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So, is it actually Dot Day on Sunday without the namesake parade? Our answer: Of course! This weekend, many of us will observe the high holiday in backyard gatherings or by patronizing our favorite Dot eateries.
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Acting Mayor Kim Janey joined union leaders under the blue awning of the Boston Teachers Union for a diaper donation drive on Wednesday, cooling off with an ice cream bar and thanking community childcare workers for doing ... Read more.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) unveiled a mural at the Mattapan Teen Center on May 14 with a crew of ten student-artists flooding Hazelton Street with technicolor.
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Last week, Mayor Kim Janey announced the Joy Agenda, a city-wide initiative that will feature a number of job opportunities for creatives, including the 2021 Transformative Public Art Program, which is now accepting ... Read more.
The Greater Boston Labor Council on Friday promoted its donation of a new freezer to a Mattapan food pantry. According to the council, Shirley’s Pantry “serves a community with one of the highest rates of food insecurity ... Read more.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party will hold an in-person platform convention this September in Lowell. Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Gus Bickford sent an email to state committee members last Thursday outlining ... Read more.
Boston’s mayoral candidates discussed labor issues – including affordable housing, universal childcare, and reviving Boston’s hospitality industry – during a mayoral forum hosted by the Greater Boston Labor Council last ... Read more.
With ridership creeping up to its highest levels since the pandemic began, the MBTA will boost frequency on its subway system and more than two dozen bus routes next month, officials announced on Monday.
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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine was overwhelmingly successful at preventing serious infection in adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, the company announced Tuesday, targeting early June to seek authorization for ... Read more.
Wesley Ward didn’t know much about tennis before he first stepped on the courts at Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center ten years ago. Fast forward a decade, and the 20-year-old Mattapan native is headed to ... Read more.
The six candidates running for mayor of Boston met for the second time this week in a forum hosted by the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department Wednesday where they honed in on criminal justice, substance abuse disorder, ... Read more.
The metallic rush of steel percussion – the instrumentation of Hyde Park’s Branches Steel Orchestra – swelled as hundreds of people descended on Walker Playground on Tuesday evening for the final leg of the March for ... Read more.
The Boston Home on Dorchester Avenue has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation to support two of its core programs, the B.Fit! day program and the Wheelchair Enhancement Center. The Boston Home, an ... Read more.
It has been a year of uncertainty, but as the days grow longer and warmer, vaccinations continue and the number of Covid-19 cases trend in the right direction, there is a sense of hope on the horizon. As this time of ... Read more.
On June 21, 1974, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity issued his finding that Boston’s schools were segregated by the actions of the Boston School Committee. He ordered busing as a remedy beginning that September.
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Warmer weather has brought good news in Boston’s fight against the pandemic. Across our city, Covid-19 cases have dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year. And from Roxbury to Roslindale, East Boston to West ... Read more.
In 2020, a Black community in Massachusetts that was on the rise got hit with increased public health, economic, and social challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic and racial reckoning during the summer. These events ... Read more.
The relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions this weekend includes ending many restrictions at Dorchester’s Catholic churches. St. Gregory’s pastor, Rev. Jack Ahern, shared a flyer describing the “full opening protocols” for ... Read more.
Sixteen young men from Dorchester are now alumni of Boston College High School after a graduation ceremony on the Morrissey Boulevard campus last Saturday that drew more than 2,000 members of the BC High community.
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