Mayor Wu and the Boston City Council clinched a budget agreement for FY 2026 with a June 9 signing event highlighting restraint, responsiveness, and efficiency.
The original operating budget filed by the mayor...
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A man was shot multiple times on Standard Street in Mattapan on Wednesday evening (June 11), according to Boston Police, who are investigating the incident this week.
According to a BPD report, the unnamed victim ... Read more.
To the Editor:
As a lifelong Boston resident, a community organizer, and executive director of By Believe Inspire Repeat Tree House (BBIRTH), I’ve spent my life fighting for equity, safety, and opportunity in ... Read more.
To the Editor:
My name is Natalie Juba-Sutherland and I am a long time resident of Roxbury —a homeowner, actually, and a Boston resident for 25 years. I am a first-generation immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago. I ... Read more.
To the Editor:
I’m a father, husband, immigrant, and proud graduate of Boston Public Schools. My story is rooted in the values, challenges, and resilience that define District 5. Like many in our community, I know ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Edwyn Shoemaker is right that ranked choice would give Boston voters more options and help rebuild trust (“Opinion: Ranked Choice— A better way to vote,” May 28). The Massachusetts Legislature should ... Read more.
As I approach the end of life, I continue to wrestle with the ultimate dilemma. What does it all mean? Is there a design and purpose to existence or is it all the result of a cataclysmic explosion, giving rise to a ... Read more.
Rockland Trust has launched its 17th annual Reading Makes Cent$ program, a reading and financial literacy initiative for students across the bank’s network of 124 branches throughout Massachusetts. Running through Aug. 31 ... Read more.
The largest building in New England will officially be renamed next month in honor of the late Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, some eight months after the Legislature ordered the change.
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Differences aired at Tuesday hearing in Mattapan Square
City officials and their key supporters reiterated their support this week for the advance of plans for a controversial center bus lane on ... Read more.
Days after President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops in California to respond to immigration enforcement protests, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey said he would oppose any similar tactics in Massachusetts, which has ... Read more.
Mattapan meeting set for 4-7 at veterans’ post
A city council oversight hearing planned for Tuesday afternoon (June 10) in Mattapan Square will offer a fresh update on the long-anticipated ... Read more.
Citing empty offices, the durability of remote work and the impacts of persistently high interest rates, a new report paints a dire picture of commercial real estate in Boston, with potentially negative consequences for ... Read more.
Boston Police continue to investigate a shots fired incident on Cushing Avenue in Uphams Corner that took place just after 9 p.m. on Wed., June 4, with multiple rounds hitting a home on the street.
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Mattapan boasts many different amenities, but to date it hasn’t had its own road race. That’s changing this summer with a 5k walk and run in the works for Sat., Aug 9.
A group of community organizations, including ... Read more.
Ali’s Roti Restaurant has been serving Indian-Caribbean dishes in Mattapan for 35 years while Boulevard Cleaners has been providing laundry services in the neighborhood for 60 years.
Now the two businesses, each ... Read more.
If grit and determination could be found in a sandwich, it would be discovered inside every Banh Mi sandwich at Ba Le Restaurant on Dorchester Avenue.
The shop, led successfully for almost 30 years now by Jennifer ... Read more.
As educators, giving our students what they need to thrive at Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) and Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester is why we get up in the morning. Over the years, doing so has ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Here’s something I’d bet most people would agree with: the status quo in Washington is not working.
Since announcing my candidacy as a Democrat for Congress in the Eighth District three weeks ... Read more.
State Sen. Nick Collins wants UMass Boston’s nursing school to consider re-using part of the abandoned Carney Hospital property in Dorchester as a satellite campus. He has filed an amendment to a state budget bill that ... Read more.
Even as a teenager, Preston Settles was known for his kindness and his knack for befriending anyone in any circumstance. This month, three years after his death from a sudden cardiac arrest while playing basketball, he ... Read more.
Artists, curators and guests gathered last Thursday (May 29) at an Ashmont gift shop and gallery to mark the opening of a show featuring pieces inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower.”
“Pages ... Read more.
Dorchfest returned to the Ashmont-Adams section of the neighborhood for a fourth season last Saturday (May 31) with more than 50 bands and performers of diverse musical genres taking “the stage” on porches, sidewalks, and ... Read more.
Residents and businesses in Uphams Corner are celebrating this month after succeeding in a years-long effort to get repairs made to the brick sidewalks in the business district that critics say have become treacherous in ... Read more.
A Waltham company plans to transform a landmark property at the crossroads of Adams Street and Dot Ave in Fields Corner, retaining space for the existing US Post Office for 02122 and adding a mix of new construction. ... Read more.
An investigation by the Norfolk County medical examiner and the State Police is underway after the body of a 21-year-old woman was found in a wooded area along Central Avenue in Milton on Sunday morning (June 1).
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