Author talk at JustBook-ish features Ibram X. Kendi on Sept. 15
September 11, 2026
SCORE Boston hosted a free sports day at Garvey Park last Sunday (Aug. 9) and 35 or so girls ages 6 to 14 accepted the invitation to play hockey, lacrosse, and rugby alongside Boston-based Olympian and professional athletes.
The 4th-generation company now services hundreds of independent customers, many of them family-owned businesses, fiber artists and small wool-processing mills.
Sen. Nick Collins faces a challenge from Wu-backed candidate Latoya Gayle to hold the First Suffolk seat in the State Senate.
US Rep. Ayanna Pressley visited Dorchester’s First Parish Church this afternoon (Aug. 12) to join with Boston neighborhood activists to call for a end to the war in Iran and to re-direct defense spending to domestic needs she says have been neglected under the Trump administration.
The Ward 13 Democratic Committee will host a virtual candidate forum on Aug. 20 for voters in the First Suffolk State Senate district.
Bethel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church celebrated the completion of a 20-year mission to convert the former St. Leo’s campus into its own expansive service center and worship space.
The survey highlighted long-standing racial wealth gaps.
Gov. Maura Healey said Massachusetts will stay on a separate vaccination course.
All three candidates for the Suffolk County district attorney’s seat came out swinging in the first, and most likely only, forum for the race, held at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury on Aug. 6.
A key goal is to combat drug overdoses with Narcan (Naloxone) nasal sprays, which are effective in reducing the effects of an ongoing OD.
Mayor Michelle Wu visited the Meeting House Hill fire station last week with BFD Commissioner Rodney Marshall to promote the a new reading program for kids.
Dorchester Park, a gem in the necklace that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, should not be marred by the construction of eight-story buildings within it, says Carole Mooney.
This year, the early vote options start on Sat. Aug. 22 and run through Friday, Aug. 28. Any registered Boston voter can vote at any of the city’s 17 early-voting locations.
Several political and community leaders with ties to Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan have been named to a series of advisory councils formed by US Sen. Ed Markey’s re-election campaign.