Travel through Boston by air and by sea surged to new heights over the past 12 months, setting a pair of new records at facilities overseen by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
After a steady June, Logan Airport...
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Kate Walsh oversaw Carney closing; Undersecretary will assume the helm
After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, ... Read more.
The Codman Square Health Center is having community discussions about installing a vending machine at their Codman Square campus that would dispense the drug Narcan, an over-the-counter nasal spray as of 2023 that is ... Read more.
The ballot order has been determined for the city’s upcoming preliminary election for mayor, citywide city council, and in select district seats. The sequence is decided by a lottery conducted in public at the Election ... Read more.
The Russell Auditorium/Carver Den function hall on Talbot Avenue has applied for a full entertainment license with a 2 a.m. closing hour. If approved, the permit would allow for music, DJs, dancing and the like for a ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal last Tuesday (July 8) approved a developer’s plans for a 6-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square.
... Read more.Overall crime is down by 5 percent so far this year on the Area C-11 police district that covers much of eastern Dorchester, according to the Boston Police Department, but larcenies are on the rise, many of them driven by ... Read more.
In the latest episode of DotLife podcast, host Erin Caldwell joins Columbia-Savin Hill Civic President Bill Walczak on his roof at the tippy top of Savin Hill to discuss the rich history of the neighborhood, notable names ... Read more.
Have you seen Calliope?
This 4-and-a-half year old dilute calico cat is mostly white with orange and grey patches and disappeared from Codman Hill Avenue on July 1, one day after her family moved there from ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 15 Corwin St. around 5:40 p.m. on Saturday for what turned into a three-alarm fire.
The Boston Fire Department reports all seven residents of the two-family home safely evacuated. ... Read more.
Recent headlines around crypto currencies have drawn a lot of attention. Some projects have demonstrated significant productivity and innovation, while others are associated with questionable "Meme coins" and marketing ... Read more.
Uphams Corner classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan will be the featured performer tomorrow at the Boston Public Library’s Copley Branch Concert in ... Read more.
Overall crime is down by 5 percent so far this year on the Area C-11 police district that covers much of eastern Dorchester. But, larcenies are on the rise, much of driven by a specific crime: shoplifting.
Capt. ... Read more.
When the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset River Watershed Association (NepRWA) released its 2024 water quality report card grades for Boston’s urban rivers last month, the Neponset was assigned a B+ with a score of 82.3 ... Read more.
The Rev. Pearline James and her husband Evan immigrated to Boston from Jamaica in 1971 as part of an early wave of Jamaican arrivals in the city. They were the first to purchase a home on Mattapan’s Malta Street on the ... Read more.
Steve Poftak, a onetime CEO and general manager of the MBTA from January 2019 to January 2023, has been selected as the next CEO and president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, the independent, non-partisan group ... Read more.
Reeling in the wake of passage of Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill on our nation’s 249th birthday, I am taking a long, sad look at the current Republican party.
Founded by Abraham Lincoln and others fighting to bring ... Read more.
It’s hard to imagine a worse time for the wheels of justice to grind to a halt in local courtrooms. But, that’s exactly what’s happening this week as a work stoppage among poorly paid public defenders comes to a troubling ... Read more.
After moving to Dorchester from Haiti in the spring of 2023, Keren “Nickey” Cezar enrolled at Roxbury Community College (RCC) to pursue a degree in theater arts. During her time at RCC, Cezar worked in the Student ... Read more.
Plans for redeveloping a key Fields Corner building at 1444-1446 Dorchester Ave. – the O’Hearn-Dorchester Music Hall building that is now home to the 02122 branch of the United States Postal Service – were featured for ... Read more.
A virtual public meeting to discuss a proposed redevelopment at 1028-1032 Dorchester Ave. will be held virtually next Tuesday (July 15) at 6 p.m. See bostonplans.org/1028DorchesterAve for more info.
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The man who fatally shot a Codman Square gas station attendant during an armed robbery on Oct. 6, 2018, received a life sentence without parole on June 30 in a Boston courtroom on June 30.
Jerron Perry, 33, of ... Read more.
Paul Downey, a former Boston Police sergeant, was arraigned last week in Dorchester Municipal Court on child rape charges that he paid to have sex with a 14-year-old in a South Bay Mall parking lot. WCVB reports Downey ... Read more.
On the same day that Donald Trump signed a landmark domestic policy bill that will reshape national and state finances for years to come, Gov. Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a companion ... Read more.
Calling for local sports fans and investors to target the Connecticut Sun, a Boston City Council member says his "very excited" colleagues will "absolutely" approve his resolution Wednesday to support the presence of a ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a developer's plans for a six-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square.
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