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The Dorchester Holiday Celebration Committee and Mayor Michelle Wu ushered in the Christmas season with a barrage of nine holiday tree lightings throughout the neighborhood last Saturday (Nov. 25) from Port Norfolk to ... Read more.
When B-3 police officer Daniel Oliveira arrived at a home on Ellington Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, the scene couldn’t have been more intense. A two-year-old boy was lying unresponsive on the bed, having been found ... Read more.
Three additional public meetings planned over coming months
A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related ... Read more.
A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related infrastructure will convene for its first meeting this evening, more than one year after a ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to Ellington Street for what turned into a six-alarm fire at 19 and 21 Ellington Saturday afternoon.
The Boston Fire Department ... Read more.
Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.”
The term is used by public policy ... Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Thursday (Nov. 16) overturned a man’s first-degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Dantley Leonard on Nov. 12, 2016, while Leonard was helping a friend’s girlfriend move ... Read more.
Four educators who work in Dorchester or Mattapan schools were cited for their service at an awards program held in the Seaport district last week.
The honorees included Tanisha Milton, Grade 8 History at ... Read more.
Nearly three years after the Legislature tasked a panel with recommending changes to the state seal and motto, the group prepared to disband last week by asking to shift its unfinished work onto Secretary William Galvin’s ... Read more.
Friends and family from across the city gathered in Roxbury last Saturday to memorialize Terrence Clarke, the basketball phenom and Dorchester native who died in 2021 at age 19 in a car accident in Los Angeles, where he ... Read more.
“You vote in MA? Then sign this ballot petition!”
We’ve all been stopped outside the grocery store to sign petitions to get issues on the 2024 ballot. And we’ve been told that they all do good things for ordinary ... Read more.
Rebuilding Together Boston announced last month that Dorchester homeowner Rosalind (Roz) Pendleton was named winner of the Patty R. Johnson Community Builder Award by the national organization during its annual meeting in ... Read more.
The Loop at Mattapan Station has won the Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award from the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association. The award recognizes housing initiatives ... Read more.
The National Center of Afro-American Artists will offer its seasonal production of Langston Hughes’s “Black Nativity” at the Paramount Center in Boston, starting on Dec. 2 and continuing through Dec. 18.
With a ... Read more.
MBTA officials have long been sounding the alarm about the poor state of the system’s infrastructure and lamenting years of disinvestment, and last week they put an eye-watering new price tag on the myriad issues that ... Read more.
Firefighters, who have to feed themselves at their fire houses day in-and-day-out, are well known for their culinary skills. But what about police officers? Can the cops hold their own in the kitchen?
That was the ... Read more.
6:15 a.m. - Rise and attempt to shine. Find way to kitchen without falling over sleeping animals on the dark, narrow, back stairs. Remove cold, dead fowl from refrigerator and give it a sponge bath, remembering to remove ... Read more.
VietAID in Fields Corner held a ribbon cutting last Friday (Nov. 17) for their completely renovated and expanded outdoor play space. The Au Co Preschool is the state’s only bi-lingual, bi-cultural Vietnamese early ... Read more.
The Campaign for Catholic Schools (CCS) has announced a $37,000 grant from the Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation toward a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) set to be offered this fall at ... Read more.
Fairmount Line ridership jumped by nearly 35 percent during last month’s Red Line diversion on the Ashmont branch and Mattapan trolley, according to the MBTA and Keolis, the company that runs the commuter rail.
... Read more.
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