scouting report materials. He also worked with the team’s off ensive coordinators and quarterbacks. It’s rumored that the Everett native just might be returning to the Heights as the football team’s new quarterbacks coach, which will help fi ll out new head coach Bill O’Brien’s staff . According to BC’s Director of Football Communications Brendan Flynn, the announcement could be made soon. Flynn told The Advocate on Tuesday (Feb. 27) that he “hopes (the announcement) will go out this week.” Before his fi rst incarnation at Boston College, Jonathan was an assistant football coach at Jonathan DiBiaso Catholic Memorial School in 2017, where his dad – the legendary John DiBiaso – is the school’s head coach. Prior to that, he was a part-time intern with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 2015-2017 training camps. DiBiaso was a Dartmouth College quarterback from 2013-15 before transferring to Tufts to complete his undergraduate career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in child development there in 2018, before receiving his master’s in sports administration from Boston College in 2020. Jonathan was of course a DIBIASO | SEE PAGE 19
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