

Nicholas Ariniello, Boston’s departing assessing commissioner. Courtesy photo

Giovanni ‘Gio’ Bala, 22, shot dead in a municipal parking lot on Bowdoin Street early last Friday (May 22). Courtesy photo

Z. Andy Warot salutes during the National Anthem while his granddaughter, Aniela Warot, places her hand over her heart. Andy served in the US Army during Vietnam shortly after immigrating from Poland. Seth Daniel photo

Bobby ‘BK’ Kilduff called a hero, and a ‘Jake’s Jake’

A person was shot to death last night on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.

Small landlords spoke out against the effects of rent control on smaller investors during a State House event last week.

Last Saturday (May 16), the annual yard sale celebrated 46 years of dozens of locations selling or giving away unwanted items for bargain prices – with some bartering occasionally necessary.

Eighth graders at the Conservatory Lab Charter School (CLCS) used their waning days at the Columbia Road school to blend music with mission in hosting the first-ever Legacy Concert to raise money for Mattapan’s Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI).
Two men who’d just gotten out of a Dorchester court hearing on gun charges got into a brawl with two other men and a teenager while still in the courthouse Wednesday morning.

A popular city-funded street festival program will go forward this season, but without an event on Dot Ave.

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted Boston Police officer Nicholas O’Malley, 34, on a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the March 11 shooting death of Stephenson King Jr., 39, of Dorchester.

The event raised $400,000 to support BGCD’s youth development programs.

In hopes of finding a way to keep her language alive, Windy Pham took on a personal mission through bilingual children’s books.

On Monday this week, City Councillor Ben Weber, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee for the Boston City Council, sent a memorandum to his colleagues titled “Initial Thoughts from the Chair on How the Amendment Process Could Work.” Following are excerpts from his message.