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Joel Richards scored a plum endorsement today in the contest to succeed Andrea Campbell as the city councillor in District 4. The Boston Teachers Union. The Boston Teachers Union — which counts more than 10,000 men and ... Read more.
A five-year study by the Boston Foundation makes the case that housing instability threatens the health of low-income Boston area residents.
The Boston Foundation’s Health Starts at Home initiative began in 2016, ... Read more.
When used with intention and meditation, psychedelic plants have proven healing properties. A Johns Hopkins study from last year found them four times more effective at treating depression than pharmaceutical medication. ... Read more.
State Rep. Liz Miranda, who represents parts of Dorchester and Roxbury in the Legislature’s Fifth Suffolk district, gave the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, last Friday. Among the graduates from ... Read more.
The Irish know something about colonialism. Long before there was a British Empire on which “the sun never set,” Ireland was the testing ground for English conquest and confiscating land from the natives. It is ... Read more.
Amid the suddenly open Boston mayoral race and the precipitous decline in Covid-19 cases, a long-awaited decision on Beacon Hill about whether Boston residents will have a seat at the table on major public transportation ... Read more.
Dorchester native Caroline Powers has been named senior vice-president for External Affairs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She will start on June 21.
Powers joins Dana-Farber from the American Cancer Society ... Read more.
Marvin Le of Dorchester, a junior at BC High, was part of a team of students that won the top prize in the school’s inaugural Shields Innovation Challenge, aimed at prompting entrepreneurial thinking.
Le’s winning ... Read more.
After an Orange Line derailment first revealed an unusual problem within the MBTA’s newest subway cars, officials said on Monday that they now believe that aging infrastructure along the tracks also contributed to the ... Read more.
Dan Rea, the reporter and broadcaster best known for his WBZ radio show NightSide, has made a “substantial” gift to UMass Boston to “renovate and endow the weight room” in the Clark Athletic Center. Rea is a 1970 graduate ... Read more.
Last week Dorchester Art Project announced the launch of “Tiny DAP Concerts,” a new intimate, virtual showcase inspired by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts that will look to highlight Greater Boston artists who are rising the ... Read more.
Oswald Neptune’s troop of workers hits the streets of Mattapan and Hyde Park every weekday, pairing off for door-to-door canvassing along predetermined routes and visibility standouts in Mattapan Square and inside ... Read more.
Cristo Rey Valedictorian Alanna Perez spent the final hours of 2020, a “brutal” year, on the phone in the Dominican Republic working with a school counselor to finalize her college applications.
She was also ... Read more.
Construction is underway on a high-profile lot in the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood primed to become home to Boston’s only food co-op, which would occupy the ground floor commercial space of a four-story affordable housing ... Read more.
Bill Forry, the editor and publisher of our Dorchester Reporter, posed the following question to readers regarding the mayoral campaign: “What do you want to know from this current crop of candidates?”
I have a few ... Read more.
Little Leaguers from several Boston neighborhoods stepped up to the plate at Garvey Park in Neponset on June 6 for this year’s much-anticipated Opening Day for the Martin Richard Challenger baseball division, a star- ... Read more.
Lorna Rivera resigned from Boston’s school last Friday after critical text messages she exchanged with another committee member were made public.
According the Boston Globe, Rivera, a sociologist, and Alexandra ... Read more.
18-year-old Mikey Milano of Dorchester, a member at local non-profit My Brother's Keeper (MBK617), sang the national anthem on May 28 at Fenway Park as the Red Sox played the Miami Marlins.
Milano, who is pursuing ... Read more.
On Monday, the city’s acting mayor, Kim Janey, fired the now-former Police Commissioner Dennis White following a ... Read more.
“Friday Evenings on the Lawn,” a new summer community music and arts series hosted by First Parish Church and sponsored jointly by Fields Corner and Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets, will kick off this Friday, June 11, from 6 ... Read more.
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