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The City of Boston’s 2015 plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious crashes by 2030 requires more funding and a more focused effort to redesign “hot spots,” or areas where there have been a high number of crashes, ... Read more.
The pursuit of writing in its many aspects is alive and very well at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester’s Grove Hall neighborhood where the non-profit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring program has set up shop ... Read more.
When you’re the music director for “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” says Seamus Egan, Christmas comes early. “Actually,” he quips, “Christmas tends to last all year.”
Egan is finishing up his first decade overseeing ... Read more.
Members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association planning committee like the design but worry about the density of a 21-unit building proposal that would replace the Scally & Trayers Funeral Home on Pleasant ... Read more.
The long awaited opening of UMass Boston’s University Hall Theatre took place Thursday, as Bat Boy: The Musical began a seven-performance run. The cult-classic, rock and roll fueled horror-inspired comic journey is ripped ... Read more.
In the fall of 2001, BC High introduced the McElroy Scholars Program in an effort to provide at-risk students with models of success and the extra tools needed to excel academically, which, it was hoped, would in turn ... Read more.
Members of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) are ramping up their campaign to secure free MBTA bus passes for thousands of Boston Public School students who now walk to school.
Sparked by fears ... Read more.
It was breezy on the morning of Dec. 3 as a crowd led by city officials brandishing megaphones set off on an excursion eastward down Columbia Road from Franklin Park to Moakley Park in South Boston.
The tour’s aim ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday approved a six-story, 40-unit condo building at 1258-1272 Massachusetts Ave., in what is now a car lot next to the new Dorchester Brewing Co.
Developer Douglas ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday for what turned into a two-alarm fire in a three decker at 107 Ellington St. that caused an estimated $250,000 in damage, the Boston Fire Department reports. ... Read more.
Boston Police have teamed up with kids and teens from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester to ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man in a car was shot around 12:10 a.m. on Saturday at Tileston and Rosemont streets. He managed to drive away, but crashed into a house a few blocks away at River and Alpine streets ... Read more.
University of Massachusetts-Boston faculty members and union representatives on Wednesday urged a UMass Board of Trustees committee to help the Boston campus manage a budget deficit they said is threatening the campus's ... Read more.
A dilapidated house that once loomed ominously on the edge of the Boys and Girls Clubs campus at 20 Deer St. was demolished on Monday morning. The two-family dwelling house— which had sat vacant for the last 20 years— was ... Read more.
Residents in several of Boston’s historic houses are sounding alarms over new around-the-clock activity at the Verizon Fios facility on Enterprise Street bordering the Dorchester Historical Society (DHS) properties along ... Read more.
After parents, community members, and public education advocates had urged state education officials to intervene in the city’s plan to close the Mattahunt Elementary School, the Board of Elementary and Secondary ... Read more.
Roughly a dozen community activists and uniformed C-11 police officers knocked on doors and talked to neighbors in the St. Mark’s Area about some of the recent acts of violence in the community as part of a peace walk on ... Read more.
The New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City program will stage the world premiere of “Running in Stillness,” a dance-theatre performance by Roxbury’s Marsha Parrilla and Danza Orgánica this weekend in Dudley ... Read more.
Dorchester native and Boston City Singers alumna Gillian Chase has been awarded a Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship to further her studies at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The scholarship is awarded ... Read more.
Despite a strong economy and booming population growth, high costs of living and low rates of housing production in Greater Boston are disproportionately impacting those already living in poverty, according to a Boston ... Read more.
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