The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a three-story, ten-unit rear addition to an existing Second Empire-style building at 24 Mt. Everett St. in Dorchester with 16 parking spaces that neighbors railed against when it was first proposed as a four-story, 16-unit addition with no parking a couple years ago.
Dorchester native Arlene Baldwin hosted an event last Saturday (Sept. 19) at City Hall where Black women talked about their experiences with alopecia, hair loss, and wigs.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously approved a developer’s plans to build a five-story, 24-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot filled with trees and ledge between the Cedar Grove Cemetery and Granite Avenue.
If police criminalists had found three gunshot residue particles on Keith Williams after Dawnn Jaffier crumpled to the street, a fatal gunshot wound to her head during the 2014 J’Ouvert parade, that would have been enough for prosecutors to use during Williams’s murder trial. But the expert found just two, prosecutors failed to explain to the jury why that was still enough proof of Williams’s guilt and so Williams deserves a new trial, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday.
For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 ordinance requiring them to do so.
The governor blamed President Donald Trump for rising gas prices, citing the U.S. war with Iran.
On Monday afternoon this week (Sept. 21), the Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee and members of the UMass Boston facilities team observed the 40th anniversary of its installation on a plot of waterfront land owned by UMass Boston along Morrissey Boulevard.
English High School alumni will gather at Dorchester’s Florian Hall next month for an all-class reunion that will offer a special tribute to two graduates who served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
A proposal to build 20 new condos at 2062 Dorchester Ave. won approval from the Boston Planning Department board on Sept. 17.
Mayor Michelle Wu and other city officials discussed their latest approach to managing traffic and parking in and around Franklin Park and White Stadium at a public meeting in Roxbury on Tuesday evening.
The “Light Bearer” award was presented at a recent event to support the Maura Wilkins Foundation.
Flanked by law enforcement officials, Gov. Maura Healey last Thursday (Sept. 10) accepted a slew of endorsements from public safety-aligned organizations in her bid for reelection.
The Boston Home on Dorchester Avenue took first place in the 30th annual Mayor’s Garden Contest last month – piggybacking on their third place finish last year and qualifying them for the “Hall of Fame” next year.
The home, which primarily serves adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), won in the ‘Storefront, Organization, or Main Street District’ category and was happy to celebrate this month at the home. Liz Flanagan, of The Boston Home, claimed their prize at a gala event on Aug. 17 with Mayor Michelle Wu.
Victoria Williams, who died on Sept. 7 at age 78, will be honored posthumously with a lifetime achievement award at Rogerson Communities’ Welcome Home Gala next month.
