Author talk at JustBook-ish features Ibram X. Kendi on Sept. 15
September 11, 2026
Hundreds gathered in Morningstar Baptist Church on Thursday evening (Sept. 10) to review the latest designs of a Blue Hill Avenue infrastructure plan that would bring center-running bus lanes to the six-mile thoroughfare, along with additional parking, safer crosswalks, and other improved amenities in a major public works project now slated to begin in 2028.
A Clam Point man who was due to board a doomed United Airlines flight to Los Angeles Tuesday morning overslept and missed the flight by just minutes.
A look back at the Reporter’s coverage on the week of Sept. 11 , 2001.
BMC is facing growing instability driven by burnout and turnover of nursing staff, say nurses Julia Doherty and Lisa Annunziata
For ten years now, David Higgins has been slowly building single-family homes on a three-quarter-acre parcel he owns on Plain Street in Dorchester. On Tuesday, the Zoning Board of Appeal rejected his latest, for what he says would be the seventh and final house on the lot, after which he says he would sell the houses as condos, since they all share common driveways and other facilities.
Merchants in a newly formed group in Codman Square say that while they are trying to beautify the shopping district, they are running head-on into heavy street construction that seems endless.
The Codman Square Health Center commemorated International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31 with a ceremony at a newly installed vending machine outside its facility on Washington Street that dispenses free items such as Naloxone (known as Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal nasal spray), hygiene kits, socks, snacks, and water to those who might need them.
Thousands of union members turned out in Boston’s Back Bay on Monday morning for a Labor Day parade and rally in Copley Square. Traditionally, union officials placed more focus on the annual Labor Day breakfast, a formal affair that typically takes place at the Park Plaza Hotel and features speeches from elected officials, while SEIU locals, which represent security guards, janitors and other service workers, have taken to the streets to bring attention to strikes and ongoing labor disputes.
A three-part series examining the history and legacy of redlining, blockbusting, busing, and desegregation in Boston will begin next week in Codman Square.
Daniel Adams, a Dorchester resident and human rights officer at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, has been inducted into the Tenet Healthcare Heroes Hall of Fame.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 School in Dorchester hosted Dr. Christina Grant, a board member of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), as the keynote speaker for its teacher and staff back-to-school day on Aug. 31.
Last Wednesday (Sept 2.) Rita Steele and her mother, Hilarie Jackson, crammed into the Gilman Chapel at Cedar Grove Cemetery with about 100 other observers and listened closely as the names of 133 Black women interred beneath two vague markers in the burial ground were read out loud. As the 35th name was announced, “Sarah Smith,” the two women cheered.
When Fields Corner’s Taina Mair was selected as the 14th pick in the first round of the 2026 WNBA draft last April, she reminded her Boston neighbors that if you work hard enough, your dreams can take you anywhere.
The fourth annual Pleasant Street Community block party took place last Saturday (Sept. 5) bringing together hundreds of neighbors from Columbia- Savin Hill, Uphams Corner, Jones Hill, and the Polish Triangle.