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The imprisonment rate of residents of Boston’s communities of color – areas of Dorchester and Roxbury – are consistently double and triple the city average, according to a recently released ... Read more.
Sonny’s – the longtime Adams Corner watering hole that closed abruptly after its sale last month— will be ... Read more.
Massachusetts politicians worked through their shock and disappointment in the days after the unexpected defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, then switched gears as they began to identify local and party priorities ... Read more.
The Bay State on Nov. 8 joined three other states in legalizing marijuana, bringing the national total to eight and becoming the first state on the eastern seaboard to legalize recreational marijuana. Legislative ... Read more.
Six Dorchester teens will perform in The Freelance Players production of “Lord Scarecrow,” an original musical based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Feathertop.” The production will feature a total of 18 young actors telling ... Read more.
Whittier Street Health Center celebrated the opening of a new pharmacy located at Quincy Commons, 279 Blue Hill Ave., in Dorchester last week. Whittier’s pharmacy is part of the 340B Drug Discount Program that allows ... Read more.
Frustrated parents and Mattapan community members, about two dozen in all, used a meeting Tuesday night to propose three alternatives to BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang, who was present, about his plan to shut down the ... Read more.
The Boston City Council on Wednesday approved a request by Councilor Frank Baker to ask the state legislature for 12 new liquor licenses for the South Bay Town Center project.
The company building the ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports two men in their late 20s were shot outside 51 Ames St. around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.
One man was pronounced dead not long after his arrival at a local hospital. The other ... Read more.
Proponents of the Boston-only ballot measure “Question 5” won a decisive victory Tuesday night, with voters overwhelmingly voting to adopt a one percent property tax surcharge to benefit housing, parks, and historical ... Read more.
If you had $16 million that you could use for affordable housing, where would you spend the money? City officials are facing that question after Tuesday’s “yes” vote on Question 5, the Community Preservation Act, that ... Read more.
Favored by the bright fall foliage and fresh plantings, Department of Conservation and Recreation managers gave elected officials and reporters a tour of the 1.3-mile Neponset River Greenway extension last Thursday ... Read more.
Michael Dennehy, the city of Boston’s director of public works for the last two years and a Milton resident, was voted in as that town’s administrator last week, leaving serious considerations like municipal contract ... Read more.
Riders frustrated with long waits between trains and crowded cars on the Orange Line can look forward to 2019, when the MBTA expects to begin putting its new Orange Line cars in service and boost capacity by 40 percent ... Read more.
Sonny’s – the longtime Adams Corner bar and eatery run by three generations of the Elia family – closed its doors abruptly on Oct. 26 after it was sold to new buyers. Richard Elia, the son of founder and namesake ‘Sonny ... Read more.
With large developments rising in and around Dorchester and residents continuing to weigh the impacts on the neighborhood, officials from the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) offered general updates on major ... Read more.
Three years in and optimistically eyeing a 2017 groundbreaking, the developers of the mixed-used Dot Block project said this week that they are juggling design and funding questions that will have delayed the start of the ... Read more.
Urbanity Dance, the largest contemporary dance company in Boston, will stage two shows at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester next Friday, November 18. “Call of Courage” is billed as a night of dance and storytelling to ... Read more.
MetroLacrosse honored the legacy of Adrianna Duffy at their season closing event at Franklin Field last month.
Duffy was a longtime player in the league who passed away in 2009. Established in 2000 for city youth ... Read more.
The newest class of Operation Exit, Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s intensive career preparation program for at-risk young adults, has achieved a high-water mark of success for the program.
On Wednesday evening, Mayor ... Read more.
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