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In an effort to enhance attention to pedestrian safety at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, Fields Corner Main Street (FCMS), one of the city’s 20 Main Street organizations, is developing a mural to...
Read more.In an effort to enhance attention to pedestrian safety at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, Fields Corner Main Street (FCMS), one of the city’s 20 Main Street organizations, is developing a mural to...
Read more.The City Council approved a labor agreement reached between the Wu administration and the city’s firefighters union, Local 718. The sign-off, which came at Wednesday’s Council meeting and sent the agreement to Mayor Wu’s ... Read more.
On Saturday, Sept. 30 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. community members are invited to join members of the Mary Eliza Project at the Lower Mills Branch of the Boston Public Library to learn about the ongoing transcription of ... Read more.
In partnership with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and Franklin Park Zoo, “Blue Shark Garden” by Aquinnah Wampanoag artist and marine scientist Elizabeth James-Perry opened at Franklin Park this month.
The ... Read more.
State environmental leaders assembled on Wales Street last week to celebrate the third day of Climate Week and highlight a supportive housing build-out that received $200,000 in state funding for the installation of a ... Read more.
The Boston Home’s annual Resident Art Show celebrated the creativity and talent of the Home’s residents, with work by 25 artists on exhibit during an evening event on Sept. 14.
The Boston Home, located at the ... Read more.
Watching John Dunlap, Jr. conduct business at his Dorchester Used Bicycle and Thrift Shop these days is seeing poetry in motion.
While anything can happen on any given day at his Dot Ave storefront – conversations ... Read more.
The attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 united millions of Americans with the goal of winning a world war that had been ongoing for two years in Europe and Asia. Hundreds of millions of words about wartime ... Read more.
The plaza that is home to Lambert’s Rainbow Market last week sold for $10 million in a transaction guaranteeing that the family-owned business, known for its to-go meals and deli meats, among other items, will remain in ... Read more.
With the agency struggling to improve subway service and facing heightened scrutiny from federal regulators, MBTA General Manager Phil Eng reshaped the T’s management hierarchy last Friday (Sept. 22).
Eng said the ... Read more.
Hunter Biden has long been a burden on his family. His father has been a loyal, perhaps over-indulgent, parent. Understandably so, given the loss of his wife and daughter in a motor vehicle accident years ago and the more ... Read more.
When Joe Leary passed away last week at the age of 90, The Reporter family lost a longtime friend and contributor. Raised in Milton, the “Double Eagle” (BC High and Boston College) grad had a 30-year career as an ... Read more.
A US Postal Service letter carrier was robbed but uninjured along his route just before noon last Friday (Sept. 22) near Codman Square, according to Boston Police and Postal Inspection Service officials, who are ... Read more.
A developer that that helped preserve artist studios in an old industrial building on Humphreys Street filed plans Friday to build a 21-unit condo building nearby in which all the units would be sold to people making no ... Read more.
After more than a year of delays, construction work has started on a project that will entirely remake the upper and lower portions of the scenic Mother’s Rest Four Corners Park on Washington Street.
Planning for ... Read more.
Congressman Stephen F. Lynch, who represents South Boston and Dorchester as well as swaths of the South Shore, will host an information session at Braintree Town Hall on Sun., Oct. 1, for all high school students ... Read more.
Decades ago, Christiana Telesford could be found on the pristine Grand Anse Beach in Grenada. These days, the 100-year-old native of Grenada is still making her rounds and keeping active in Dorchester.
The ... Read more.
The Jones Hill Association (JHA) has been working with St. Mary’s Center on its proposed major renovation and new construction project for the past several months, and so far, leaders at JHA said, the concept has been ... Read more.
When Dorchester rapper kei took the stage at the Forward Future Festival in 2021, she was pretty nervous. She’d never performed in front of a crowd before and her debut project, “baby steps,” was still new at the time. ... Read more.
To the Editor:
As Maddie Murphy’s K1 teacher at the Perry School, I still have goosebumps after reading in your Sept. 7 edition about her journey through the many elimination rounds to find herself among a small ... Read more.
The Dorchester-based nonprofit Louis D. Brown Peace Institute (LDBPI) last week received a $100,000 grant from an arm of the gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety, which touts its 700,000 donors across ... Read more.
The Boston Municipal Research Bureau regularly offers analysis and updates on city finances. The bureau, an independent and business-backed organization, last week released a memo on the fiscal 2024 budget, which went ... Read more.
In an era marked by alarming inequality, economic growth that lacks a focus on inclusion exacerbates the problem. This is especially true in the context of urban development projects. Success requires a steadfast ... Read more.
Professional women’s soccer is set to return to Boston, as an all-female ownership group has won expansion rights. The group, Boston Unity Soccer Partners (BUSC), is working with city officials to renovate the George R. ... Read more.
The MBTA and Keolis, which operates the commuter rail system, recently released their fall/winter schedule this month with a notice that a much-requested additional late-night commuter rail service will be added for most ... Read more.
MBTA officials this week added another pair of partial Red Line weekend closures to a long list of maintenance-fueled disruptions planned for October.
Shuttle buses will replace Red Line service between Broadway ... Read more.
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